NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – Police who did nothing to stop a fierce attack on a church service in Uttar Pradesh, India also beat and threatened the Christians while arresting them under false accusations of fraudulent conversions, sources said. A mob of 15 to 20 Hindu extremists earlier this month assaulted men, women and children […]
Police Join Attack on Christians, File False Charges, Sources Say
Officers and Hindu extremists in India threaten church members.
January 26, 2021 By -
Catholic Girl, 12, Likely to Return to Muslim Abductor, Advocates Fear
Courts, police and shelter home in Pakistan subvert justice, sources say.
January 26, 2021 By -
LAHORE, Pakistan (Morning Star News) – Advocates for a 12-year-old Catholic girl found tortured and chained in the home of a Muslim in Pakistan fear he will regain custody after she testified that she converted and wed him of her own free will, sources said. Charges of abduction and rape against 45-year-old Khizar Hayat and two […]
Suspected Fulani Herdsmen Kill Pastor in Southwest Nigeria
Killings continue unchecked in north-central part of country.
January 25, 2021 By -
JOS, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – Suspected Muslim Fulani herdsmen in southwest Nigeria on Jan. 16 shot and killed a pastor who was also a university professor, sources said. Amos Arijesuyo, pastor at Christ Apostolic Church and professor at the Federal University of Technology (FUTA) in Akure, Ondo state, was returning to Akure from Ibadan when […]
Woman Loses Family after Responding to Visions, She Says
Mother of seven in Uganda miscarries after Muslim beats, divorces her.
January 22, 2021 By -
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – Mansitula Buliro was preparing for Muslim evening prayers with her husband in eastern Uganda last week when she had a vision of Christ, she said. The 13-weeks pregnant, 45-year-old mother of seven said that on that evening of Jan. 13 she first heard a loud voice saying “Yeshua,” Aramaic for […]
Kidnapped Christian Professor in Nigeria Released, Sources Say
Cracking top 10 countries with most persecution, Nigeria leads the world in abductions of Christians.
January 21, 2021 By -
JOS, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – A professor at a Christian university has reportedly been released after being kidnapped in Nigeria, which leads the world in abductions of Christians, sources said. John Fatokun, professor of computational mathematics and numerical analysis and deputy vice chancellor of Anchor University in Lagos, was released on Wednesday (Jan. 20) after […]
Hindu Nationalists Incite Animists to Attack Christians in India
Tribal villagers indoctrinated to do the bidding of Hindu extremists.
January 13, 2021 By -
NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – Six Christian families were worshipping in a wood-and-hay structure in eastern India last month when an influential man of wealth wielding an axe led others in and, in coarse language, asked why they had abandoned their tribal religion. Elder Burjo Tadinji of the church in Odisha state’s Chichima village, answered, […]
Pastor, Wife in Uganda Attacked after Imam Becomes Christian
Parents of eight children hospitalized.
January 12, 2021 By -
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – Following the conversion of a Muslim imam to Christianity, mosque leaders in eastern Uganda on Dec. 27 incited a group of Muslims to beat a pastor and his wife and demolish parts of their church building, sources said. Pastor Moses Nabwana’s wife was hospitalized for five days, and the church […]
Muslim Supervisors Kill Two Christian Women in Pakistan
Bodies of sisters abducted in November are found.
January 10, 2021 By -
LAHORE, Pakistan (Morning Star News) – Police in Lahore, Pakistan on Monday (Jan. 4) recovered the bodies of two Christian sisters whose Muslim supervisors pressured them to convert to Islam before killing them, sources said. Mushtaq Masih said that police informed him on Jan. 4 that officers had found the decomposed bodies of his 28-year-old wife, […]
Religious Rights Still Blocked in Sudan, Christian Leaders Say
Confiscated properties, new church construction sought.
January 7, 2021 By -
JUBA, South Sudan (Morning Star News) – Officials in Sudan have shown signs of increasing religious freedom, but Christians say roadblocks remain to constructing churches and regaining confiscated properties since the new transitional government took power in September 2019. Officials in Sudan’s Ministry of Religious Affairs and Endowments have said the process of issuing licenses for […]
Christian Lay Leader Arrested on Blasphemy Charges in Pakistan
Muslim mob threatens to behead him, burn homes.
January 5, 2021 By -
LAHORE, Pakistan (Morning Star News) – A 25-year-old Christian is in police custody in Lahore, Pakistan after he shared another person’s post critical of Islam on his Facebook page, sources said. Hundreds of Muslims converged on Raja Warris’ neighborhood in the Charar area of Lahore on the night of Dec. 26, threatening to behead the outreach […]