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 […]
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. […]