LAHORE, Pakistan (Morning Star News) – A Christian housecleaner in Pakistan was beaten and illegally confined for a week by her Muslim employers after she tried to leave her job due to pregnancy, she said. Asma Gulfam, a 28-year-old Catholic maid in the Paka Ghara area of Sialkot District, Punjab Province, said she had worked for […]
Muslim, Police in Pakistan Beat and Confine Pregnant Christian
Mother of five held in employer’s home for a week.
May 26, 2023 By -
Christians Wounded amid Military Fighting in Sudan
Gunmen storm Coptic Orthodox church in Omdurman.
May 24, 2023 By -
JUBA, South Sudan (Morning Star News) – Among attacks on church buildings and mosques in Sudan after fighting broke out within the Sudanese military last month, a priest and other Christians were reportedly shot and injured in at least one assault with apparent anti-Christian motives. Unidentified gunmen attacked the Coptic Orthodox Church of Mar Girgis (St. […]
Two Christians, 18 and 14, Accused of Blasphemy in Pakistan
Family devastated as youths jailed on baseless charge.
May 22, 2023 By -
LAHORE, Pakistan (Morning Star News) – Babar Sandhu Masih was resting after lunch on Thursday afternoon (May 18) when he heard a commotion outside his house in the Qurban Lines neighborhood of Lahore, Pakistan. Masih went outside to find his neighbor, policeman Zahid Sohail, beating his son and another Christian boy. His son Adil, 18, and […]
Charge Reduced for Indonesian Official Who Stopped Service
Intruder released from jail.
May 18, 2023 By -
SURABAYA, Indonesia (Morning Star News) – Authorities have reduced a blasphemy charge to one of mere “intrusion” for an official on western Indonesia’s Sumatra Island who broke up a worship service, sources said. Church leaders in Indonesia said such leniency would never be granted to a Christian who broke up mosque prayers and appealed for […]
Unusual Ruling Frees Christian Couple from Prison in Iran
Judge rules participating in religious ‘home-group’ is not illegal.
May 17, 2023 By -
(Morning Star News) – Iranian authorities released two Christian leaders from prison last week after a judge broke with common judicial practice in the country and ruled that home church participation was not illegal, sources said. Throwing out a 2020 conviction, a judge in Branch 34 of the Appeals Court in Tehran on May 9 […]
Christian Widow Accused of Blasphemy Released on Bail
School worker threatened with life imprisonment under draconian statutes.
May 15, 2023 By -
LAHORE, Pakistan (Morning Star News) – A court in Pakistan on Saturday (May 13) released on bail a Christian woman charged under a blasphemy statute that calls for life in prison, her attorney said. Lazar Allah Rakha told Morning Star News that Arifwala Additional Sessions Judge Ijaz Ahmad Phulwaran on Friday (May 12) admitted the post-arrest bails of […]
New Christian Beaten Unconscious for Leaving Islam
Assailants intruded into his home and strangled him.
May 8, 2023 By -
NAIROBI, Kenya, May 8, 2023 (Morning Star News) – A former Islamic teacher remains hospitalized after Muslim extremists in eastern Uganda on Tuesday (May 2) beat him unconscious for converting to Christianity, sources said. Shaquru Ndifuna, 33, was receiving treatment for blood loss at a medical clinic in Iganga town in the district of the […]
Fulani Herdsmen Kill 12 Christians in Central Nigeria
Pastor’s house among at least 86 homes burned down.
May 2, 2023 By -
ABUJA, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – Fulani herdsmen and other terrorists on April 16 killed 12 people in attacks on predominantly Christian villages of central Nigeria that continued until April 19, sources said. The assailants burned down the house of a pastor and other homes belonging to Christians in the attacks on Tattara Mada, Migini, Angwan […]
Christian College Student in Uganda Slain for Sharing Christ
Muslim from his hometown suspected.
May 1, 2023 By -
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – A Christian college student was killed in northern Uganda on April 14 for sharing about Christ with Muslims, a fellow student said. Jeremiah Mwanga, a second-year student at the Uganda Christian School of Professionals in Lira, Northern Region, was killed in his room at the school in Gwangabara cell, Boroboro […]
Fulani Kill 18 Christians, Wound Pastor in Plateau State, Nigeria
Herdsmen attack communities in five counties over 11 days.
April 28, 2023 By -
ABUJA, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – In 11 days of attacks through Wednesday (April 26), Fulani herdsmen killed 18 people and wounded others in predominantly Christian villages of Plateau state, Nigeria, sources said. The herdsmen attacked 11 communities in Jos South, Riyom, Barkin-Ladi, Mangu and Bokkos counties. Three Christians in Darwat village were wounded in attacks […]