Kacheri group of Hindu temples, Dwarahat, Uttarakhand state, India. (Creative Commons) NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – The first Christian charged under Uttarakhand state, India’s “anti-conversion” law has become the first to be acquitted under the statute, sources said. After a four-year legal battle, Judicial Magistrate Anju (who uses only one name) of the Ramnagar Court […]

Evangelical School of Sudan in Omdurman. (Morning Star News) JUBA, Sudan (Morning Star News) – A years-long Islamist attempt to seize a Christian school in Sudan continued this month even as people displaced by war have taken refuge in the facility, sources said. An Islamic business interest sent three Muslims who forcefully entered the embattled […]

Members of 10 civil society organizations on Sept. 25, 2025 discuss strategies to fight Rajasthan state, India anti-conversion bill. (Rahul Kashyap for Morning Star News) NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – A wave of attacks on Christians erupted in northwest India’s Rajasthan state following passage of harsh anti-conversion legislation even though it has yet to receive […]

Muslims protest at site of church in commercial complex in Gerendeng Pulo village, Tangerang, Indonesia on Sept. 21, 2025. (Screenshot from Instagram) SURABAYA, Indonesia (Morning Star News) – A Muslim crowd near Jakarta, Indonesia demanded a congregation suspend worship on Sunday (Sept. 21), sources said. In Tangerang, a satellite town of Jakarta, at least 20 Muslims arrived […]

Shafiki Wasike was killed for his faith on Sept. 1, 2025 in Mbale City, Uganda. (Morning Star News) NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – A Muslim high school student in Uganda stabbed his brother to death this month a day after he converted to Christianity, sources said. Akram Kairoki, a third-year student at Mbale High School […]

Christian woman raped in Kondagaon District, Chhattisgarh state, India on July 15, 2025. (Morning Star News) NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – Hindu relatives of a 20-year-old Christian woman in central India raped her and nearly killed her mother for their faith in Christ, sources said. “Since we started to attend church six years ago, my […]

Location of Central Java Province, Indonesia. (TUBS, Creative Commons) SURABAYA, Indonesia (Morning Star News) – Officials in Central Java Province, Indonesia halted construction of a church and religious tourism compound following pressure from local council members and Muslim groups. The Karanganyar Regent on Sept. 2 suspended construction of the Immanuel Christian Church (Gereja Kristen Immanuel, GKIM) […]

Funeral of Christians killed on Aug. 28, 2025 in Kauru County, Kaduna state, Nigeria. (Iliya Tata for Christian Daily International-Morning Star News) ABUJA, Nigeria (Christian Daily International–Morning Star News) – Fulani herdsmen on Aug. 24 attacked a predominantly Christian village in Kaduna state, Nigeria, killing seven people, including a 1-year-old infant, residents said. In Angwan Rimi village in […]

Sultan Bello Mosque in the city of Kaduna, Kaduna state, Nigeria. (Anasskoko, Creative Commons) ABUJA, Nigeria (Christian Daily International–Morning Star News) – Fulani herdsmen attacked two villages in northwest Nigeria’s Kaduna state early on Sunday (Sept. 7), killing eight Christians and wounding nine others. Area resident Timothy Kimbe said herdsmen attacked Wakeh and Gadanaji villages in Kachia County […]

Shiva Temple, Renukoot, Sonbhadra District, Uttar Pradesh state, India. (Sarvesh Mishra, Creative Commons) NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – Police in India left two young children of a pastor and his wife unattended when they arrested the couple on fabricated charges, and other officers later beat the children’s mother in custody, sources said. The couple was […]