As police looked on, a Hindu nationalist mob in India subjected a pastor to dehumanizing brutality, damaging his hearing in the process as they tried to force him to worship a Hindu deity
WASHINGTON (Morning Star News) – With Islamist rebels in the Central African Republic (CAR) continuing to commit atrocities unchecked, including violence against Christians, U.N. and rights officials are calling for outside military help to establish rule of law. Up to 80 percent of those in the rebel group known as Seleka are foreign combatants from Chad […]
NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – Persecution of Christians is rising in Sri Lanka, where at least three attacks took place this month as the government promoted Buddhist nationalism to maintain its hold on power. The Buddhist-majority South Asian country has seen a surge of violence against religious minorities, including Christians and Muslims, while the government […]
LOS ANGELES (Morning Star News) – Local authorities in Laos are threatening Christians in three villages with expulsion unless they renounce their faith, with residents in one village calling the converts “pigs and dogs,” according to an advocacy organization. In a public meeting of Christians and others in Huay village of Atsaphangthong District, Savannakhet Province, local […]
LOS ANGELES (Morning Star News) – Amid the wave of Islamic extremist bombings that have taken place in Iraq in the past week, one aimed at a Christian member of Parliament went largely unnoticed. Catholic news agency Fides News Agency (Agenzia Fides) reports that an apparent suicide attack by car bomb in Kirkuk on Sunday (Sept. […]
At least 81 Christians attending Sunday worship service in their historic church were killed and 131 others were wounded after two Taliban suicide bombers stormed the building in northwest Pakistan ...
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – Asserting that Tanzania’s Zanzibar Island is not a place for Christians, suspected Muslim extremists threw acid on a 60-year-old Catholic priest on Friday (Sept. 13), sources said. The Rev. Joseph Anselmo Mwangamba stepped outside an Internet café on the outskirts of Zanzibar City, capital of the semi-autonomous island in the […]
LAHORE, Pakistan (Morning Star News) – The killers of Pakistan’s first Christian to become a federal cabinet member, Shahbaz Bhatti, have confessed to the crime, Bhatti’s brother and security sources said. Paul Bhatti, brother of the slain Federal Minister for Minority Affairs, told Morning Star News that security officials and a senior government minister had told […]
TIZI OUZOU, Algeria, (Morning Star News) – The swift conviction of a Christian for “proselytizing” in Morocco last week shows a harsher reality than the moderate face the country presents to the West, sources said. A court in Taounate, a town in northern Morocco of some 33,000 people about 80 kilometers (50 miles) from Fez, […]
WASHINGTON (Morning Star News) – More than five months after Islamist rebels seized control of the Christian-majority Central African Republic (CAR), Christians remain vulnerable to atrocities and the threat of imposition of Islamic law. Rebel groups and Islamist mercenaries from Chad and Sudan joined forces in December to form a militant coalition called Seleka, which took […]
COCHABAMBA, Bolivia (Morning Star News) – Protestant church leaders in Bolivia are trying to revoke a new law they say aims to “impose contrary beliefs” and “denies us the right to be a church.” Asserting that Law 351 is unconstitutional, the National Association of Evangelicals of Bolivia (ANDEB) will file suit this week before the Plurinational […]
