JOS, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – Suspected Fulani herdsmen attacked a Baptist worship service in north-central Nigeria on Sunday (April 25), killing one Christian, wounding another and abducting five others, sources said. “The Fulani herdsmen came to our village as the church service was going on,” Yakubu Bala of Haske Baptist Church in Manini Tasha village, […]
Christians Killed, Kidnapped in Attack on Worship Service
Two Christian women among university students abducted and slain.
April 27, 2021 By -
Islamists in Pakistan Forcibly ‘Convert’ Catholic, Threaten Family
Muslims say harm will come if mentally challenged man ‘leaves’ Islam.
April 25, 2021 By -
LAHORE, Pakistan (Morning Star News) – Members of an Islamic extremist political party in Pakistan have forcibly converted a mentally challenged Catholic and are pressuring his family to renounce their faith, a relative said. Adnan Bashir, 40, wandered out of his home in Gujjar Khan, Punjab Province on April 14 and inadvertently walked into a sit-in […]
Egypt’s Claim of Killing Suspected Executioners of Christian Suspicious
Government statement raises more questions than it answers.
April 25, 2021 By -
(Morning Star News) – The Egyptian Interior Ministry’s claim – a day after Islamic terrorists released a video showing the execution of a 62-year-old Christian grandfather – that police had killed three of the suspects in the killing seems suspicious at best. The Egyptian government didn’t bother to say on what date the three members […]
Christian Pastor Paraded, Injured, Forced into Hindu Ritual
Church leader in southwest India loses hearing in one ear.
April 20, 2021 By -
NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – Pastor Sanjay Bhandari had taken his wife for a medical check-up earlier this month when they decided to visit her sister in the same area in Karnataka state, southwest India – only to be attacked as they were drinking tea. “While we were still having tea, a few men barged […]
Christians Confined to Home by Police, Tribal Threats in India
Young children among family members beaten.
April 15, 2021 By -
HYDERABAD, India (Morning Star News) – A Christian family in eastern India has been confined to their home for months amid police threats to jail them for “breach of peace” after tribal mob assaults for leaving their native religion, sources said. The mob of tribal followers of native religion gathered police and news media to accompany […]
Mother of Seven Wounded, Loses Family for Becoming Christian
Husband attacks her with dagger, she says.
April 13, 2021 By -
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – A mother of seven children in eastern Uganda suffered serious wounds and is cut off from her family after her husband and other Muslim relatives attacked her on Easter Sunday for putting her faith in Christ, sources said. Salimati Naibira, 37, of Bukoba B village, Mayuge District, lost consciousness after […]
Christian Nurses Arrested under Blasphemy Law in Pakistan
Muslim co-workers instigate attacks against two women, sources say.
April 11, 2021 By -
LAHORE, Pakistan (Morning Star News) – Two Christian nurses complying with a supervisor’s orders to remove stickers at a government hospital were arrested in Faisalabad, Pakistan on Friday (April 9) after a Muslim employee attacked one of them with a knife for the removal of a sticker bearing Koranic verses, sources said. Nurse Mariam Lal and […]
Released from Prison, Algerian Christian Persecuted in Tunisia
Slimane Bouhafs seeks refuge in third country.
April 4, 2021 By -
TIZI-OUZOU, Algeria (Morning Star News) – After Slimane Bouhafs was released from prison in 2018, having served nearly two years for violating Algeria’s blasphemy laws, further persecution drove him to Tunisia. Threats on his life continue there, and he is stuck in legal limbo – missing his daughter’s wedding on Friday (April 2). “My daughter who […]
Christians Forced to ‘Re-Convert’ to Tribal Religion in Central India
Four families assaulted and cut off from water, fields.
April 1, 2021 By -
NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – When followers of tribal deities in central India threatened to kill 10 Christian families if they refused to participate in a “re-conversion” ceremony back to their ancestral religion last month, all but 10 Christians fled the village. “The village gathering threatened to beat us to death if we did not […]
German Pastor Hopeful in Fight to Remain in Turkey
Wave of expulsions leaving many churches without leaders.
March 30, 2021 By -
(Morning Star News) – A German pastor fighting expulsion from Turkey is hopeful that he may be the exception to a wave of foreign Christian leaders expelled from the country as “threats to national security.” Though Turkey’s National Intelligence Organization (MIT) has applied the label to pastor Michael Feulner, he told Morning Star News said […]