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Herdsmen Destroy Christian Worship Building, Homes in Nigeria Terrorists attack at dawn of new year.By Christian Daily I...
07/01/2025

Herdsmen Destroy Christian Worship Building, Homes in Nigeria
Terrorists attack at dawn of new year.

By Christian Daily International-Morning Star News
ABUJA, Nigeria, January 7, 2025 (Christian Daily International-Morning Star News) – Fulani herdsmen began the new year by attacking a predominantly Christian community at dawn on Wednesday (Jan. 1) in Kaduna state, Nigeria, burning down a church building and six houses, sources said.

Area Christians were forced to flee as the herdsmen attacked Unguwar Rogo village, Kajuru County in the southern part of the state, setting the Evangelical Church Winning All (ECWA) building ablaze along with the homes, according to area residents.

“Tragic New Year’s attack, terrorists invaded one of our communities, Unguwar Rogo of Ugom community under Maro Ward, Kajuru LGA, Kaduna state,” said resident Istifanus Ma’aji in a text message to Christian Daily International-Morning Star News. “It is quite unfortunate that the terrorist herdsmen have vandalized many valuables, stole all kinds of farm products they came across, burned down about six houses, and set fire to the ECWA church after looting all the movable valuables in the church and the pastorium.”

All Christians in the community have been forced out of the village, he added.

“The year is too young for us to start like this. Please, God our Creator, intervene,” Ma’aji said.

Community leader Ishaya Onussim confirmed the reports.

“The attackers, whom we believe are Fulani herdsmen, vandalized properties, stole various farm products, burned down six houses, and set the ECWA church in Unguwar Rogo ablaze, after looting valuables from the church and its pastorium,” Onussim told Christian Daily International-Morning Star News. “All our people have fled into the bushes, abandoning their belongings in a bid to save their lives.”

Resident Zamani Ishaku identified the assailants as Fulani herdsmen who “have continually attacked our communities.”


Mansir Hassan, state police spokesman, confirmed the attack, adding, “Police personnel have been deployed to the area.”

Nigeria remained the deadliest place in the world to follow Christ, with 4,118 people killed for their faith from Oct. 1, 2022 to Sept. 30, 2023, according to Open Doors’ 2024 World Watch List (WWL) report. More kidnappings of Christians than in any other country also took place in Nigeria, with 3,300.

Nigeria was also the third highest country in number of attacks on churches and other Christian buildings such as hospitals, schools, and cemeteries, with 750, according to the report.

In the 2024 WWL of the countries where it is most difficult to be a Christian, Nigeria was ranked No. 6, as it was in the previous year.

Numbering in the millions across Nigeria and the Sahel, predominantly Muslim Fulani comprise hundreds of clans of many different lineages who do not hold extremist views, but some Fulani do adhere to radical Islamist ideology, the United Kingdom’s All-Party Parliamentary Group for International Freedom or Belief (APPG) noted in a 2020 report.

“They adopt a comparable strategy to Boko Haram and ISWAP and demonstrate a clear intent to target Christians and potent symbols of Christian identity,” the APPG report states.

Christian leaders in Nigeria have said they believe herdsmen attacks on Christian communities in Nigeria’s Middle Belt are inspired by their desire to forcefully take over Christians’ lands and impose Islam as desertification has made it difficult for them to sustain their herds.

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Photo: Remains of ECWA building set aflame in Unguwar Rogo village, Kajuru County, Nigeria, on Jan. 1, 2025. (Facebook Kaduna Political Affairs)
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Three Members of Family Burned to Death after Accepting ChristArea leader threatened to mobilize area Muslims to attack ...
06/01/2025

Three Members of Family Burned to Death after Accepting Christ
Area leader threatened to mobilize area Muslims to attack them.

By Our East Africa Correspondent
NAIROBI, Kenya, January 6, 2025 (Morning Star News) – A Muslim couple and their adult son who received Christ in November were burned to death on Dec. 26 in eastern Uganda, sources said.

In the Budini Nyanza area of Kaliro town, Kaliro District, 64-year-old Kaiga Muhammad, his wife Sawuya Kaiga and their son Swagga Amuza Kaiga, 26, had put their faith in Christ on Nov. 22 when members of an undisclosed church visited their home with the gospel.

