Sheikhupura Fort, built in 1607 in Sheikhupura city, Pakistan. (Bhaur, Creative Commons) LAHORE, Pakistan (Christian Daily International–Morning Star News) – A pastor and his family have gone into hiding after a Muslim neighbor who raped his 14-year-old daughter tried to kidnap her and force her to convert to Islam and marry her, he said. The daughter […]
Apostasy laws worldwide. (RLoutfy, Creative Commons) NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – A Muslim teacher at an Islamic school in eastern Uganda who became a Christian on Oct. 4 was killed on Oct. 21, area sources said. Wanjala Hamidu was a teacher at Swidiki Islamic School in Nankoma, Bugiri District, four kilometers from his home in […]
Maj.-Gen. Zamani Lekwot released book on 1992 religious violence. (Christian Daily International-Morning Star News) ABUJA, Nigeria (Christian Daily International–Morning Star News) – A former Army general in Nigeria said his death sentence following riots more than 30 years ago was the result of Muslim military leaders controlling a sham tribunal. Maj.-Gen. Zamani Lekwot, a Christian, spoke […]
A Louisiana law requiring schools to display the Ten Commandments in every classroom has been temporarily blocked by a federal judge, who ruled it coercive and unconstitutional. The law, set to take effect January 1, was challenged by nine families, who argue it violates the First Amendment by endorsing religion in public schools. The state’s […]
Children in fields in Kaliro District, Uganda. (Isac Fridlund, Creative Commons) NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – A local group of Muslim extremists on Oct. 30 killed an evangelist in eastern Uganda after he and another Christian refused to convert to Islam, the other Christian said. After three days of a scheduled six-day evangelistic event at […]
Badshahi Mosque, Lahore, Pakistan. (Romero Maia, Creative Commons) LAHORE, Pakistan (Christian Daily International–Morning Star News) – Fearing Islamist rage, residents in an area of Lahore on Nov. 3 fled their homes after a Christian was arrested under Pakistan’s blasphemy laws, sources said. Panic spread in Ward No. 12 of Kahna in Lahore, Punjab Province, after area […]
11/8/2024 Iran (International Christian Concern) — After serving more than one year of his 10-year prison sentence, an Armenian-Iranian pastor recently gained freedom from Tehran’s Evin Prison following public outcry. Pastor Anooshavan Avedian, imprisoned on Sept. 18, 2023, was acquitted of his crimes and released on Sept. 24, 2024. Before his release, International Christian Concern, The […]
Location of Mangu LGA, Plateau state, Nigeria. (Wikimedia maps, Mapa data © OpenStreetMap contributor) ABUJA, Nigeria (Christian Daily International–Morning Star News) – Fulani herdsmen on Sunday (Nov. 3) ambushed and killed a Christian in Plateau state, Nigeria, a week after a Christian and his mother in the Jos North area were slain, sources said. In Daika […]
Kaduna state, Nigeria. (Map data © Google 2024) ABUJA, Nigeria (Christian Daily International–Morning Star News) – Fulani herdsmen on Friday (Nov. 1) kidnapped four Christians in an attack on villages in north-central Nigeria, sources said. One woman was among the four Christians abducted from two predominantly Christian villages, Mai-Iddo and Arikon, in Kachia County, Kaduna state, […]
Location of River Nile state in Sudan. (TUBS, Creative Commons) JUBA, South Sudan (Morning Star News) – Muslims in Sudan’s River Nile state on Oct. 19 drove 34 displaced Christians from their homes, sources said. The Muslim residents of the El Matamah area of Al-Makniya told the Christians of Nuba Mountains ancestry who had fled military […]