by Publisher | Jan 30, 2014 | India, News
30 January 2014 The gang that knocked on the door of a pastor’s home in Andhra Pradesh state and stabbed him to death earlier this month consisted of Hindu extremists, authorities said. State police have arrested seven of the eight members of the Hindu Vahini group...
by Publisher | Jan 28, 2014 | News, Nigeria
28 January 2014 Authorities suspected Islamic extremist group Boko Haram was responsible for an attack on a Catholic church service in Adamawa state on Sunday (Jan. 26) that reportedly left 45 people dead. Sources told Morning Star News that 22 bodies were recovered...
by Publisher | Jan 23, 2014 | Algeria, News
Judge in divorce case suggests he recant in order to reconcile. TIZI OUZOU, Algeria (Morning Star News) – A Muslim woman in this northern Algerian city seeks to divorce a convert from Islam because of his new faith, while her brother and lawyer suggest he should...
by Publisher | Jan 21, 2014 | News, Nigeria
21 January 2014 Islamic extremists have attacked villages in three states in Nigeria every Sunday this month, killing at least 15 Christians. Christian leaders in the Agatu Local Government Area of central Nigeria’s Benue state said ethnic Fulani herdsmen were...
by Publisher | Jan 18, 2014 | Indonesia, News
18 January 2014 A small church in Central Java, Indonesia that has struggled for more than a decade to keep its worship facility celebrated a re-opening last month, only to see it shut before Christmas due to protests from hard-line Islamists. The 41 Christians of the...
by Publisher | Jan 16, 2014 | Israel, News
Incident deeply disturbing for Messianic Jew with deep ties to country. Cairo, Egypt Morning Star News – As Barry Barnett’s plane lifted off from Tel Aviv, Israel’s Ben Gurion International Airport last month, he sat torn with emotion. Over the prior two weeks...
by Publisher | Jan 14, 2014 | Kazakhstan, News
14 January 2014 Two Baptists were imprisoned for 48 hours each in Kazakhstan’s northern Akmola Region for refusing to pay fines handed down in 2013 to punish them for exercising their right to freedom of religion or belief. Vyacheslav Cherkasov and Zhasulan...
by Publisher | Jan 13, 2014 | Belarus, News
13 January 2014 Three Baptist leaders are likely to face administrative punishments after a police raid on a Council of Churches meeting for worship in Gomel in south-eastern Belarus, Forum 18 News Service has learned. Police interrupted the pre-Christmas service,...
by Publisher | Jan 10, 2014 | Central African Republic, Egypt, Iran, Kenya, Libya, News, Nigeria, Pakistan, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Vietnam
10 January 2014 Last year Egypt saw its greatest level of attacks on Christians; more Christians were killed in Syria’s civil war than anywhere else; and an Islamist rebel take-over in the Central African Republic brought new atrocities to the historically unstable...
by Publisher | Jan 8, 2014 | Kazakhstan, News
8 January 2014 Twelve icons and three Bibles seized from a commercial bookseller in Oral (Uralsk) in West Kazakhstan Region in October 2013 have still not been returned. The bookseller is due to face an administrative court where he may be fined several weeks’...
by Publisher | Jan 8, 2014 | News, Nigeria
8 January 2014 Survivors of Monday’s (Jan. 6) slaughter of 33 Christians in a village in Nigeria’s Plateau state said Special Task Force (STF) soldiers stationed to protect them turned their weapons on those fleeing the attack. Speaking from her hospital bed with...
by Publisher | Jan 7, 2014 | News, Nigeria
7 January 2014 Muslim extremists had once prior widowed Faith Kore Usman, a 29-year-old mother of five children, before Fulani herdsmen killed her second husband on New Year’s Eve. As 34-year-old Kore Usman and other Christians were praising God in a field near their...