The pastor of the church, undisclosed for security reasons, said that after the three family members received Christ’s salvation, they requested prayer for Swagga Amuza Kaiga, who was suffering from malaria.

“We prayed for the son, and immediately he was restored to good health,” the pastor told Morning Star News. “The three members of the family who gave their lives to Christ decided to keep their faith secret for fear of Muslims of the area, since Muhammad himself was a committee member in one of the mosques in Budini Nyanza zone.”

On Dec. 15, area Muslims noted Muhammad leaving the church’s worship service in a nearby village and informed area chairperson Wangule Abudu. The chairperson on Dec. 16 went to Muhammad’s home to question him, and Muhammad openly told him that he and other family members had given their lives to Christ, the pastor said.

The angry Abudu gave Muhammad one week to renounce Christianity, saying that if he refused, he would mobilize the Muslim community against the family, said a relative who was away when the parents and son accepted Christ.

“Abudu said that our family had blasphemed the name of Allah and embarrassed the Muslim community,” the family member, whose name is withheld for security reasons, told Morning Star News.

Area Muslims on Dec. 26 set ablaze the family’s house with gas and burned the three members of the family beyond recognition, said a neighbor who had arrived with others too late to save them and the structure.

Kaliro police arrived after the lives had been lost and, after investigating, arrested Wangule Abudu, 62, and Ismail Njagi, 20. The two Muslims were being kept at Kaliro central police station on charges of murder and arson, sources said.

The bodies of the deceased were taken to Bumanya Heath Centre for postmortem.

The attack was the latest of many instances of persecution of Christians in Uganda that Morning Star News has documented.

Uganda’s constitution and other laws provide for religious freedom, including the right to propagate one’s faith and convert from one faith to another. Muslims make up no more than 12 percent of Uganda’s population, with high concentrations in eastern areas of the country.

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Photo: Home where three Christians were burned to death in Budini Nyanza, Kaliro town, Uganda on Dec. 26, 2024. (Morning Star News)
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Christian Leaders in India Issue Stern Appeal to Government for Relief from ViolencePrime minister faulted for not conde...
02/01/2025

Christian Leaders in India Issue Stern Appeal to Government for Relief from Violence
Prime minister faulted for not condemning persecution.

By Christian Daily International
January 2, 2025 (Christian Daily International) – More than 400 Christian leaders in India ended 2024 with a strongly-worded appeal to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to put an end to a surge in violence against Christians that was especially heightened during the Christmas season.

Modi is a member of the Hindu nationalist Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), which has instigated much of the violence against Christians and whose activity has increased under his government.

In the Dec. 31 appeal to the government of Modi and President Smt. Draupadi Murmu, the Christian leaders stated there were more than 720 cases of violence against Christians reported to the Evangelical Fellowship of India (EFIRLC) between January and mid-December, and 760 cases recorded by United Christian Forum (UCF) through the end of November.

“It saddens us deeply that almost all political leaders from the highest [levels] in the Union government and the states have chosen not to condemn them,” stated the letter to the prime minister and president. “Rising hate speech, especially from elected officials, has emboldened acts of violence against Christians. Mobs disrupt peaceful Christian gatherings and threaten carol singers with impunity.”

The letter noted at least 14 incidents targeting Christians during the Christmas season, ranging from threats and disruptions to arrests and outright attacks, “underscoring an alarming trend of rising intolerance and hostility.”

“We cry out to you from the depths of our hearts, therefore, when we are attacked in villages and towns in several states from Chhattisgarh to Uttar Pradesh on Christmas Day, just two days after the Honorable Prime minister in his address to our prelates condemned those inciting violence and spreading disharmony which caused disruption in society,” the Christian leaders stated.

They cited systemic concerns including misuse of anti-conversion laws that have led to the arrest and harassment of more than over 110 clergy members; growing threats to religious freedoms through state actions, such as the implementation of the Healing (Prevention and Evil) Act, 2024, in Assam; escalating hate speech and harassment of Christian communities, including restrictions on peaceful prayer meetings and the distribution of religious literature; and exclusionary policies denying Dalit Christians Scheduled Caste status, perpetuating historic injustices.

They protested “the demand to delist Christian tribals from the Scheduled Tribes (ST) list, thus discriminating against them based on faith, undermining constitutional protections and social harmony.”

