by Publisher | Jun 29, 2015 | Belarus, News
By Olga Glace, Forum 18 News Service Nearly three weeks after police and riot police raided a Sunday worship service in Gomel in south-east Belarus, a court fined Pastor Sergei Nikolaenko for leading an unapproved religious meeting. A court official refused to put...
by Publisher | Jun 29, 2015 | Cuba, News
Reverend Yiorvis Bravo, a national leader of the Apostolic Movement in Cuba, has been banned from travelling as the government continues to target church properties for expropriation. He was notified on 28 June that he is banned from traveling outside the country...
by Publisher | Jun 26, 2015 | Analysis, Philippines
President’s solution to decades of violence could cause more tensions, critics say. MINDANAO, Philippines (Morning Star News) – Christians and others in the southern Philippines have expressed strong fears that legislation creating an Islamic sub-state on...
by Publisher | Jun 25, 2015 | India, News
Christians protest official downplay of severity, religious motives of attack. NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – Contrary to police reports, a nun with her face covered said yesterday at a press conference in Chhattisgarh state that two men raped her at a medical clinic...
by Publisher | Jun 23, 2015 | News, Uganda
Wife of former sheikh succumbs after sister-in-law feeds her. NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – A mother of 11 who left Islam for Christianity was poisoned to death last week in a village in eastern Uganda, area sources said. Namumbeiza Swabura, mother of a...
by Publisher | Jun 22, 2015 | News, Tanzania
Pastor forced to change homes four times in two years. ZANZIBAR, Tanzania (Morning Star News) – Hard-line Muslims on the semi-autonomous island of Zanzibar off the coast of Tanzania have driven a pastor and father of five into hiding and taken over his church’s...
by Publisher | Jun 19, 2015 | Israel, News
Monk, volunteer recovering from smoke, fumes. Istanbul, Turkey Morning Star News – An elderly monk is recovering from smoke and toxic fumes he inhaled in an arson attack on a Galilee church yesterday as Israeli police investigate the blaze that caused more that...
by Publisher | Jun 18, 2015 | Belarus, News
By Felix Corley, Forum 18 News Service Belarus has for the first time adopted an Alternative Service Law, to take effect from 1 July 2016. The Law will allow some but not all young men who are conscientious objectors to perform a civilian alternative service instead...
by Publisher | Jun 17, 2015 | News, Pakistan
‘Bad intent’ must be proven for conviction under new legislation. LAHORE, Pakistan(Morning Star News) – The Pakistani government has finished drafting a bill to combat abuse of blasphemy laws to which three Christians in the past month alone have fallen prey, sources...
by Publisher | Jun 17, 2015 | News, Turkey
Some congregation members suspect assailant did not act alone. Istanbul, Turkey Morning Star News – Some members of a congregation in Istanbul suspect a man who attacked their church building last week did not act alone. Church members said they suspect the...
by Publisher | Jun 15, 2015 | Belarus, News
By Felix Corley, Forum 18 News Service On 31 May police in Belarus with OMON riot police raided the Reformed Orthodox Transfiguration Church’s meeting for Sunday worship, held in rented premises in Gomel. On 11 June officials banned the Church from renting...
by Publisher | Jun 15, 2015 | News, South Sudan, Sudan
Church leaders put in separate, high-security cells. JUBA, South Sudan (Morning Star News) – Prosecutors produced no new evidence today in the trial of two South Sudanese pastors facing the death penalty on charges of undermining the Sudanese constitution, sources...
