Persecution

Funeral announcement for the Rev. Ezra Shamaki, slain on June 21, 2022 in Kaduna state, Nigeria. (Facebook) ABUJA, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – Suspected Fulani herdsmen and other terrorists have killed six pastors and kidnapped 27…

NEYSHABUR, Iran (Article18) — A grandfather in his late fifties who has cancer is one of four Christian converts still detained more than three weeks after their arrest at a house-church gathering in a conservative Shia Muslim region of…

Photo Credit: Steff Smitz/Wikimedia Commons NGHE AN PROVINCE, Vietnam (Morning Star News) – Severe persecution of Hmong Christians is underway in Nghe An Province in Vietnam. In the central Vietnam province, officials vying with each other…

Church building demolished on June 26, 2022 in Rwomuriro, Kiboga District, Uganda. (Morning Star News) NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – A Christian in eastern Uganda died on July 10 from head injuries sustained in an attack by…

The Rev. Daniel Umaru lost his two sons in attack in Adamawa state, Nigeria. (Morning Star News courtesy of family) ABUJA, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – Gunmen in northeast Nigeria shot a pastor and killed his sons in one attack and…

The newest draft of the Indonesian Government’s Criminal Code Revision has been revealed, reinforcing its anti-blasphemy laws, and creating new provisions which will disproportionately impact Christians and other religious minorities.…

Ashfaq Masih of Lahore, Pakistan was sentenced to death on July 4, 2022 under Pakistan’s blasphemy laws. (Morning Star News) LAHORE, Pakistan (Morning Star News) – A Christian bicycle mechanic in Lahore, Pakistan was sentenced to…

Darfur Region, Sudan. (NordNordWest, Creative Commons) JUBA, South Sudan (Morning Star News) – Police in Darfur Region, Sudan have arrested four Christians under a law against apostasy that was annulled two years ago, according to…

photo Credit: Radio Ozadi (Barnabas Aid) — The Tajikistan government will not register any more churches, the senior state religious affairs official has announced. Sulaymon Davlatzoda, the Chair of the State Committee for Religious Affairs…

Police dog and officer with body of Simolya Latifu, killed near Molu village, eastern Uganda on July 3, 2022. (Morning Star News) NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – Three men reviling a convert to Christianity for leading Muslims…