ABUJA, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – Suspected Muslim terrorists in northern Nigeria killed an 86-year-old Christian in his home on Aug. 2 and kidnapped two others who were later released, likely after ransom payments, sources said. The gunmen killed Daniel Yatai at his home in predominantly Christian Manchok village, Kaduna state, shortly after 11 p.m., according […]
(Barnabas Aid) — The Supreme Court in Iran has refused three Christians a retrial following their convictions for “propaganda contrary to and disturbing to the holy religion of Islam.” Iranian-Armenian “house church” pastor Anooshavan Avedian, 60, was sentenced in April 2022 to ten years in jail. This will be followed on his release by ten […]
(Barnabas Aid) — Islamist militants beheaded two Christian men during an attack on a minibus in northern Mozambique. The attack took place on July 30 near the village of Nova Zambézia in Macomia district, Cabo Delgado. The killings were claimed by the Islamic State (IS) of Mozambique, known locally as al-Shabaab. Continue reading this story […]
India (International Christian Concern) – Last week, six Christian women were arrested and jailed in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh on charges of forced conversion. According to local sources, the six women were attending a birthday celebration at a the home of a local Christian family alongside nearly 100 other Christians. During the celebratory […]
(Article 18) — A Christian convert from Karaj, near Tehran, has been arrested and remains in detention on unknown charges. Mohammad Golbaz, 34, was arrested at his motorcycle repair shop on Saturday, July 30 by more than a dozen plainclothes intelligence agents. He was then transferred to an unknown location and held incommunicado until finally […]
(Barnabas Aid) — Three Nigerian Christian women kidnapped as teenagers by Boko Haram Islamist terrorists from a school in Chibok eight years ago have been found. They were recovered with their children by the Nigerian Army during operations against Boko Haram in Borno State between June 27 and July 25. Ruth Bitrus, 24, and her […]
Funeral announcement for the Rev. Ezra Shamaki, slain on June 21, 2022 in Kaduna state, Nigeria. (Facebook) ABUJA, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – Suspected Fulani herdsmen and other terrorists in Nigeria have killed six pastors and kidnapped 27 Christians of the Evangelical Church Winning All (ECWA) in the past seven months, according to an ECWA report. […]
NEYSHABUR, Iran (Article18) — A grandfather in his late fifties who has cancer is one of four Christian converts still detained more than three weeks after their arrest at a house-church gathering in a conservative Shia Muslim region of northeast Iran. Gholamreza Keyvanmanesh is being held in Vakilabad Prison in Mashhad, a holy city for […]
NGHE AN PROVINCE, Vietnam (Morning Star News) – Severe persecution of Hmong Christians is underway in Nghe An Province in Vietnam. In the central Vietnam province, officials vying with each other to create “Christian-free zones” operate “with no conscience or humanity,” as if they were in a different country than the one whose religious freedom […]
KIBOGA, Uganda (Morning Star News) – A Christian in eastern Uganda died on July 10 from head injuries sustained in an attack by Muslim extremists the previous week, sources said. Robert Bwenje had accompanied Assistant Pastor Ambrose Mugisha of Elim Pentecostal Church in Nyamiringa village, Kapeke Sub-County, Kiboga District, to an open-air debate about Christianity and […]