(Morning Star News) – Muslim extremists killed a pastor in northern Uganda on Oct. 31 after he compared Christianity and Islam in a radio broadcast, sources said. David Omara, 64-year-old pastor of Christian Church Center and a well-known radio preacher in the area, was beaten and strangled after finishing his broadcast in Aduku, Kwania District […]
(The Barnabas Fund) — Survivors of a massacre at a school in the western Oromia region of Ethiopia reported that at least 54 ethnic Amhara, most of whom are thought to have been Christians, died, according to a body count made after gunmen opened fire on a gathering of about 200. Around 60 armed terrorists, […]
India (International Christian Concern) – In late October, a Christian pastor and his family in southern India were attacked by a mob of Hindu religious fanatics. In the days following the attack, the fanatics falsely accused the pastor of committing blasphemy and instituted a social boycott against the Christian family. On Oct. 20, Pastor Vasu […]
China (International Christian Concern) – Ran Yunfei, a Chinese writer and a high-profile democracy activist who converted to Christianity in 2016, was briefly summoned on Nov. 4 by the police after he gave a lecture in the webinar titled “Christianity and Chinese Culture.” Ran, who was baptized by Pastor Wang Yi at Chengdu’s Early Rain […]
JOS, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – Having taken over more than 100 once predominantly Christian villages in four counties of southern Kaduna state, Nigeria, Muslim Fulani militia killed three more Christians in late October, a rights advocate said. Fulani attacks in the areas have driven 50,000 people to live with relatives or in camps for Internally Displaced […]
Indonesia (International Christian Concern) – According to an independent investigation, a soldier from the Indonesian Army tortured and shot dead a 67-year-old Protestant pastor during a search for missing weapons and the whereabouts of separatists last September in Indonesia’s restive Papua province. Pastor Yeremia Zanambani was found dead with gunshot wounds in a pig shed […]
JOS, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – A pastor abducted in northeastern Nigeria was released on Friday (Oct. 30), while Muslim Fulani herdsmen in Nasarawa state have kidnapped a 6-year-old Christian boy after killing his father, sources said. Militants from the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) terrorist group released Polycarp Zongo, kidnapped on Oct. 19, after negotiations that were […]
China (International Christian Concern) – On Oct. 25, the pastor of Enguang Church in Guizhou’s Guiyang city and his wife were allegedly taken away from their home at night by local security officials. According to Twitter user @luohanguo, pastor Wu Xuechao who serves at the house church was first brought home last Sunday. After the […]
JOS, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – A church pastor in Nigeria who went missing on Oct. 19 has been captured along with two Christian women by militants of the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP), according to a video released by the terrorist group. In the video clip uploaded on YouTube, Polycarp Zongo of the Church of Christ In Nations (COCIN) […]
JOS, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – Fulani herdsmen wounded two Christians in north-central Nigeria on Sunday, a little more than week after herdsmen in the country’s northeast killed another church member while a Christian woman and pastor were kidnapped, sources said. Herdsmen shot and wounded the two Christians at Ratsat-Rat Junction in Plateau state’s Vatt village, Barkin […]