Persecution

5/25/2024 Pakistan (International Christian Concern) — Around 7 a.m., an angry mob attacked an elderly Christian man after claims that he had burned pages from a Quran circulated throughout the Mujahid colony in Gillwala, a predominantly…

Discriminatory ad for sanitation workers in Pakistan. (Christian Daily International-Morning Star News) LAHORE, Pakistan (Christian Daily International–Morning Star News) – An ad for sanitation workers targeting Christians in…

Burial on Christmas Day, 2023 of Christians slain in NTV village, Plateau state, Nigeria. (Christian Daily News-Morning Star News) ABUJA, Nigeria (Christian Daily International–Morning Star News) – Following a rights group report…

The Rev. Paul Musa and wife in video released May 5, 2024. (Christian Daily International-Morning Star News screenshot) ABUJA, Nigeria (Christian Daily International–Morning Star News) – A video of a pastor and his wife kidnapped in…

5/8/2024 China (International Christian Concern) — Since two leaders of Ganquan Church in Hefei, Anhui, were arrested last fall, their wives and members of their church family have pleaded for their release. Those pleas have grown more…

Sultan Bello Mosque in the city of Kaduna, Kaduna state, Nigeria. (Anasskoko, Creative Commons) ABUJA, Nigeria (Christian Daily International–Morning Star News) – Fulani herdsmen on Sunday (May 5) raided a village in southern Kaduna…

National Mosque in Abuja, Nigeria. (Creative Commons) ABUJA, Nigeria (Christian Daily International–Morning Star News) – Fulani herdsmen killed 28 Christians from April 20 to April 22 in an area of Benue state, Nigeria, residents…

Homes torched in Al-Fawakher village, Samalut, Egypt, on April 23, 2024. (Screenshot from video on X) CAIRO, Egypt (Morning Star News) – Attacks on two predominantly Christian villages in Egypt last week came after days of rising…

Nigeria’s Plateau state Gov. Caleb Muftwang. (Screenshot from video on X) ABUJA, Nigeria (Christian Daily International–Morning Star News) – Fulani herdsmen attacked residents of a village in central Nigeria’s Plateau state as they…

Punjab Assembly building in Lahore, Pakistan. (Sunni Person, Creative Commons) LAHORE, Pakistan (Christian Daily International–Morning Star News) – A bill designed to prevent child marriages in Pakistan’s most populated province has…