by Publisher | Apr 28, 2014 | News, Sudan
28 April 2014 JUBA, South Sudan (Morning Star News) – A pregnant woman in Khartoum, Sudan raised as a Christian faces the death penalty for “leaving Islam” because her father was Muslim, sources said. Meriam Yahia Ibrahim, 27, and her Christian husband also have a...
by Publisher | Apr 25, 2014 | News, Uzbekistan
25 April 2014 In three known cases so far in 2014, local officials have backed local imams who refused to allow non-Muslims to be buried in state-owned cemeteries where their families wished to bury them, Forum 18 News Service has learned. When Protestant Christian...
by Publisher | Apr 24, 2014 | Egypt, Libya, News
24 April 2014 ISTANBUL, Turkey (Morning Star News) – The youngest cousin was carried back home in an ambulance, half dead with a bullet lodged in his skull. The next came back to the village just a month after he left, to be buried in a Coptic cemetery. Another cousin...
by Publisher | Apr 23, 2014 | Iran, News
23 April 2014 Evangelical church leader Farshid Fathi was amongst 30 prisoners who suffered injuries when guards and security agents assaulted inmates in Evin Prison, one of Iran’s most notorious jails, on 17 April. Farshid Fathi, who is serving a six year sentence on...
by Publisher | Apr 22, 2014 | News, Pakistan
22 April 2014 A 22-year-old sweeper from Lahore was shot dead by a colleague after he refused to convert to Islam. The cleaner, known as Haroon, was shot in the head after refusing to give in to the repeated demands of a security guard at the Islamic bank where they...
by Publisher | Apr 17, 2014 | China, News
The trial of Chinese Pastor Zhang Shaojie began on 10 April in Nanle County, Henan Province, but court proceedings were later suspended indefinitely, according to reports by China Aid, after Zhang’s lawyers were detained and he had to dismiss them from his case....
by Publisher | Apr 16, 2014 | News, Nigeria
16 April 2014 Islamic extremists from the insurgent Boko Haram who kidnapped more than 100 girls last night targeted a public high school in a predominantly Christian town, sources said. In Borno state, in Nigeria’s predominantly Muslim northeast where Boko Haram is...
by Publisher | Apr 15, 2014 | News, Vietnam
15 April 2014 Inciting social hostility appears to have become a key way government officials in rural Vietnam try to contain, or at least slow, the growth of Christianity among ethnic minorities, sources said. Ethnic Hmong Christians were the targets of two...
by Publisher | Apr 12, 2014 | Egypt, News
12 April 2014 A Coptic Christian teacher in Egypt allegedly shot by the teenage brother of one of his students has died, human rights activists said yesterday. Ashraf Alahm Atef Hanna, an English teacher at Marzouk Prep School in the village of Marzouk in Minya...
by Publisher | Apr 10, 2014 | Bhutan, News
10 April 2014 Two pastors in southern Bhutan have spent more than a month in jail without being formally charged. Police arrested M.B. Thapa (aka Lobzang) and Tandin Wangyal in Khapdani village in Samtse District on March 5. Minister of Home and Cultural Affairs...
by Publisher | Apr 8, 2014 | News, Syria
8 April 2014 Christians across Syria are mourning the loss of a Dutch priest who, despite grave personal danger, refused to leave the civilian population stranded in Homs. The Rev. Frans Van der Lugt, 75, a Jesuit priest, was killed Monday morning (April 7) in Homs,...
by Publisher | Apr 8, 2014 | News, Uganda
8 April 2014 Muslim relatives of a convert from Islam in a village in eastern Uganda last week tried to poison him to death, the Christian told Morning Star News. Hassan Muwanguzi, who lost his wife and job as a schoolteacher shortly after his conversion in 2003, was...
