ABUJA, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – Fulani herdsmen on Thursday (March 24) killed an estimated 50 Christians and abducted a Catholic priest in attacks on communities in an area of Kaduna state, Nigeria, area sources said. In late-night attacks on 10 predominantly Christian communities of Giwa County, herdsmen and others also took about 100 people captive […]
Terrorists Kill 50 Christians and Abduct 100, including Priest
Church building, homes burned down in Kaduna state, Nigeria.
March 28, 2022 By -
Nigeria Again Worst in World in Killed, Kidnapped Christians
Suspected Fulani herdsmen slay three in Plateau state.
January 20, 2022 By -
ABUJA, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – Suspected Fulani herdsmen last week killed three Christians in attacks in Nigeria, where more Christians were killed for their faith last year than in any other country, sources said. Three Christians were killed and two wounded in an ambush at about 9:30 p.m. on Jan. 10 in predominantly Christian Tyaana […]
Another Christian Girl Allegedly Forced to Convert/Marry
Family of 14-year-old says Muslim neighbor kidnapped her.
January 14, 2022 By -
LAHORE, Pakistan (Morning Star News) – The abduction and forced conversion of Christian girls in Pakistan continued with impunity as another minor was separated from her parents the first week of the year, sources said. Mahnoor Ashraf, a 14-year-old Pentecostal Christian, went missing shortly after leaving her home in Lahore’s Cantonment area for a nearby shop […]
Missing Catholic Girl in Pakistan Depicted as Married Muslim
14-year-old disappeared on July 27.
August 6, 2021 By -
LAHORE, Pakistan (Morning Star News) – When Gulzar Masih’s 14-year-old daughter did not return home from school in Faisalabad, Pakistan on July 27, the rickshaw driver and his brother set out to find her. Reaching the school later that afternoon, they found it was locked from the outside. They frantically searched for his daughter, Chashman, on […]
Christians Suffer Court Setback in Child Marriages/Conversions
Supreme Court declines petition for protection from Muslim kidnappers.
July 20, 2021 By -
LAHORE, Pakistan (Morning Star News) – Efforts to end the abduction and forced conversion/marriage of minor Christian girls suffered a setback when the Supreme Court of Pakistan last week declined to intervene in the issue, sources said. Supreme Court Justice Mushir Alam on Wednesday (July 14) rejected an appeal by a senior church leader for a […]
Another 13-Year-Old Girl Forced to Marry/Convert to Islam
A judge, shelter again appear complicit in crime, sources say.
June 21, 2021 By -
LAHORE, Pakistan (Morning Star News) – Tears rolled down Shahid Gill’s face as he recalled the day last month when a court in Pakistan handed his 13-year-old daughter into the custody of a 30-year-old Muslim man. Gill, a Roman Catholic, works as a tailor in Gujranwala city, some 150 kilometers (93 miles) from Lahore. His daughter, […]
Kidnappings Terrorize Christians in Kaduna State, Nigeria
Nurses, pastor’s wife taken, plus mass abduction from one village.
May 9, 2021 By -
JOS, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – Fulani herdsmen in north-central Nigeria kidnapped a pastor’s wife from her home and two nurses from a hospital, while other Islamic extremists may have joined herdsmen in abducting more than 70 people from one village, sources said. Fulaki Ozigi was kidnapped along with her husband, Mercy Place Ministry Church pastor […]
Christians Abducted from Bus in North-Central Nigeria
Muslim Fulani herdsmen suspected.
March 29, 2021 By -
JOS, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – Christians in Kaduna state, Nigeria suspect Muslim Fulani herdsmen were behind the kidnapping of eight Christians from a bus in the southern part of the state on Friday (March 26). The members of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) were traveling from the city of Kaduna to Kafanchan when […]
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 Threatened with Execution in Nigeria Reportedly Freed
Christians said to have contributed to ransom payment.
March 3, 2021 By -
JOS, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – Islamic terrorists who last week threatened to execute a pastor they abducted in northeast Nigeria reportedly freed him today. Nigerian newspaper Premium Times reported today that pastor Bulus Yikura, a Church of the Brethren pastor abducted from Pemi village near Chibok, Borno state in an Islamic terrorist attack on Christmas […]