LAHORE, Pakistan (Morning Star News) – Police in Pakistan have found a 14-year-old Christian girl who was allegedly kidnapped and forced to marry and convert to Islam, but a court on Thursday (Sept. 23) rejected her family’s attempt to recover her, ruling that Islam gives mental capacity more importance than age in such cases. The Lahore […]
Court Gives Custody of Christian Girl to Alleged Kidnapper
Islam gives mental capacity more importance than age, judge rules.
September 26, 2021 By -
Elderly Christian Woman Beaten for Housing Converts from Islam
Assailant poses as pastor seeking to help the persecuted.
September 23, 2021 By -
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – An 83-year-old Christian widow in eastern Uganda continues to receive hospital treatment two weeks after Islamic extremists, one posing as a pastor, attacked her, sources said. Harriet Namuganza had given refuge to two Christian young men, 18- and 22-year-old converts from Islam, at her four-bedroom home in Iganga, Iganga District […]
Islamic Extremists Charge Christian Woman with Blasphemy
Islamists invited to monitor comments in social media group.
September 21, 2021 By -
LAHORE, Pakistan (Morning Star News) – Blasphemy charges against a Christian preacher in Pakistan were filed not with help from members of the Ahmadiyya religion but only by Islamic extremists, sources said. A source in the Jamaat-e-Ahmadiyya Pakistan said the complainant in the case, Shiraz Farooqi, was not a member of the Ahmadiyya, a religion with […]
Christian Boy, 14, Clinging to Life after Burn Attack in Eastern India
Hindu extremists opposed his faith.
September 13, 2021 By -
(Update: Shortly after midnight on Sept. 26, Nitish Kumar succumbed to his injuries.) NEW DELHI, India (Morning Star News) – A 14-year-old Christian boy in eastern India is fighting for his life a month after suspected Hindu extremists threw flammable liquid on him and set him on fire, sources said. “He is very, very critical,” said […]
Muslim Gunmen in Pakistan Wound at least Four Christians
Pregnant woman said to be among those injured.
September 10, 2021 By -
LAHORE, Pakistan (Morning Star News) – Muslims in an area of Lahore, Pakistan on Monday (Sept. 6) fired high-powered weapons at the homes of Christians, wounding a pregnant woman and at least three other people, sources said. A wounded Christian resident in the Shamsabad locality of Lahore’s Sherakot area, Asif Masih, said he heard shouts followed […]
Muslim Extremists Kill 19-Year-Old Christian in Boat for His Faith
Son of late evangelist targeted in eastern Uganda
September 8, 2021 By -
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – Muslim extremists in eastern Uganda last week boarded a boat in which a young evangelist was fishing and killed him, sources said. Dante Tambika, also known as Patrick, was beaten and strangled to death near Nankodo 3 village, Nankodo Sub-County, on Aug. 31 after he and friends went out on […]
Christians Slain in and near Jos, Nigeria, including 12 Children
Suspected local Muslims kill seven church members, herdsmen kill 33.
September 6, 2021 By -
JOS, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – Fulani herdsmen and suspected local Muslims killed 40 Christians in and near Jos, Nigeria in attacks on Aug. 25 and Aug. 15, sources said. Armed with machetes and guns, herdsmen attacked the predominantly Christian community of Yelwa Zangam, Jos North County on the night of Aug. 25, killing 16 Christians […]
Hard-Line Hindus Beat Christian Unconscious in Tamil Nadu, India
Neighbors attack after seeing church leader visit him.
September 2, 2021 By -
HYDERABAD, India (Morning Star News) – A Christian in southern India’s Tamil Nadu state is in hiding after hard-line Hindu neighbors beat him unconscious with iron rods last month, sources said. Santosh Kumar, 35, left his home on Aug. 1 shortly after a church elder visited him in Kamaraj Nagar, Karur District. A Hindu neighbor who […]
Sexually Assaulted Christian Threatened with Blasphemy Charge, Rights Group Says
Muslim supervisor retaliating for accusation of misconduct, leader says.
August 31, 2021 By -
LAHORE, Pakistan (Morning Star News) – A Muslim supervisor is threatening to file blasphemy charges against a Christian sanitation worker in Pakistan if she refuses to withdraw her sexual assault accusation against him, a human rights leader said. Salima Rani Bibi, a 50-year-old Catholic sweeper in the sanitation branch of the Khanewal Municipal Committee in Punjab […]
Fulani Herdsmen Kill 36 Christians in Kaduna State, Nigeria
Anglican bishop laments government inaction.
August 30, 2021 By -
JOS, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – Fulani herdsmen killed 36 Christians in multiple attacks in Kaduna state, Nigeria this month with impunity, while a church leader complained that authorities arrested only Christians for defending themselves. The attacks from Aug. 4 to Saturday (Aug. 28) on Zangon Kataf, Kaura and Chikun counties took the lives of 17 […]