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 […]
Released from Prison, Algerian Christian Persecuted in Tunisia
Slimane Bouhafs seeks refuge in third country.
April 4, 2021 By -
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 […]
Christian’s Five-Year Prison Sentence for Facebook Post Upheld in Algeria
Attorney sees anti-Christian bias in verdict.
March 23, 2021 By -
TIZI-OUZOU, Algeria (Morning Star News) – A judge in Oran, Algeria on Monday (March 22) upheld a five-year prison sentence for a Christian convicted of reposting a cartoon of Islam’s prophet on his Facebook account three years ago, sources said. Farid Khemisti, attorney for Hamid (surname withheld for security reasons), said the 43-year-old father of four young […]
Christians Seriously Injured in Mob Assault on House Church
Attack in central India leaves five people hospitalized.
March 23, 2021 By -
NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – A mob armed with axes and thick wooden batons in central India disrupted a home worship service and beat and threatened Christians for leaving their ancestral tribal religion this month, sources said. Eight Christians were injured and five of them hospitalized, including two women and a pastor who suffered head […]
Legacy of a Hard-Working Fighter for Religious Freedom
Ruth Montaño toiled in the trenches for silenced voices in Bolivia.
March 18, 2021 By -
COCHABAMBA, Bolivia (Morning Star News) – Until her death last month at the age of 63, Bolivian attorney Ruth Montaño had done perhaps more than any living person to advance the rights of religious minorities in her Andean homeland. A specialist in constitutional law and permanent legal counsel to the National Association of Evangelicals of Bolivia […]
Christian Mother of Three Beaten, Driven from Home in India
Officer says she should have been killed for leaving tribal religion.
March 17, 2021 By -
HYDERABAD, India (Morning Star News) – Homeless since relatives attacked her for failing to respect their tribal rituals last month, a Christian mother of three young children in eastern India sought help from police. The next morning, Feb. 10, an officer from Lesliganj police station in Jharkhand state’s Palamu District came to her village and accused […]
Another Christian Girl in Pakistan Kidnapped, Forcibly Converted
Police shielding kidnappers, keeping parents from 13-year-old, sources say.
March 12, 2021 By -
LAHORE, Pakistan (Morning Star News) – Johnson Masih and his wife Samina were shocked when police in Lahore, Pakistan told them their 13-year-old daughter, missing since Feb. 19, had converted to Islam and married a Muslim. A few days after registering a missing person report with police on Feb. 21, the investigating officer summoned them to […]
Pastor’s Relatives Raped after Imam’s Wife Turns to Christ
Mosque leader threatens church leader, plans attack, sources say.
March 11, 2021 By -
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – A mosque leader sent men to rape three female relatives of a church pastor in western Uganda because the imam’s wife put her faith in Christ, sources said. The imam also sent a Muslim to the church’s worship services in the Kasese area to gather information for a future attack […]
Christian Mother Expelled from Village, Threatened with Death
Tribal woman kept from harvesting annual food supply.
March 9, 2021 By -
HYDERABAD, India (Morning Star News) – When villagers kept her from harvesting her fields because she had invited a Christian pastor to pray for the harvest, a tribal Adivasi mother in central India went to police thinking officers might help her. Instead, the police inspector at the Polampalli police station in Chhattisgarh state showed Kanni Barse […]