NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – Having fled Sudan after authorities tortured and threatened to kill him if he refused to return to Islam, a Sudanese Christian now faces death threats in Egypt. Unknown Muslims in Cairo began threatening him for his faith in Christ last year, 40-year-old Al Hadi Izzalden Shareef Osman said. In a […]
Facing Torture, Death in Sudan, Convert Flees to Egypt – and More Death Threats
Apartment broken into, passport stolen.
January 21, 2019 By -
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, […]
Christian Mother, Pastor Fear for their Lives after Attacks in Eastern Uganda
Radical Muslims in two areas issue threats.
January 11, 2019 By -
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – Muslims in eastern Uganda sent a Christian mother to the hospital with injuries from a beating in one village and tore down a church building in another, sources said. Both the woman and the pastor of the destroyed church building fear their lives could be in danger. Deborah Gimbo of […]
Faith Costs Christian in Algeria His Family, Livelihood
Wife pressured to file charges against him of ‘undermining Islam.’
January 9, 2019 By -
TIZI-OUZOU, Algeria (Morning Star News) – A 32-year-old convert in Algeria has not seen much of his two young daughters since his wife divorced him and charged him with undermining Islam more than two years ago. Ahmed Beghal (name changed for security reasons) has legal rights to visit his daughters, ages 4 and 6, but his […]
Authorities Order Closure of another Church Building in Algeria
Local officials have been fighting its presence since 2016.
January 2, 2019 By -
TIZI-OUZOU, Algeria (Morning Star News) – The official notice that a village pastor in Algeria received on Sunday (Dec. 30) confirmed what he had heard – his church had been ordered to close. Pastor Rabah Messaoudi had won a legal battle in 2017 after local officials in the Muslim country tried to close his church in […]
New Christian in Uganda Loses Family, Plantation for Leaving Islam
Muslim mob destroys his livelihood.
December 28, 2018 By -
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – In 24 hours earlier this month, a convert to Christianity in eastern Uganda lost his livelihood, wife and children to irate relatives and other Muslims, sources said. In Masaba village, Sironko District, a leader of the village mosque on Dec. 7 led a mob to Muhamud Gusolo’s banana plantation and […]
Christians in Algeria Acquitted of Conversion Charge
Muslim wife of convert pressured to file accusation, husband says.
December 26, 2018 By -
TIZI-OUZOU, Algeria (Morning Star News) – Five Christians in Algeria were acquitted on Tuesday (Dec. 25) of the charge of inciting a Muslim to change her religion, sources said. A judge at the court of Bouira acquitted Rachid Ouali, whose Muslim wife had filed the charges against him. Ouali, his friend Ali Laarchi, Laarchi’s wife and […]
Spike in Arrests of Christians in Iran Especially Severe this Christmas Season, Sources Say
Government trying to intimidate Iranians interested in Christianity, analysts say.
December 20, 2018 By -
JERUSALEM (Morning Star News) – Arrests of Christians in Iran usually spike as Christmas approaches, but this year has been especially severe, sources said. More than 150 Christians have been detained across the officially Shia Muslim country in the last month, and arrests are expected to continue. “The current situation has been described by some as […]
Christian Mother, Pastor Face Death Threats in Uganda
She and four children take refuges from husband.
December 17, 2018 By -
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – Shakira Wanyenze, a 31-year-old Muslim woman, had no idea that missing a ride back to her town in eastern Uganda from Kampala would change her life. That day, June 17, Wanyenze decided to stay the night at the home of a relative in Kampala. She thought the relative, whose name […]
Discrimination against Christians in Egypt Reflects Deeper Issues
Attempt to do away with religious designation on ID cards fails.
December 3, 2018 By -
JERUSALEM (Morning Star News) – A wan effort to do away with the religious designation on ID cards in Egypt reflects the enormity of the discrimination Christians face in a country regarded as a leader of Middle Eastern Islam, rights advocates said. ID cards are required for almost every aspect of public life in Egypt, and […]