NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – A Muslim in eastern Uganda is suspected of killing his mother last week by putting pesticide in her food for refusing to leave her Christian faith, a relative said. Sulaina Nabirye, 50, of Kamuli, Kamuli District, put her faith in Christ on Feb. 10, and since then her 31-year-old son […]
Muslim Suspected of Killing His Christian Mother, Relative Says
Imam in training and wife are said to have poisoned food.
April 16, 2024 By - 1 Comment
Militants Detain Church Leader in Sudan, Demand Ransom
SCOC general secretary released over the weekend.
April 16, 2024 By - Leave a Comment
JUBA, South Sudan (Morning Star News) – The paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) on Friday (April 12) intercepted a church leader in Sudan as he was traveling out of Omdurman and temporarily jailed him, area sources said. The Rev. Antar Abbas Abu Hidia, general secretary of the Sudanese Church of Christ (SCOC), was traveling to Shendi, […]
Pakistan Told to Address Forced Marriages, Conversions of Girls
Christians and those of other minority religions are vulnerable.
April 12, 2024 By - Leave a Comment
LAHORE, Pakistan (Christian Daily International–Morning Star News) – U.N. human rights experts on Thursday (April 11) called on Pakistan to make legal changes in light of continued vulnerability of women and girls of minority faiths to forced marriages and religious conversions. The U.N. special rapporteurs demanded Pakistan raise the legal age for girls to marry to […]
Young Christian Woman Killed by Muslim Family Member
Separately, evangelist sustains serious injuries in beating.
April 12, 2024 By - Leave a Comment
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – The Muslim brother of a 19-year-old woman in eastern Uganda on March 29 killed her for putting her faith in Christ, sources said. Namukuve Sawuya had come to faith through a Christian Union Fellowship at her high school, a relative said. When her father, 60-year-old Alhaji Muzamiru, noticed she was […]
Christian Slain, Mother and Daughter Burned for their Faith
Muslim extremists target evangelist in eastern Uganda.
April 11, 2024 By - Leave a Comment
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – An evangelist was slain and a mother and her 10-year-old daughter suffered serious burns for their faith in separate incidents last month in eastern Uganda. In Busei B village, Nakalama Sub-County in Iganga District, sources said Ronald Twinomugisha had received threats by text message from Muslims before he was hacked […]
Christian Laborer in Pakistan Shot for Requesting Wages
Muslim employers beat him with iron rods.
April 5, 2024 By - Leave a Comment
LAHORE, Pakistan (Christian Daily International–Morning Star News) – Muslim farm owners in Pakistan on March 23 beat a Christian laborer with iron rods and shot him in the leg for requesting his wages owed him, sources said. Waqas Masih, a 42-year-old farm laborer in Chak No. 8 Panj Garaiyan Kamalpur village in Faisalabad District, Punjab Province, […]
Family of Slain Christian in Pakistan Receives Death Threats
Armed, Muslim relatives of alleged killer barge into home.
April 3, 2024 By - Leave a Comment
LAHORE, Pakistan (Christian Daily International–Morning Star News) – Muslim relatives of the alleged killer of a 20-year-old Christian in Pakistan are threatening the victim’s family with death if they do not drop charges, sources said. Muhammad Zubair initially confessed to killing Farhan Ul Qamar in his house in Talwandi Inayat Khan village, Pasrur tehsil of Sialkot […]
Christian Couple in India Sentenced to Prison
Pastor and wife wrongly convicted of ‘forcible conversion,’ he says.
April 3, 2024 By - Leave a Comment
NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – A Christian couple in India has been sentenced to prison after Hindu extremists instigated a false case of forcible conversion against them, sources said. A woman they are accused of pressuring denied in court that the Christians tried to forcibly/fraudulently convert her or her husband, but Pastor Ramesh Ahirwar and […]
Al Shabaab Suspected in Killing of Six Christians in Somalia
Merchants were spreading gospel among Muslims, sources say.
April 2, 2024 By - Leave a Comment
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – Six Kenyan merchants killed by suspected militants from the Islamic extremist Al Shabaab on Friday (March 29) in the Somali border town of Dhobley were likely attacked for spreading Christianity, sources said. The six secret Christians had been selling plastic utensils and other household goods in Dhobley, in Somalia’s Lower […]
Arson Suspected in Church Fire in Pakistan
Muslim threatened congregation would not celebrate Easter.
April 1, 2024 By - Leave a Comment
LAHORE, Pakistan (Christian Daily International–Morning Star News) – Christians suspect a Muslim who vowed to keep them from celebrating Easter was behind a fire allegedly set to their church building on Saturday (March 30) in Rawalpindi District, Pakistan. The Rev. Adeem Alphonse of the United Presbyterian Junior Church in Gujar Khan tehsil said the fire […]