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 […]
Shagufta Kiran was sentenced to death under Pakistan’s blasphemy laws. (Jubilee Campaign) LAHORE, Pakistan (Christian Daily International–Morning Star News) – Muslim vigilante groups are working with federal authorities to lure young people into sharing blasphemous content on social media in order to put them behind bars, according to an investigation by Pakistan’s National Commission for Human […]
Chand Shamaun in shackles at hearing on blasphemy charges filed in June 2024. (Christian Daily International-Morning Star News) LAHORE, Pakistan (Christian Daily International–Morning Star News) – A Christian jailed since June on blasphemy and terrorism charges in Pakistan was released on bail on Oct. 23 after a high court noted glaring loopholes in the police case […]
Committee on Civil and Political Rights review of Pakistan’s human rights record in Geneva, Switzerland on Oct. 17-18, 2024. (UN Web TV) LAHORE, Pakistan (Christian Daily International–Morning Star News) – Authorities in Pakistan have failed to curb a range of human rights violations, including a sharp increase in blasphemy-related violence, the UN Human Rights Committee (UNHRC) […]
Villagers at charred home where Pastor Mukisa and family were burned to death in Namutumba District, Uganda on Oct. 13, 2024. (Morning Star News) NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – Islamist villagers in eastern Uganda burned a pastor and his family to death after he led three Muslims to faith in Christ, the pastor’s brother said. […]
Diya Iftikhar (3rd from left) with parents and attorneys after her recovery. (Christians True Spirit) LAHORE, Pakistan (Christian Daily International–Morning Star News) – A court in Pakistan on Friday (Oct. 25) returned custody of a 16-year-old Christian girl to her parents after a Muslim had kidnapped and forcibly converted/married her, sources said. Diya Iftikhar was abducted […]
Location of North Sumatra Province, Indonesia (TUBS, Creative Commons) SURABAYA, Indonesia (Morning Star News) – Police on Thursday (Oct. 17) arrested a Christian for comments he made about Islam on social media that had led hundreds of angry Muslims to besiege his home, according to local reports. The Muslim mob surrounded the home of florist Rudi […]
Destroyed home of Christian assaulted on outskirts of Kismayo, Somalia in May 2024. (Morning Star News) NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – A convert from Islam in Somalia who was attacked in May and July was again assaulted on Oct. 5 after Muslim relatives suspected him of leading Christian prayer meetings, he said. Mohammad Abdul was […]
10/18/2024 United Kingdom (International Christian Concern) — The University of Nottingham in England has issued a “trigger warning” to students studying various medieval literature, in part because of Christian themes in the texts. The Daily Mail on Sunday discovered the warning through a Freedom of Information Act request. The British university warned students that the course […]