PALISSA, Uganda (Morning Star News) — A Christian father of five in eastern Uganda who supported 10 children whose families had disowned them for leaving Islam was killed on Wednesday night (Dec. 2). One of three men who attacked Patrick Ojangole at 9:30 p.m. reproached him for failing to heed a warning to cease his […]
ROCKPORT, Maine — The vice principal of a school in Maine has apologized for a recent Facebook post in which he referred to “white Christian men” as terrorists. “The only terrorists we need to fear are domestic white ‘Christian’ men with easy access to guns,” wrote Piet Lammert of Camden Hills Regional High School wrote last Saturday, […]
GUIZHOU, China (China Aid) — More than 30 officials from several government departments attempted to raid a weekly gathering of a house church in China’s southwestern Guizhou province and ordered the church to stop meeting and pay a 100,000 Yuan (U.S. $15,650) fine on Nov. 29. Yang Hua, one of Huoshi Church’s pastors, described the […]
A Christian couple in Norway have reportedly become embroiled in a battle with social services after their five children were removed on charges that included “Christian radicalization and indoctrination.” On Nov. 16, Norway’s child welfare services, the Barnevernet, seized Marius and Ruth Bodnariu’s two daughters, two sons and their baby, Ezekiel. The two eldest children […]
KARACHI, Pakistan (Morning Star News) – Police are downplaying several signs pointing to arson in a fire reported at 3 a.m. on Tuesday (Nov. 24) at the office of a Christian cable TV station in Karachi, sources said. Gawahi Television chief Sarfraz William said the fire at the popular Christian channel’s office in Akhtar Colony was […]
ISTANBUL, Turkey (Morning Star News) – Two Christians in Yemen, both converts from Islam, have been ambushed and killed because of their faith, according to sources close to the victims. In Taiz, a city with a pre-war population of 600,000 people in southwest Yemen, at least one member of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) […]
TURLOCK, Calif. — A Christian campus organization that lost recognition from a California university after being accused of “religious discrimination” for not allowing non-Christians to hold leadership positions has regained its rights to meet on campus. As previously reported, in September of last year, Chi Alpha’s chapter at California State University-Stanislaus was informed by the university that […]
YANGON, Burma (Morning Star News) – Artillery and air strikes by Burma (Myanmar) government forces on rebel bases in Kachin state in the past week displaced hundreds of ethnic Kachin, a predominantly Christian people long targeted in part because they are not Buddhist. Lama Yaw of the Kachin Baptist Convention, who visited areas near Mohnyin where […]
(The Mirror) — This is the shocking moment a man is brutally assaulted in what police are treating as a religious hate crime. And dad-of-six Nissar Hussain says he has been leaving in fear for years since converting from Islam to Christianity. The 49-year-old suffered a shattered knee cap and broken hand when two hooded […]
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – A secret Christian in coastal Kenya escaped Muslim in-laws who last week sought to stab him and took his wife and children, less than two weeks after Islamic extremists further south torched two church buildings, sources said. Former Muslim Hassan Ali said he narrowly escaped death when Muslim neighbors and […]