LAHORE, Pakistan (Morning Star News) – A government concession to demands by a Muslim extremist political party to allow blasphemy charges under Pakistan’s anti-terrorism laws has raised fears of more injustice for those accused under the harsh statutes, sources said. Federal Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah and Economic Affairs Minister Sardar Ayaz Sadiq on June 17 signed […]
Pakistan Aims to Try Blasphemy Cases under Anti-Terror Law
Government bows to Muslim extremist party’s demand.
June 28, 2023 By -
More than 150 Christians Killed in Plateau State, Nigeria
Terrorists set fire to church building.
June 27, 2023 By -
ABUJA, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – Fulani terrorists in Plateau state, Nigeria killed more than 150 Christians in the first three weeks of June, including a church pastor, sources said. The killing of the Rev. Nichodemus Kim of the Church of Christ in Nations (COCIN) in Gana-Ropp, Barkin Ladi County on June 11 brought to three […]
Christian Family Traumatized by Ethnic Violence in India
Religious motives appear amid primarily tribal bases for attacks.
June 26, 2023 By -
NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – On the evening of May 3, an ethnic Christian in northern India’s Manipur state received a call from a relative advising her to pack up and leave home with her children immediately. Manngaihlun Tombing, of the Kuki ethnic minority in Churachandpur, did not take it seriously, she said. The worst […]
Christians Fear Implication in Attack on Government in Vietnam
Long oppressed Montagnard evangelicals could be targeted.
June 25, 2023 By -
(Morning Star News) – Ethnic Christians in Vietnam are bracing for potential fallout should they be blamed for recent anti-government violence. In the pre-dawn hours of June 11, four policemen, two government officials and three bystanders were killed by camouflage-clad armed groups. This rare anti-government violence took place in Ea Tieu and Ea Ktur communes, […]
Muslims Block Worship at Two Churches in Indonesia
Home fellowship told to obtain permit.
June 23, 2023 By -
SURABAYA, Indonesia (Morning Star News) – A local official and other Muslims on Sunday (June 18) stopped worship at a house church outside Jakarta, Indonesia, and a church site in Central Java Province was temporarily blocked, according to local reports. In West Java Province, a group of Muslims said to be led by a neighborhood official […]
Christian Students Slaughtered in Attack on High School
Islamist terrorists from DRC suspected in terrorist assault in Uganda.
June 22, 2023 By -
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – Islamist terrorists on Friday night (June 16) killed at least 37 students, most of them Christians, at the dormitories of a private high school in Uganda, and kidnapped six others, sources said. Shouting the jihadist slogan “Allahu akbar [God is greater],” according to the BBC, the assailants killed the students […]
New Christians Hospitalized after Relatives Beat Them
Family in Uganda attacks two brothers for leaving Islam.
June 20, 2023 By -
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – Relatives of two brothers who accepted Christ in May beat them for leaving Islam earlier this month in eastern Uganda, sources said. Janati Tisuubira, 22, and his 33-year-old brother Ibrahim Musa Kakembo, received hospital care for nearly week after family members attacked them on June 3 following a burial service […]
Catholic Priest Slain in Southwest Nigeria
Gunmen shoot him in the back.
June 15, 2023 By -
ABUJA, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – Unidentified gunmen on June 7 shot a Roman Catholic priest to death in southwest Nigeria, a church spokesman said. The Rev. Charles Onomhoale Igechi was killed as he drove in the Ikhueniro area of Benin, Edo state, the Rev. Augustine Akubeze, archbishop of the Archdiocese of Benin said in a […]
Fulani Terrorists Kill 46 Christians in Benue State, Nigeria
Villages are attacked uncontested for two days.
June 14, 2023 By -
ABUJA, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – Fulani herdsmen on June 3 and 4 killed 46 Christians in attacks on a cluster of villages in Benue state, Nigeria, sources said. The herdsmen invaded Imande Mbakange village in the early hours of June 3, killing 28 Christians, according to a press statement from the Shitile Development Association, signed […]
Religious Facet Seen in Ethnic Violence in Manipur, India
Christians likely targeted in inter-tribal attacks, sources say.
June 12, 2023 By -
NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – A surge of ethnic violence with a growing religious component in northeastern India led to the killing on Friday (June 9) of a woman in her church building and two other Christians, sources said. The attack by ethnic Meitei with automatic rifles in Manipur state’s Khoken village, on the boundary […]