NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – A Christian in Somalia long persecuted for his faith had not seen his children attacked until this month, when an assault on his 7-year-old son sent him to the hospital for three days. The convert from Islam told Morning Star News he had finished a Bible study with other underground […]
Muslim Boys in Somalia Beat Christian’s 7-Year-Old Son
Convert says family has been ‘hunted’ for years.
October 30, 2020 By - Leave a Comment
Three Christian Teachers Killed in Northeast Kenya, Sources Say
Al Shabaab militants select non-local Christians for execution.
January 14, 2020 By - Leave a Comment
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – Somali Al Shabaab rebels killed three Christian teachers in northeast Kenya at about 2:30 a.m. on Monday (Jan. 13), sources said. “One of the attackers said, ‘We cannot allow infidels to teach our children,’ and there and then fired at three teachers as I managed to escape through the […]
Christian Mother in Somalia Divorced, Beaten
Muslim husband discovers her Bible.
August 16, 2019 By - 1 Comment
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – The husband of a 32-year-old mother of two children in Somalia had just discovered that his wife owned a Bible and demanded that she reveal who had given it to her. “I told my husband that I found the Bible in Nairobi and wanted to read it,” the secret Christian […]
Pastor of Underground Church in Kenya Beaten Unconscious
Relocated family seeks safe home.
March 11, 2019 By - Leave a Comment
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – The Somali pastor of an underground church in Kenya near the Somali border suffered a broken thigh bone and other injuries after Muslim extremists beat him with wooden clubs on Friday night (March 8), sources said. Pastor Abdul (surname withheld for security reasons), a 30-year-old father of three, had finished […]
Christian Mother from Somalia Beaten, Raped in Kenya
Somali Muslims attack convert from Islam.
February 11, 2019 By - Leave a Comment
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – Somali Muslims who beat and raped a Christian mother of four last month began sending threatening messages more than a year ago at a refugee camp in Kenya, she said. The 41-year-old Somali woman was a Muslim living in Somalia with her husband when he sent her and their four […]
As More Christians Are Killed in Somalia, Number of Orphans Grows
Impoverished secret church unable to meet all their needs.
March 6, 2018 By - Leave a Comment
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – Orphans in Somalia whose parents were killed for their faith by Islamic extremist, Al Shabaab rebels are becoming more numerous – and hungrier, an underground church leader said. The pastor started a care center for the orphans three years ago in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, as more children of secret Christians were […]
Somali Muslims Break In, Beat Children of Christian Widow in Kenya
Two of three victims spend four days in hospital.
November 28, 2017 By - 1 Comment
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – Hard-line Muslims on the outskirts of Nairobi, Kenya attacked a Christian widow’s children, ages 13, 17 and 21, leaving two of them seriously injured and still in pain 11 days after the assault, sources said. Hadiya (surname withheld), an immigrant from Somalia, had not yet returned from a trip to […]
Islamic Extremists in Somalia Kill Secret Christian, Her Son, Wound Husband, Sources Say
Assailants identified as Al Shabaab militants.
March 6, 2017 By - Leave a Comment
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – Islamic extremists in Somalia identified as Al Shabaab rebels last month shot to death an underground Christian woman and her son and seriously wounded her husband, sources said. The family was asleep at their home at dawn in Afgoi, about 30 kilometers (19 miles) west of Mogadishu, when at least […]
Al Shabaab Kills Christians in Raid on Village in Coastal Kenya
At least four dead in latest Islamic extremist attack in the area.
February 2, 2016 By - Leave a Comment
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – In a pre-dawn raid on a predominantly Christian area in coastal Kenya on Sunday (Jan. 31), Islamic extremist Al Shabaab rebels killed at least four Christians, beheading one of them, area sources said. In the Kaisari area of Maporomoko village, near Pandanguo about 25 miles inland from the Indian Ocean […]
Morning Star News’ Top 10 Persecution Stories of 2015
Islamic violence accelerates in countries not known for religious conflict.
January 8, 2016 By - Leave a Comment
(Morning Star News) – Islamic extremist violence in countries not known for religious tensions, majority-Christian Kenya and Uganda, topped Morning Star News’ stories in 2015. While the Islamic State terrorized Christians in Syria, Iraq and Libya, and Muslim Fulani herdsmen in Nigeria killed innocent civilians in the shadow of Boko Haram, in northeast Kenya Al […]