LAHORE, Pakistan (Morning Star News) – When a Christian sanitation worker died after a police car struck him last week in Gujranwala, Pakistan, officers compensated his impoverished family with the equivalent of US$620. Rights advocates fear the Christian family likely will be forced to pardon the driver. The case typifies the discrimination and dangers that […]
Expectations of Justice Low for Grieving Family of Street Sweeper in Pakistan
Christian sanitation workers face dangers from roads and coronavirus.
May 1, 2020 By -
Couple Abducted from Wedding in Attacks in Northwest Nigeria that Kill 12 Christians
In north-central part of country, church elder kidnapped.
April 29, 2020 By -
JOS, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – Muslim Fulani herdsmen in northwest Nigeria killed 12 Christians and kidnapped a couple from their church wedding ceremony in attacks this month, sources said. In Tegina Kabata village in Niger state’s Shiroro County, herdsmen attacked a church site where a wedding was taking place on April 12, abducting the […]
Two Slain, Church Building Burned in Muslim Fulani Herdsmen Attacks in Nigeria
Armed terrorists kill, kidnap several others in one month.
April 28, 2020 By -
JOS, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – Muslim Fulani herdsmen on Wednesday and Thursday (April 22-23) killed two people, kidnapped another and burned down a church building that included the pastor’s home in attacks on predominantly Christian areas in north-central Nigeria, sources said. Two people were also wounded in the attacks in southern Kaduna state that […]
Police Arrest Pastor on Fabricated Charges in Pakistan, Sources Say
Presbyterian minister upset officer by complaining of police wrong-doing.
April 27, 2020 By -
LAHORE, Pakistan (Morning Star News) – Presbyterian assistant pastor Sarfaraz Raja was preparing to deliver a Good Friday sermon in Pakistan on April 10 when his brother informed him by phone that police had intruded into his house and were harassing his mother and other family members. Upset that the pastor had complained of police […]
Pastor in Central India Attacked for Police Report on Prior Assault, Expulsion
Family still living in open air after tribal animists drove them from home.
April 24, 2020 By -
NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – Tribal animists in central India who demolished a pastor’s house and drove him and his family out of their village in March seriously injured him in an assault this month, he said. After beating, choking and pelting pastor Lalu Kirade with a stone in the April 3 attack, the tribal […]
Four Christians Killed in Kaduna State, Nigeria, Sources Say
Muslim Fulani herdsmen destroy at least 36 houses.
April 22, 2020 By -
JOS, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – Muslim Fulani herdsmen killed four Christians in Kaduna state on Sunday (April 19), a day after an Anglican priest was kidnapped in southern Nigeria, sources said. Herdsmen attacked Angwan Magaji Kamaru village, near Kamaru in Kauru County, shortly after 6:30 p.m. for two and a half hours without resistance […]
Gunmen Shoot, Wound Daughter of Pastor Slain in 2015 in Eastern India
Family members are told they had not ‘learned lesson.’
April 21, 2020 By -
HYDERABAD, India (Morning Star News) – A gunman at the door of a Christian family’s home in eastern India on Thursday (April 16) shot the daughter of a pastor who was killed in the same house five years ago, family members said. Neelam Purty, 25, sustained bullet wounds in her thumb and thigh in the […]
Young Christian Woman and Pregnant Convert Seriously Injured in Eastern Uganda
Radical Muslims attack one for sharing her faith, the other for leaving Islam, sources say.
April 20, 2020 By -
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – A young woman who told a Muslim about Christ and a pregnant, formerly Muslim woman beaten for her new faith suffered serious injuries in eastern Uganda, sources said. Radical Muslims assaulted Lydia Nabirye, 23-year-old daughter of a Church of God evangelist, on April 7 at about 1 p.m. near […]
Herdsmen Kill Christian Student in Kaduna State, Pastor in Southern Nigeria, Sources Say
Couple kidnapped in attack in north-central part of country.
April 17, 2020 By -
JOS, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – A Christian student was killed in an attack by Muslim Fulani herdsmen in Kaduna state on Thursday night (April 16), a week after a pastor was slain at his church building residence in southern Nigeria, sources said. After his college in northwest Nigeria was closed due to the new […]
Six Children, Pregnant Mother among Nine Christians Killed in Herdsmen Attack in Nigeria
Muslim Fulani terrorists also strike in Niger state.
April 16, 2020 By -
JOS, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – Six children and a pregnant woman were among nine people that Muslim Fulani herdsmen killed in north-central Nigeria Tuesday night (April 14), sources said. About a dozen herdsmen armed with rifles and machetes raided Hura-Maiyanga village, in the Miango area of Kwall District in Plateau state’s Bassa County, shouting […]