Location of Niger state in Nigeria. (Uwe Dedering, Creative Commons) ABUJA, Nigeria (Christian Daily International–Morning Star News) – Muslims burned down a church building in the early hours of Saturday (Aug. 10) in central Nigeria’s Niger state, sources said. The razing of the building of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) congregation in Kontagora town […]

Salma Munir died two days after being rescued in June 2024. LAHORE, Pakistan (Christian Daily International–Morning Star News) – A Muslim in Pakistan who kidnapped and raped a mentally handicapped Christian woman who died from her injuries two days after her release is pressuring her family to drop charges, sources said. Salma Munir, 20, was held […]

Minorities at rally shout slogans outside the Lahore Press Club on Aug. 11, 2024. (Christian Daily International-Morning Star News) LAHORE, Pakistan (Christian Daily International–Morning Star News) – Despite attempts by the Pakistani government and Islamist groups to thwart protest rallies and marches, Christians in several cities came out in large numbers to mark National Minorities Day […]

Bodies of Christians slain in Ayati village, Ukum County, Benue state, Nigeria on Aug. 8, 2024. (Abraham Waroh Facebook) ABUJA, Nigeria (Christian Daily International–Morning Star News) – Fulani herdsmen teamed up with a criminal gang to attack a village in central Nigeria on Thursday (Aug. 8), killing at least 50 Christians, sources said. Officials who found […]

Central Mosque, Jos, Nigeria. (El-siddeeq lame, Creative Commons) ABUJA, Nigeria (Christian Daily International–Morning Star News) – Predominantly Muslim Fulani herdsmen on Tuesday (Aug. 6) attacked Christian farmers in Plateau state, wounding four of them, sources said. In Lwa village of Bachi District, Riyom County, three of the Christians were attacked as they worked on their farms, while […]

Indonesian President Joko Widodo (in white) at one of the church buildings attacked by terrorists in May 2018. (Press Bureau of the Secretariat of the President of Indonesia) SURABAYA, Indonesia (Morning Star News) – Authorities in  Indonesia last week arrested a 19-year-old member of an Islamic extremist group and his parents, foiling a plan to suicide […]

Location of Butaleja District, Uganda. (OpenStreetMap contributors, Jarry1250, NordNordWest) NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – A Muslim in eastern Uganda burned his 19-year-old daughter with a flat iron on July 21 after learning that she had converted to Christianity, sources said. Naasike Maliyati of Nampologoma, Butaleja District said she attended an evangelistic crusade with a friend […]

Joan Onyemaechi, also known as Ada Anioma, was kidnapped from Asaba, Delta state, Nigeria on July 30, 2024. (Facebook) ABUJA, Nigeria (Christian Daily International–Morning Star News) – Gunmen in southern Nigeria on Tuesday (July 30) kidnapped a prominent Christian woman and wife of the attorney general of Delta state from a church Bible study in an […]

Street in Kismayo, Lower Juba Region, Somalia. (Mr.Matija.kovak, creative commons) NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – Muslim relatives of a convert from Islam in Somalia attacked a second time in Lower Juba Region on July 8, wounding him in the stomach, breaking his wife’s ankle and beating his children. Mohammad Abdul had survived a May 5 […]

Location of Banten Province, Indonesia. (TUBS, Creative Commons) SURABAYA, Indonesia (Morning Star News) – Officials in Indonesia said they regretted the surfacing of a video showing Muslims halting worship of a church service in March, as authorities have since provided a temporary site for the congregation’s services. Soma Atmaja of the Tangerang Regency government said […]