Location of Mayuge District, Uganda. (OpenStreetMap contributors, Jarry1250, NordNordWest) NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – Relatives of two brothers who accepted Christ in May beat them for leaving Islam earlier this month in eastern Uganda, sources said. Janati Tisuubira, 22, and his 33-year-old brother Ibrahim Musa Kakembo, received hospital care for nearly week after family members […]
Location of Benue state, Nigeria. (Profoss, derived from original by Uwe Dedering, Creative Commons) ABUJA, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – Fulani herdsmen on June 3 and 4 killed 46 Christians in attacks on a cluster of villages in Benue state, Nigeria, sources said. The herdsmen invaded Imande Mbakange village in the early hours of June 3, […]
Christians (from left) Jungpao Touthang, Kaiman Guite and Domkhohoi Haokip were killed in Manipur state, India on June 9, 2023. (ITLF) NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – A surge of ethnic violence with a growing religious component in northeastern India led to the killing on Friday (June 9) of a woman in her church building and […]
Central Mosque, Jos, Nigeria. (El-siddeeq lame, Creative Commons) MANGU, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – At least 300 Christians have been massacred in one county of Plateau state, Nigeria since mid-May, including the killing of two pastors on Sunday (June 4), sources said. In Mangu County, Fulani terrorists killed the Rev. Shadrack Ayuba of the Assembly of […]
Pastor R. Kirubendran, wife Manju Tiruvendram and 18-month-old daughter. (Morning Star News) NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – Having spent a month in jail on baseless charges before his release on bail, Pastor R. Kirubendran was baffled at hostilities from police, media and villagers after serving a community in northern India without problem for several years. […]
Keffi, Nasarawa state, Nigeria. (Elubo NG, Creative Commons) ABUJA, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – Fulani herdsmen killed a church pastor, his wife and 41 other people in an attack last month on two predominantly Christian villages in Nasarawa state, Nigeria, sources said. The Rev. Daniel Danbeki of the Evangelical Church Winning All (ECWA) in Takalafiya village, […]
Noman Masih. (Morning Star News via defense counsel) LAHORE, Pakistan (Morning Star News) – A court in Bahawalpur, Pakistan on Tuesday (May 30) handed the death penalty to a 22-year-old Christian on an unsubstantiated conviction under the country’s blasphemy laws, sources said. Lazar Allah Rakha, attorney for Noman Masih, said that the sessions court announced its […]
Location of Kasese District, Uganda. (OpenStreetMap contributors, Jarry1250, NordNordWest, Creative Commons) NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – A Muslim upset with his wife’s conversion to Christianity in western Uganda denied her food and left her in a national park with wild animals, she said. Sharifa Muhando, 27, of Kasese town, said her husband beat her and […]
(The Telegraph) — A toddler was sentenced to life imprisonment in North Korea after the child’s family was found in possession of a Bible, according to a new report by the US State Department. Although the incident took place in 2009, it has been highlighted in the department’s new report on international religious freedoms this […]
Medan, North Sumatra. (Flickr, Creative Commons) SURABAYA, Indonesia (Morning Star News) – Muslim mobs on May 19 stopped Christians from worship in two cities of Indonesia’s Sumatra Island, sources said. Muslims reportedly disrupted Christians as they worshipped in a café in a village in Binjai, 13 miles from Medan, capital of North Sumatra Province. In […]