NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – The pastor of a church in eastern Uganda faces a dilemma after receiving threatening messages from Muslim villagers last week. A large family is staying at his church site after Islamist threats for leaving Islam forced them to flee their home. His congregation is dwindling as members have stopped […]
Family of 11 Homeless for Leaving Islam in Eastern Uganda
Congregation dwindles due to threats by Muslim villagers.
February 27, 2020 By -
Christmas Celebrations Mark Progress of Religious Freedom in Sudan
Muslim government officials attend yuletide service of long-persecuted church.
December 30, 2019 By -
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – In stark contrast to his predecessor, Sudan’s new minister of religious affairs last week attended a long-persecuted church’s Christmas service. Following the Sudanese government’s announcement of Christmas as a public holiday for the first time in eight years, Minister of Religious Affairs Nasr al-Din Mufreh accompanied senior government officials […]
Hopeful Signs for Change in Sudan Meet with Cautious Pessimism
Some have seen too much persecution to believe in imminent improvement.
September 12, 2019 By -
JUBA, South Sudan (Morning Star News) – The appointment of a Christian woman to the council overseeing transition to civilian rule in Sudan is a hopeful sign, but some persecution-weary Christians are less than optimistic about prospects for improved religious rights. Raja Nicola Eissa Abdel-Masih, a Coptic Christian who long served as a judge in […]
Widowed Mother of Seven Homeless when Muslim In-Laws Learn She Is Christian
8-year-old son innocently tells relatives about church.
September 4, 2019 By -
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – The 8-year-old boy didn’t realize that telling his Muslim relatives how much he enjoyed a church choir would cause them to attack his family. The seventh and youngest child of 54-year-old Lezia Nakayiza, widowed since September 2018, he didn’t know that his family was keeping their faith secret in […]
Muslim Clerics Threaten Sudanese Christian in Egypt
Convert from Islam fled torture in Sudan.
June 4, 2019 By -
JUBA, South Sudan (Morning Star News) – Days after Muslim leaders in Egypt came to his apartment to warn him to return to Islam, a Sudanese Christian in Cairo received a death threat by phone last week, he said. Having fled Sudan after authorities tortured and threatened to kill him if he refused to return to […]
Converts, Pastors Threatened with Death; Gospel Meetings Banned in Town in Uganda
Success of evangelistic event, threats lead police to shut it down.
June 3, 2019 By -
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – Police have banned evangelistic events in a town in western Uganda following open-air preaching in which many Muslims put their faith in Christ, sources said. Churches in Bwera, on Uganda’s western border with the Democratic Republic of Congo, held a joint evangelistic event amid the large Muslim population in Bwera […]
More than Six Months after Acquittal, Asia Bibi Finally Allowed to Leave Pakistan
Death threats, Islamist protests raised security concerns.
May 8, 2019 By -
LAHORE, Pakistan (Morning Star News) – Aasiya Noreen, better known as Asia Bibi, has arrived in Canada along with her husband more than six months after being acquitted of blasphemy charges and released from prison in Pakistan, sources said. After spending eight years on death row in Pakistan’s most infamous blasphemy case before the country’s Supreme […]
Unprecedented Suicide Bombing Attacks Shock Christians in Sri Lanka
Coordinated blasts at churches, hotels kill at least 290 people.
April 22, 2019 By -
HYDERABAD, India (Morning Star News) – Christians in Sri Lanka have never seen such a large-scale attack on them as the one that hit three churches and three hotels on Easter Sunday (April 21), killing at least 321 people, they said. “I don’t have words to express my pain,” a teary-eyed Eranda Weththasinghe told Morning Star […]
Cathedral Bombing Appears to Make Terrorist Statement after Referendum in Philippines
Islamic State-affiliated group responsible, officials say.
February 4, 2019 By -
MINDANAO, Philippines (Morning Star News) – Christians in the insurgency-scarred southern Philippines who hoped for peace after the region won official status as an autonomous, Islamic sub-state last month received a mortifying message when Islamist terrorists bombed a Catholic cathedral on Jan. 27. Members of the Islamic extremist rebel group Abu Sayyaf, which claims allegiance to […]
Muslim Throng Converges on Worship Site of Coptic Church in Egypt
Priests evicted, building shuttered.
January 15, 2019 By -
JERUSALEM (Morning Star News) – Police in Upper Egypt evicted Coptic priests and shuttered their church building after an Islamist mob converged on the site over the weekend, according to reports. Muslim villagers in Manshiyet Zaafarna, Minya Governorate, attacked the church of Mar-Giris (St. George) at 1:30 p.m. on Friday (Jan. 11), after mosque noon prayers, […]