NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – Armed Hindu extremists in Madhya Pradesh, India disrupted worship services at two churches on Feb. 7, beat congregation members and pressured police to arrest more than 20 Christians on suspicion of forcible conversion, sources said. Under a new anti-conversion ordinance that came into effect in the state on Jan. 9, […]
Police in India Allow Attack on Churches, then Arrest Christians
Pastor charged under new ‘anti-conversion’ ordinance in Madhya Pradesh.
March 3, 2021 By -
Christian in Pakistan Convicted of ‘Blasphemy’ Released on Bail
Appeal of Christian couple on death row again inexplicably delayed.
March 2, 2021 By -
LAHORE, Pakistan (Morning Star News) – The Lahore High Court has released on bail a 20-year-old Christian two years after his conviction under Pakistan’s blasphemy laws for allegedly posting a sacrilegious photograph on social media, his lawyer said. Incarcerated since his arrest in 2016, Nabeel Masih became the youngest person to be charged with blasphemy in […]
Pastor in India Beaten for Refusing to Help Pay for Tribal Rituals
Police’s solution: hand over money and don’t press charges.
February 28, 2021 By -
HYDERABAD, India (Morning Star News) – Local officials and other tribal animists in a village in eastern India locked council doors, tied up pastor Lakshman Oraon and beat him for more than an hour, but he kept praising God, he said. “I did not shout or cry before them,” Pastor Oraon told Morning Star News. “I […]
Christian Mother in Uganda Hit with Acid for Her Faith, Sources Say
Former Muslim says husband assaulted her.
February 26, 2021 By -
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – A Christian couple visiting a young mother at her home in eastern Uganda last month decided to pray for her before leaving – triggering an immediate response from her Muslim husband. “In the middle of the prayers, my husband walked out and began calling Muslims and mentioning that infidels were […]
Islamist Terrorists in Nigeria Threaten to Execute Pastor
Church leader pleads for rescue from ISWAP (formerly Boko Haram) captors.
February 25, 2021 By -
JOS, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – A pastor abducted from northeastern Nigeria by Islamic extremist militants reportedly says in a video that they will kill him on Wednesday (March 3) if their ransom demands are not met. In the video sent to Nigerian online news outlet Human Angle, pastor Bulus Yikura of the Church of the […]
Herdsmen Kill Church Elder, Abduct Three Other Christians
Muslim Fulani also wound Christian in attack in northwest Nigeria.
February 23, 2021 By -
JOS, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – Fulani herdsmen killed a church elder and abducted three other Christians in northwest Nigeria on Feb. 16, sources said. Muslim Fulani herdsmen shot dead Mati Sani, a 65-year-old elder with the Evangelical Church Winning All (ECWA), in an attack in the village of Kadabuki Dan-Marabu, Kankara County, Katsina state at […]
Christian Leader in Sudan Detained and Beaten, Sources Say
Security personnel suspected of seizing youth leader.
February 22, 2021 By -
JUBA, South Sudan (Morning Star News) – A Christian leader in Sudan was detained and beaten on Friday (Feb. 19) for speaking out against the burning of a church building, sources said. Masked men believed to be national security personnel seized Osama Saeed Kodi, chairman of the Christian Youth Union of Al Jazirah state, on Friday […]
Muslim Fulani Kill 11 Christians, Wound Two, in Nigeria
Four ECWA members slain in Plateau state.
February 19, 2021 By -
JOS, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – Muslim Fulani herdsmen shot four Christians to death on Sunday (Feb. 14) in north-central Nigeria, following the killing of seven other Christians earlier in the month. Muslim Fulani herdsmen ambushed the four members of the Evangelical Church Winning All (ECWA) at about 8 p.m. in Kwall District, Bassa County of […]
Father Recovers Forcibly Converted/Married Daughter
12-year-old girl in Pakistan was found chained in home of ‘husband.’
February 18, 2021 By -
LAHORE, Pakistan (Morning Star News) – Asif Masih beamed with joy to have his 12-year-old daughter back home on Tuesday (Feb. 16) in Faisalabad, Pakistan following her alleged kidnapping and forcible conversion and marriage to a 45-year-old Muslim. “Praise God, for He has answered our prayers and rescued my daughter,” Masih said hours after Faisalabad Session […]
Another Church Building Set Ablaze in Sudan
Hate messages on social media precede arson attack.
February 17, 2021 By -
JUBA, South Sudan (Morning Star News) – The ninth church building in two years to be set ablaze in Sudan was torched last month, sources said. Suspected Muslim extremists set fire to the Sudanese Church of Christ (SCOC) building in the rural Tambul area of Al Jazirah state southeast of Khartoum on Jan. 3, said the […]