ABUJA, NIGERIA (Voice of America) — Authorities in Nigeria’s Sokoto state are enforcing a 24-hour curfew, imposed Saturday to quell protests demanding the release of suspects in the killing of college student Deborah Yakubu. Yakubu was beaten and burned by fellow students Thursday for alleged blasphemous comments about the Muslim Prophet Muhammad in a WhatsApp group. […]
LONDON (The Christian Institute) — Detransitioner Keira Bell has been denied permission to appeal to the Supreme Court in her attempt to protect children from being prescribed experimental transgender drugs. Bell approached the Supreme Court last year after the Court of Appeal overturned a High Court ruling that it was “highly unlikely” children 13 […]
Sri Lanka (Mission Network News) — With every history-making headline from the last three years, 2019 may seem like a lifetime ago. But for survivors of the Easter bombings in Sri Lanka, 2019 feels like yesterday. “The Easter Sunday attacks affected the Church in different ways,” The Voice of the Martyrs Canada partner Yamini Ravindran […]
Christians’ home and grain destroyed in Ejariguda village, Odisha state on April 17, 2022. (Morning Star News) NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – Tribal villagers in eastern India assaulted three Christian families and destroyed their homes on Easter Sunday (April 17), sources said. The assailants, followers of tribal nature-worshipping religion, were upset that the Christian families […]
Mob Attack Spurred by Supposedly Blasphemous WhatsApp Message Nigeria (International Christian Concern) – Deborah Emmanuel, a 25-year-old Christian student at the Shehu Shagari College of Education in Nigeria’s Sokoto State, was fatally beaten and her body was burned earlier today, May 12. Her classmates were incensed at a supposedly blasphemous message she had sent to […]
(Barnabas Aid) — An Iranian pastor has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for running a “house church” in Tehran, the capital city. Anooshavan Avedian was also sentenced to ten years of “deprivation of social rights” – for example, restrictions on his employment – which will commence once he is released from prison. Two […]
Bishop Amon Sadiiki was attacked after leaving Mbale, Uganda on May 5, 2022. (Morning Star News) NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – Two Christians died when Muslim extremists on Thursday (May 5) set fire to a church building in southern Uganda, sources said. Most of the Christians holding an all-night prayer vigil had left when the […]
(Christian Aid Mission) — In a country where one tribe walks on burning coals to demonstrate the power of supernatural evil, two women at a church asked a visiting leader of a ministry based in Vietnam to pray for their deliverance from demonic attacks. When they lay in bed at night, they said, they suffered […]
Kenya (Mission Network News) — In Africa, many false teachers distort Christianity to their own advantage. The BBC’s Africa Eye recently visited one cult in Uganda known as the Faith of Unity. They teach Jesus did not exist and that their leader had supernatural powers. Reporters also visited the site where a rogue pastor and […]
Timothy Weyi was killed on April 19, 2022, in herdsmen ambush in Bassa County, Plateau state, Nigeria. (Morning Star News courtesy of family) ABUJA, Nigeria, May 9, 2022 (Morning Star News) – Fulani herdsmen in Nigeria killed eight Christians in Bassa county, Plateau state on Thursday (May 5), after slaughtering at least 21 others in […]