by Publisher | Apr 30, 2015 | India, News
Church members flee area after mob assault on men, women and children. NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – Church members have fled a village in northeast India after a vicious attack this month that seriously injured at least three Christians, including a 7-year-old...
by Publisher | Apr 24, 2015 | Ethiopia, Libya |
Militant asserts that persecution of Christians is fundamental to Islam. In a video showing the cruel execution of 28 Ethiopian Christians, the militant Sunni terrorist group Islamic State (IS) says persecution of Christians is fundamental to Islam. In the video...
by Publisher | Apr 24, 2015 | China, News
Persecution of Christians in China reached its highest level in more than a decade last year as the government cracked down on church growth perceived as a threat to Communist Party power, according to a U.S.-based advocacy group. Texas-based China Aid Association...
by Publisher | Apr 20, 2015 | India, News
Christian leaders file formal complaint of police inaction. NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – Christians sustained broken bones and wounds when Hindu extremists on April 8 attacked an open-air gospel event in Telangana state, India, sources said. Police initially...
by Publisher | Apr 17, 2015 | Kazakhstan, News
By Felix Corley, Forum 18 News Service A Baptist in Kazakhstan, Nikolai Novikov, could face up to three years in jail for refusing to pay a 2013 fine for offering religious literature which has not been censored by the state on the streets, Forum 18 News Service has...
by Publisher | Apr 16, 2015 | Analysis, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkey |
Motives for unspeakable cruelty lie in Sunni ‘End of Days’ teaching. Since summer 2014, the Islamist terrorist group ISIS – a.k.a. Islamic State – has devastated the political, geographic and combat landscape of the Middle East. At the same time, along with its...
by Publisher | Apr 16, 2015 | News, Pakistan
Official denies boy’s declaration that two Muslims set him ablaze because of his faith. LAHORE, Pakistan (Morning Star News) – A Christian boy in Pakistan told police two Muslims set him on fire because of his faith before he died from his burns Wednesday (April 15),...
by Publisher | Apr 14, 2015 | News, Uganda
Muslim assailants had warned father to close church he pastors, he says. Nairobi, Kenya (Morning Star News) – Five Muslims in eastern Uganda gang-raped the 17-year-old daughter of a pastor because the church leader ignored their warnings that he stop worship...
by Publisher | Apr 10, 2015 | India, News
Pastor ordered to vacate rented property. NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – Under pressure from Hindu extremists, local officials kept a church from meeting on Good Friday (April 3) in India’s Uttar Pradesh state and ordered the pastor to vacate the property, the church...
by Publisher | Apr 8, 2015 | Kenya, News
Survivors relate horrific details of onslaught by Al Shabaab. Nairobi, Kenya (Morning Star News) – As Kenya comes to grips with the worst attack on its soil since the 1998 bombing of the U.S. Embassy in Nairobi, survivors revealed grim details of last week’s...
by Publisher | Apr 6, 2015 | Analysis, Syria |
Christians worldwide pray as fate of kidnapped Assyrians in Syria is awaited. As the West and Middle East grapple with how to end the Islamic State (IS), an Assyrian mother who escaped Islamic State kidnapping in northeastern Syria said she does not know of the...