NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – A Korean Christian and three nationals of India are in jail in Uttar Pradesh state, accused of fraudulent conversion attempts while distributing food and other aid to people in need due to COVID-19 lockdown, sources said. Under a new “anti-conversion” law that went into effect in Uttar Pradesh state, India […]
First Christian Arrested under New ‘Anti-Conversion’ Law in U.P., India
South Korean jailed along with three other suspects.
January 4, 2021 By -
ISWAP Terrorists Execute Five Christians in Nigeria, Video Shows
Executions a 'warning to Christians,' militant says.
December 31, 2020 By -
JOS, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – Islamic extremist terrorists who kidnapped 11 Christians in northeast Nigeria on Christmas Day have executed five of them, according to a video released by the Islamic State’s AMAQ News agency. The 49-second video, dated Dec. 29, shows five armed members of the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) lining up […]
Muslim Extremists Rape Pastor in Eastern Uganda, Sources Say
Widowed mother of five targeted for her faith.
December 30, 2020 By -
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – Muslim extremists raped a church pastor on Dec. 21 in eastern Uganda, sources said. The female pastor, whose identity is withheld for her protection, was returning to her home in Kapyani, Kibuku District, from Christmas preparations at her church site at about 7 p.m. when someone near the swamps of […]
Seven Christians Killed in Christmas Eve Attacks in Nigeria
More than 30 Christians killed in prior attacks in Kaduna state, sources say.
December 27, 2020 By -
JOS, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – Islamic extremist militants killed seven Christians in Christmas Eve attacks in northeast Nigeria’s Borno state, according to area residents, while two people were reportedly killed in neighboring Adamawa state. Residents of the villages of Pemi and Debro, near Chibok, Borno state said the insurgents were members of Islamic extremist group […]
Muslims Forcibly Convert Christian Maids in Pakistan, Relative Says
Alleged kidnapper of Arzoo Raja released.
December 26, 2020 By -
LAHORE, Pakistan (Morning Star News) – Muslims who employed two young Christian women as live-in house cleaners in Lahore, Pakistan have forcibly converted them to Islam and are not permitting Christian relatives to see them, sources said. Nasreen Bibi, a Christian aunt of 18-year-old Maham Manzoor and 20-year-old Anum Manzoor, told Morning Star News that the […]
Christian in Pakistan Acquitted of Blasphemy after 11 Years in Prison
Catholic prosecuted due to influence of angry Muslim mob.
December 18, 2020 By -
LAHORE, Pakistan (Morning Star News) – A Christian who spent nearly 11 years in solitary confinement over a false allegation of desecrating the Koran was set to walk free after a high court this week overturned his conviction, sources said. The Lahore High Court on Tuesday (Dec. 15) ruled that prosecutors failed to prove the case […]
Muslim in Uganda Forces Christian Wife to Drink Pesticide
Woman beaten unconscious after discovery of Bibles.
December 17, 2020 By -
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – A 38-year-old mother of three in eastern Uganda had secretly put her faith in Christ for three months before her Muslim husband found two Bibles in her suitcase. On that day, Nov. 21, in Bugiri District’s Matovu village, Zubeda Nabirye’s husband asked her why she had the two Bibles, one […]
Pastor in India Locked in Room and Left to Die
Hindu nationalists beat him and steal his vehicle.
December 10, 2020 By -
HYDERABAD, India (Morning Star News) – The last thing pastor Shelton Vishwanathan recalled happening before he lost consciousness in a village in northeast India was Hindu extremists threatening to offer him as a sacrifice to their god as they belted his head. “They punched my back and told me that they would offer me as a […]
Long Ostracized Christian Withstands New Level of Persecution in India
Chhattisgarh a growing flash point for violations of religious freedom.
December 8, 2020 By -
NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – Representatives of eight village councils in central India first summoned a new Christian to give him an ultimatum in October. They interrupted a church service on Oct. 18 asking for Sattar Singh Markam. “I was conducting the church service when some men came to call Markam and asked him to […]
Police in Pakistan Find Christian Girl Chained in Kidnapper’s Home
Separately, Muslim suitor kills young woman for refusing him and Islam.
December 6, 2020 By -
LAHORE, Pakistan (Morning Star News) – A Catholic family’s five-month search for their 12-year-old daughter who was kidnapped, forcibly converted to Islam and married to a 45-year-old Muslim in Faisalabad, Pakistan, ended on Saturday (Dec. 5) when police found her chained in her abductor’s house, sources said. The discovery came on the heels of the killing […]