Location of Jos East LGA, Plateau state, Nigeria. (Map data © 2023 Google) ABUJA, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – Gunmen early Wednesday (Sept. 13) kidnapped a pastor and two other Christians in Jos East County, Plateau state, Nigeria, sources said. The Rev. Usman Umaru of the Evangelical Church Winning All (ECWA) was kidnapped at about 5:40 […]
Central Mosque, Jos, Nigeria. (El-siddeeq lame, Creative Commons) ABUJA, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – Fulani herdsmen and other terrorists on Sunday (Sept. 10) killed 10 Christians in Plateau state, Nigeria, where 27 others were slain in August, sources said. The terrorists attacked Kulben village, Mangu County, at about 8:40 p.m., an area resident said. “Armed Fulani […]
Badshahi Mosque, Lahore, Pakistan. (Romero Maia, Creative Commons) LAHORE, Pakistan (Morning Star News) – The three young children of a Christian couple jailed on baseless charges of desecrating the Koran in Lahore, Pakistan last week have no relatives to care for them and are extremely upset, a rights advocate. Shaukat Masih, 33, and his 28-year-old wife […]
Taraba state, Nigeria. (Profoss Uwe Dedering, Creative Commons) ABUJA, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – Terrorists entering a town in Taraba state, Nigeria at about 2 a.m. on Sunday (Sept. 10) killed two Christians, wounded several others and kidnapped six people, sources said. “Six Christians were kidnapped by terrorists in the Mile Six area of Jalingo,” area […]
09/05/2023 Nepal (International Christian Concern) — An attack on a church in Nepal’s Lumbini Province on Monday was just the latest in a string of recent violence against Christians in the country. The church is in the southern Nawalparasi district of Lumbini along the border with India’s Uttar Pradesh state and was one of two […]
Telukbayur Harbour, Padang, West Sumatra, Indonesia. (Gombang, Creative Commons) SURABAYA, Indonesia (Morning Star News) – A machete-wielding Muslim threatened to kill members of a house church in Indonesia as he and family members on Aug. 29 broke up a worship service, sources said. In West Sumatra Province, the Sola Gratia congregation of Bethel Indonesia Church […]
The Rev. Eleazar Sidhu was shot in Jaranwala, Pakistan on Sunday, Sept. 3, 2023. (Akmal Bhatti for Morning Star News) LAHORE, Pakistan (Morning Star News) – A pastor was shot and wounded by hardline Muslims on Sunday evening (Sept. 3) in Jaranwala, Pakistan a week after Islamist slogans were written on the walls of his church building, […]
Supreme Court of Pakistan in Islamabad. (Usman.pg, Creative Commons) LAHORE, Pakistan (Morning Star News) – The Supreme Court of Pakistan on Tuesday (Aug. 29) ordered the government to respond to a petition to stop courts from allowing forced conversion and marriage of minority girls in verdicts that act as covers for child rape, sources said. Justice […]
Chikun County, Nigeria. (Wikimedia maps, Map data © OpenStreetMap) ABUJA, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – Two Christians were kidnapped on Friday (Aug. 25) in Kaduna state, Nigeria, two days after gunmen described as terrorists killed a Baptist pastor in another area of the state, sources said. Terrorists on Friday night (Aug. 25) invaded the predominantly Christian […]
Hand injuries Robert Faisali Miya sustained in Aug. 11, 2023 assault in Busolwe, Uganda. (Morning Star News) NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – Hard-line Muslims at an open-air evangelistic event in eastern Uganda on Aug. 11 assaulted a preacher and more than 20 other Christians for his teaching about Christ’s divinity, sources said. Robert Faisali Miya, […]