by Publisher | Dec 28, 2014 | News, South Sudan, Sudan
The Rev. Yat Michael detained since Dec. 21. JUBA, South Sudan (Morning Star News) JUBA, South Sudan (Morning Star News) – Security personnel in Sudan have held a pastor from South Sudan since Dec. 21 after he delivered a sermon at an embattled North Khartoum church....
by Publisher | Dec 23, 2014 | India, News
Violence, arrests and Hindu extremist ‘reconversion’ events bring tensions. NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – Christmas-related anti-Christian violence and harassment have begun as Hindu extremists undertake an aggressive effort to “reconvert” tribal people to Hinduism,...
by Publisher | Dec 2, 2014 | Kenya, News
2 December 2014 Al Shabaab Islamists Again Attack Non-Muslims near Mandera, Kenya, Killing 36. Members of the Islamic extremist insurgent group Al Shabaab early this morning killed 36 non-Muslims, most of them Christian, in an attack in northern Kenya, sources said....
by Publisher | Nov 30, 2014 | India, News
30 November 2014 Church leaders in India have asked national and Chhattisgarh state officials to reverse a ban on non-Hindu religious activity that more than 50 villages have reportedly adopted. Hindu extremists in Odisha state on Oct. 25 summoned a Christian family...
by Publisher | Nov 26, 2014 | News, Pakistan
26 November 2014 Police here tortured a Christian to death on Saturday (Nov. 22) while the father of five was in custody on drug and alcohol charges fabricated without evidence, relatives said. Four policemen led by Assistant Sub-Inspector Muhammad Rauf raided the...
by Publisher | Nov 7, 2014 | Israel, News
Christians bloodied, bruised; car stolen. Istanbul, Turkey Morning Star News – Police have refused to respond to a series of attacks on a church in East Jerusalem, including theft of a member’s car on Sunday (Nov. 2) and an assault in October that bloodied and...
by Publisher | Nov 1, 2014 | Analysis |
Pray if you can figure out how. (Morning Star News) – Any of you who regularly follow persecution news may find that it gets hard to read after a while. In response to reader requests on how to deal with so much horrific news – one becomes either despondent or...
by Publisher | Oct 16, 2014 | News, Pakistan
Pakistani Christian Asia Bibi has today lost her appeal against a death sentence for blasphemy. The campaign to free the first Christian woman to face execution under Pakistan’s notorious blasphemy laws will now be taken to the Supreme Court. Lahore High Court this...
by Publisher | Oct 10, 2014 | News, Nigeria
10 October 2014 JOS, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – Adamu, 28, bears a scar on the back of his neck where two members of the Islamic extremist group Boko Harm tried to slaughter him. A member of the Church of the Brethren in Nigeria (EYN) in Gwoza, Borno state in...
by Publisher | Oct 6, 2014 | Israel, News
Banned from country for 10 years, Barry Barnett fights for rights. Istanbul, Turkey Morning Star News – A British messianic Jew deported from Israel last year for participating in an evangelistic outreach to Jews confirmed that he will appeal his case to the...
by Publisher | Sep 30, 2014 | Israel, News
Palestinian militants seek to stop ministry and seize property, Christians say. Istanbul, Turkey Morning Star News – In the latest of several attacks on a congregation in East Jerusalem, young men with ties to a Palestinian militant group wired shut a church...
by Publisher | Sep 16, 2014 | Analysis, Belarus
By Olga Glace, Forum 18 News Service Belarus continues to keep religious communities within an invisible ghetto of regulation, Forum 18 News Service has found. The state closely controls people meeting together to exercise their religious freedom, forcing many...
