LAHORE, Pakistan (Christian Daily International–Morning Star News) – With suspects in a homicide case pressuring the victim’s relatives to make false statements, police in Pakistan are declining to arrest them in the case of a Catholic tortured to death by his Muslim employers, sources said. Sonia Shahid, widow of 35-year-old Shahid Masih and mother to their […]
Suspects Unprosecuted in Death by Torture of Christian in Pakistan
Police decline to arrest accused Muslims who pressured relatives.
May 30, 2024 By - Leave a Comment
Court in Pakistan Forces ‘Islam’ Designation on Christian’s ID Card
Employer fraudulently ‘converted’ worker, attorney says.
May 30, 2024 By - Leave a Comment
LAHORE, Pakistan (Christian Daily International–Morning Star News) – A court in Pakistan denied a Christian victim of fake conversion to change the religious designation of Islam and the Muslim name that his Muslim employers fraudulently registered on his National Identity Card, sources said. “Islam teaches that everyone is Muslim at birth but the parents and society […]
Christian Sanitation Worker Tortured in Pakistan
Sweeper beaten, chained for not granting request soon enough.
May 29, 2024 By - Leave a Comment
LAHORE, Pakistan (Christian Daily International–Morning Star News) – Muslims upset with a Christian sanitation worker in Lahore, Pakistan on Saturday (May 25) beat him and left him chained in blistering heat for hours, sources said. Hussain Masih, father-in-law of Yasir Masih, said he found the 35-year-old sanitation worker in the Gujjarpura area of Lahore chained to […]
Christian Convert in Somalia Wounded, Loses Family
Muslim relatives attack him after learning of his faith.
May 27, 2024 By - Leave a Comment
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – A Muslim in Somalia was seriously wounded for putting his faith in Christ this month and lost his wife and five children, sources said. Mohammad Abdul, 40, survived a knife attack by his Muslim relatives on the outskirts of Kismayo, a port city in southern Somalia’s Lower Juba region, on […]
Christian Wounded in Attack in Pakistan in Stable Condition
Police arrest 26 of 44 Muslim suspects.
May 27, 2024 By - Leave a Comment
LAHORE, Pakistan (Christian Daily International–Morning Star News) – A Christian in Sargodha, Pakistan who was critically wounded in a mob attack on Saturday (May 25) due to false allegations of blasphemy is in stable condition, sources said. The mob of rioting Muslims beat Nazeer Masih Gill, 74, vandalized his house and burned his shoe factory in Sargodha […]
Elderly Christian Critically Wounded in Pakistan after False Blasphemy Charge
Angry Muslim mob also burns his factory.
May 25, 2024 By - Leave a Comment
SARGODHA, Pakistan (Christian Daily International–Morning Star News) – An elderly Christian was fighting for his life in the hospital after a Muslim mob in Pakistan attempted to kill him due to a neighbor falsely accusing him of burning pages of the Quran, his family said. The mob also ransacked the house and burned the shoe factory […]
Justice Denied Christian Woman Cast into Chaff Cutter in Pakistan
Police refuse to prosecute influential Muslim employer.
May 15, 2024 By - Leave a Comment
LAHORE, Pakistan (Christian Daily International–Morning Star News) – Saima Bibi was serving tea to guests at her quarters in Punjab Province, Pakistan when her Muslim employer dragged her outside and pushed her towards an electric chaff cutter, tearing off her ear and cutting most of her scalp, her husband said. The 24-year-old Christian mother of two […]
Christians, Others Increasingly Targeted in Plateau State, Nigeria
Amnesty International reports 1,336 people killed in three months.
May 14, 2024 By - Leave a Comment
ABUJA, Nigeria (Christian Daily International–Morning Star News) – Following a rights group report that 1,336 people were killed in Plateau state, Nigeria between December and February, residents reported 18 Christians killed since mid-April. In Plateau state’s Kayarda village, near Namu in Qua’an Pan County, Fulani herdsmen killed four Christian farmers on May 7, council official Christopher […]
Muslim Family Disrupts Christian Worship in Indonesia
Local official, wife and son yell bad names at house church members.
May 13, 2024 By - Leave a Comment
SURABAYA, Indonesia (Morning Star News) – A local official and his Muslim family last week disrupted house church worship in an area of Java island, Indonesia where it has never happened before. In East Java Province’s Betiting village, in Cerme Sub-Regency of Gresik Regency, the head of the citizen association (Ketua Rukun Warga, or RW) […]
Suspected Fulani Herdsmen Attack Catholic School in Nigeria
Security guard shot, wounded at institution in Benue state.
May 10, 2024 By - Leave a Comment
ABUJA, Nigeria (Christian Daily International–Morning Star News) – Gunmen in an area of Nigeria where Fulani herdsmen are active attacked a Catholic school on Tuesday night (May 7), wounding a security guard in an apparent kidnapping attempt. In Adeke, a suburb of Makurdi, capital of Benue state, the assailants fired shots at the Father Angus Frazer […]