Location of Blue Nile state, Sudan. (TUBS, Creative Commons) JUBA, South Sudan (Morning Star News) – Authorities in southeastern Sudan on Friday (Feb. 17) arrested a church leader for preaching to Muslims, according to a local Christian group. Yousif Ayoub Hussein Ali was detained during an open-air worship event in the Blue Nile state capital of […]
Fire damage to church building in Chaukipura village, Madhya Pradesh, India, discovered on Feb. 12, 2023. (Morning Star News) NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – Plans to burn several church buildings in central India came to an end on Sunday (Feb. 12) after officers arrested three Hindu extremists, but not before they had set one structure […]
North Darfur state, Sudan. (Creative Commons) JUBA, South Sudan (Morning Star News) – An evangelist in western Sudan has gone into a hiding following attempted attacks by Muslim extremists, he said. Ahmad Adam Mohamad, 49, of North Darfur state went into a hiding after his Muslim uncles accused him of apostasy earlier this month. He disciples […]
(Yahoo! News) — Old people in Japan should kill themselves to avoid burdening the state, a professor at Yale University has said. Yusuke Narita, an assistant professor of economics, has also suggested that euthanasia could be made compulsory. Last year, official statistics in Japan revealed that over-75s accounted for 15 per cent of the country’s population for the first […]
ECI church building in Fatehpur, Uttar Pradesh, India. (Morning Star News) NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – A pastor in northern India remains in jail after more than three months despite winning bail because Hindu extremists filed new false charges against him, his wife said. “We are going through troubled times, and we don’t know when […]
Sunita Masih after acid attack on Feb. 1, 2023, in Karachi, Pakistan. (Morning Star News courtesy of family) LAHORE, Pakistan (Morning Star News) – A Muslim in Karachi, Pakistan on Wednesday (Feb. 1) threw acid on a 19-year-old Christian woman for refusing his pressure to enter into relationship and convert to Islam, sources said. Sunita Masih, […]
Anti-Christian riots in Chhattisgarh have left thousands of Christians homeless 2/3/2023 India (International Christian Concern) — Christians in the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh continue to reel from a devastating attack from radical Hindu nationals that decimated their communities late last year. The attacks left more than 2,500 tribal Christians homeless. “There wasn’t even a […]
1/31/2023 Wasg (International Christian Concern)—The 2023 International Religious Freedom (IRF) Summit brings together a broad coalition that passionately supports religious freedom around the globe for a three-day in-person event in Washington, D.C., beginning Jan. 31 to Feb. 1. For much of the conference, participants will attend breakout sessions to learn about these topics from […]
Benue River in Makurdi, Benue state, Nigeria. (Bandele Femi, Ashinze, Creative Commons) ABUJA, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – After authorities in Nigeria ignored warnings that thousands of cattlemen were arriving in Benue state, suspected herdsmen on Saturday (Jan. 28) attacked two villages there and killed 12 Christians, sources said. The assailants attacked Ichembe and Mbaigbe villages […]
Pastor Jerry Hinjari was killed in Yola, Adamawa state, Nigeria on Jan. 26, 2023. (Facebook) ABUJA, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – A church pastor in northeast Nigeria was slain on Thursday (Jan. 26), and anti-Christian violence continued to grow in the southern part of the country with the killing of two Christians in Delta state, sources […]