Officials Vow to Withdraw Permit for Christian School in Indonesia

Foundation says it has authorization to build.

SURABAYA, Indonesia (Morning Star News) – Bowing to pressure from Islamic protestors, local officials in South Sulawesi Province, Indonesia have vowed to withdraw permission that had been granted to build a Christian school, sources said. In the town of Parepare, the district representative council had granted permission for the construction of the school as the […]

Terrorists Kidnap at Least 30 Christians in Nigeria 

Gunmen ambush them on a farm.

ABUJA, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – Terrorists on Saturday (Oct. 7) kidnapped more than 30 Christians in southern Kaduna state, Nigeria, residents said. The assailants ambushed and took the Christians away at gunpoint at about 11 a.m. as they worked on a communal farm in Chikuri, Chikun County, said area resident Victor Dabo in a text […]

Anti-Christian Incidents in Israel Condemned

Hostilities against evangelicals seen during Feast of Booths.

(Morning Star News) – The uptick in anti-Christian acts in Israel that began last December continued last week when police arrested five suspects accused of harassing Christians in Jerusalem’s Old City. Four adults and one minor were arrested Wednesday (Oct. 4), charged with assault for allegedly spitting at Christians and their sacred sites in Jerusalem, […]

Elderly Couple Left Homeless for Converting to Christianity

Muslim relatives damage structure, threaten to ‘destroy’ them.

NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – An elderly couple in eastern Uganda has fled their village after Muslim relatives upset with their conversion to Christianity threatened to destroy them and their home, sources said. In Wakalende village, Kyebando Ward in Mayuge town, 70-year-old Sula Mugudi and his wife, Aisha Mugudi, 62, put their faith in Christ on […]

Christian Slain, Others Kidnapped in Separate Areas of Nigeria

19 abducted in Kaduna state, 25 taken off bus in Ondo state.

ABUJA, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – Terrorists on Saturday (Sept. 30) killed one Christian and abducted 19 others in northern Nigeria, a day after gunmen in the country’s southwest intercepted a church bus and kidnapped 25 members. The assailants on Saturday invaded Kaduna state’s predominantly Christian Angwan Waku village, in the Kufana area of Kajuru County, […]

Terrorists Kill 11 Christians in Plateau State, Nigeria 

Eight slain on Sunday, three others last week.

ABUJA, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – Fulani herdsmen and other terrorists on Sunday (Oct. 1) killed eight Christians in Plateau state, Nigeria, and wounded five others, sources said. The assailants attacked Du village, in Bassa County’s Kwall District, with two children among those slain and the wounded requiring hospital treatment, said Davidson Malison, spokesman of the […]

Local Officials in Laos Stop Worship, Expel Christians

Family barred from returning to village.

(Morning Star News) – A month after a Christian family in Salavan Province, Laos lost their home and were expelled for their faith, officials in another province on Sunday (Oct. 1) disrupted the worship service of a house church and threatened to arrest them, according to a rights group. In Savannakhet Province’s Khampou village, Assaphone […]

Pastor in Pakistan Admits Wound Was Self-Inflicted, Leader Says

Church leader charged with making false allegations, causing unrest.

LAHORE, Pakistan (Morning Star News) – Police in Pakistan on Friday (Sept. 29) charged a pastor with making false allegations after he admitted that a gunshot wound he had blamed on Islamic extremists was self-inflicted, sources said. The Rev. Eleazar Sidhu, pastor of a Presbyterian church in Kukranwala village in the Khanuwana area of Jaranwala, Faisalabad […]

Terrorists Kill 16 Christians in Kaduna State, Nigeria 

Onslaught continues in southern part of state.

ABUJA, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – Fulani herdsmen and other terrorists this week killed 15 Christians in Kaduna state, Nigeria, following the slaying of another one last week, sources said. The assailants on Wednesday (Sept. 27) attacked predominantly Christian Angwan Magaji village, Kauru County, killing three Christians, after attacking Kigam village on Tuesday, where three others […]

Teenager Locked Up and Starved for Becoming Christian

Evangelistic team discovers 17-year-old during home visits.

NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – An evangelistic team in eastern Uganda this month discovered a Muslim had locked up his son and starved him for more than four months for accepting Christ, sources said. Musobya Aramanzani of Nankoma, Bugiri District learned that his 17-year-old son had accepted Christ earlier this year after hearing preaching in […]