Bandar Lampung, on Sumatra Island, Indonesia. (22Kartika, Creative Commons) SURABAYA, Indonesia (Morning Star News) – A court in Indonesia last week sentenced a Muslim to three months in jail for halting a Christian worship service. Sources said reducing the charge from blasphemy to disrupting a worship service, combined with an agreement the Muslim reached with the […]

Belongings of Christians burned in Muslim rioting in Jaranwala, Pakistan on Aug. 16, 2023. (Morning Star News) LAHORE, Pakistan (Morning Star News) – Instigated by mosque leaders, Muslim mobs on Wednesday (Aug. 16) burned 20 church buildings and ransacked Christian homes and businesses in Jaranwala, Pakistan after a Muslim framed two Christians in a false blasphemy […]

Damage done to GUPdI church building in Kabil village, Batam, Riau Islands Province, Indonesia on Aug. 9, 2023. (GUPdI for Morning Star News) SURABAYA, Indonesia (Morning Star News) – Mobs in northern Indonesia this month blocked a church from its Sunday service venue in one town and damaged a worship building under construction in another, sources […]

Location of Chhattisgarh, India. (Filpro, Creative Commons) HYDERABAD, India (Morning Star News) – Police in central India on July 26 beat a Christian educator and filed baseless charges against him of human trafficking and fraudulent conversion of eight Christian students he was escorting to a Bible institute, sources said. After arresting Liju Kuriakose off of a […]

Location of Kayuge District, Uganda, outlined in red. (Map data © 2023 Google) NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – Hard-line Muslims threw stones at a pastor in eastern Uganda and beat him unconscious as he spoke at a funeral using both the Bible and the Koran, he said from his hospital bed. Pastor Davidson Okirori, 39, […]

Amina Nanfuka was killed on July 9, 2023 in Bugiri, Uganda. (Morning Star News) NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – A Muslim in eastern Uganda on July 9 killed his wife for converting to Christianity that morning, a relative said. Amina Nanfuka, 31, had returned from a medical check-up in Kampala and a visit to a […]

Mosque announcements to protest alleged blasphemy created large crowds of Muslims in Sargodha, Pakistan, on July 16, 2023. (Sanawar Balam for Morning Star News) LAHORE, Pakistan (Morning Star News) – A third accusation of blasphemy in less than a month compelled Christians fearful of Islamic retribution to flee their homes in an eastern city in Pakistan […]

Medan, North Sumatra Province, Indonesia. (Flickr, Creative Commons) SURABAYA, Indonesia (Morning Star News) – As police looked on, a group of Muslims in North Sumatra Province, Indonesia, on July 2 asked why a church should be present in a Muslim-majority area as they broke up its worship service, a video shows. The disruption was the second in […]

Badshahi Mosque, Lahore, Pakistan. (Romero Maia, Creative Commons) LAHORE, Pakistan (Morning Star News) – Police in Pakistan on Tuesday (July 11) kept a Christian charged with blasphemy from appearing at his bail hearing, compelling a judge to bow to pressure from a crowd of slogan-shouting Muslims and deny his release, sources said. Haroon Shahzad, resident of […]

Abudu Amisi was attacked in Kasasira West village, Kibuku District, Uganda on July 8, 2023. (Morning Star News) NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – About two weeks after a 22-year-old Muslim in eastern Uganda put his faith in Christ, villagers on Saturday (July 8) killed him for leaving Islam, sources said. Abudu Amisi of Kasanvu village, […]