by Publisher | Feb 26, 2015 | Egypt, News |
After family tortures him, Christian tracked by relative, consulate and violent Islamists. NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – When Ahmed Ali, a Christian convert from Islam, fled his native Egypt to a sub-Saharan nation after months of torture by his father and...
by Publisher | Feb 25, 2015 | Kazakhstan, News |
By Mushfig Bayram, Forum 18 News Service. Kazakhstan continues to jail people for exercising the right to freedom of religion or belief, Forum 18 News Service notes. Vasiliy Kliver, a Baptist in Aktobe Region was on 5 February given a 5-day jail term for non-payment...
by Publisher | Feb 25, 2015 | News, Turkey |
Co-founder of Bible correspondence course faced threat of deportation. Istanbul, Turkey Morning Star News – After a five-year court battle, a U.S. evangelist singled out by Turkey’s Ministry of the Interior for deportation because of his outreach activities has...
by Publisher | Feb 20, 2015 | Belarus, News |
By Olga Glace, Forum 18 News Service Catholics responded vigorously to accusations by the senior state religious affairs official that foreign Catholic priests working in Belarus often break the law, Forum 18 News Service notes. “They don’t like our...
by Publisher | Feb 20, 2015 | India, News |
Accusation of child molestation in one case, tearing of woman’s clothes in another. NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – Hindu extremists in India this month sought to shame and malign Christians, as four women were publicly beaten in one village and a teacher was falsely...
by Publisher | Feb 19, 2015 | Laos, News |
Authorities try to stop spread of Christianity by abusing law, group says. (Morning Star News) – A pastor and four other church leaders in Laos were convicted last week of being “illegal doctors” because they prayed for a sick woman who later died. The People’s Court...
by Publisher | Feb 18, 2015 | News, Sudan |
Months of harassment culminate in deprivation of congregation’s ministry property. JUBA, South Sudan (Morning Star News) – The Sudanese government today helped Muslim investors take over the remaining property of Khartoum Bahri Evangelical Church in Khartoum North,...
by Publisher | Feb 16, 2015 | Egypt, Libya, News |
Battle against Islamic State expands to Libya; U.S. help sought. ISTANBUL, Turkey (Morning Star News)– After months of indifference to Islamist militants killing Egyptian Christians in Libya, Egypt bombed Islamic extremist targets in Libya and declared seven days of...
by Publisher | Feb 13, 2015 | News, Pakistan |
Officials fear ‘violent reaction’ if they examine cases of non-Muslims. LAHORE, Pakistan (Morning Star News) – Punjab Province has excluded Christians from a list of people accused without basis of blaspheming Islam who will have their cases expedited for...
by Publisher | Feb 12, 2015 | News, Sudan |
In Khartoum, another Christian-owned building confiscated. JUBA, South Sudan (Morning Star News) – Sudan’s bombing of a civilian area in the Nuba Mountains on Friday (Feb. 6) killed a Christian woman who was nine months pregnant, a relative said. Naheed Saeed Komi, a...
by Publisher | Feb 7, 2015 | India, News |
Free speech muffled as officers quickly force demonstrators onto buses. NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – Delhi police manhandled nuns, priests, lay leaders and human rights activists in temporarily detaining nearly 300 Christian protestors on Thursday (Feb. 5), sources...
by Publisher | Feb 6, 2015 | News, Uganda |
Sisters who became Christians on Sunday deprived of food until escape on Tuesday. Nairobi, Kenya (Morning Star News) – The uncle of two Muslim girls in eastern Uganda who put their faith in Christ on Sunday (Feb. 1) beat them and locked them in a room without...