The Christian leaders also expressed deep concern about the crisis in Manipur state, where more than 250 lives have been lost, 360 church buildings destroyed and thousands of people displaced since May 2023.

“The appeal urges the prime minister to play a visible and active role in fostering peace and reconciliation in the region, emphasizing that the healing of Manipur is crucial for the unity and integrity of India,” the leaders said in a press statement.

The signatories called on Modi and the president to order swift and impartial investigations into aggressions against religious minorities; issue clear guidelines to state governments on protecting constitutional rights to religious freedom; initiate regular dialogue with representatives of all faith communities; and protect the fundamental right to freely profess and practice one’s faith.

“The appeal reiterates that inclusivity and harmony are vital not only for the moral fabric of the nation but also for its economic and social prosperity,” the Christian leaders said. “The statement concludes with an assurance of prayers for the country’s leaders and a commitment to building a united, peaceful, and prosperous India.”

Signatories of the appeal, which included 30 church groups, included Bishop Thomas Abraham, Bishop David Onesimu, Bishop Joab Lohara, the Rev. Dr. Richard Howell, Sr. Mary Scaria, Fr. Cedric Prakash SJ, Dr. John Dayal, Fr. Prakash Louis SJ, the Rev. Dr. Zelhou Keyho, the Rev. Dr. EH Kharkongor, Allen Brooks, the Rev. K. Losii Mao, the Rev. Dr. Akhilesh Edgar, Dr. Michael Willams, A.C. Michael and the Rev. Vijayesh Lal.

The hostile tone of the National Democratic Alliance government, led by the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), against non-Hindus, has emboldened Hindu extremists in several parts of the country to attack Christians since Modi took power in May 2014, religious rights advocates say.

Recent amendments to a law in Uttar Pradesh state prescribing severe punishments for forcible conversions are the most draconian in India, the Christian leaders’ letter stated. More than 1,000 Christians have been incarcerated under such laws, the leaders said.

“In Arunachal Pradesh, the revival and proposed implementation of the dormant Freedom of Religion Act, 1978 threatens to impose further restrictions on religious freedoms without safeguards for minority communities,” the letter stated. “In Assam, the Healing (Prevention and Evil) Act, 2024, along with the Drugs and Magic Remedies Act, is being used to target Christian pastors and church workers. Over 12 pastors, church workers, and believers have been booked under these acts.”

In addition, a recent ban on beef consumption in hotels and common gatherings has become another tool that officials and citizens use to harass Christians, they stated; hospitals and educational institutions, which count among their alumni many senior national leaders and military and civil servants, face stifling increasing scrutiny of by regulatory bodies.

“We fully support child protection measures and welcome constructive oversight, but such measures cannot become instruments of blackmail and pressure,” the letter stated. “Instances of brazen inspections of ladies’ hostels and orphanages run by nuns, coupled with arrests of nuns without due process, have spread fear and insecurity.”

They suggested the formation of comprehensive guidelines and specialized training for law enforcement personnel to ensure due process and fair investigation in all such matters.

“This must be so for everyone, and not just for us,” they stated. “This would align with your vision of justice for all and strengthen the faith of minorities in our institutions.”

They pointed out that while the freedom to distribute and sell religious texts like the Bhagavad Gita on the street is cherished and protected, Christians are routinely beaten up if they distribute the Bible or even a small part of it.

“This seems a part of the restrictions on peaceful assembly for prayers,” the letter stated. “In states like Uttar Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh, peaceful home prayer meetings and even family celebrations are disturbed, and the families are being forced out of their homes.”

India ranked 11th on Christian support organization Open Doors’ 2024 World Watch List of the countries where it is most difficult to be a Christian. The country was 31st in 2013, but its position worsened after Modi came to power.

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Photo: Nilesh Kumar was killed for his faith in Satpura village, Bihar state, India, in July 2024. (Morning Star News)
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Church Prayer Service Attacked in Sudan, Injuring 14 ChristiansParamilitary RSF militants seriously injure congregation ...
31/12/2024

Church Prayer Service Attacked in Sudan, Injuring 14 Christians
Paramilitary RSF militants seriously injure congregation members.

By Our Sudan Correspondent
NAIROBI, Kenya, December 31, 2024 (Morning Star News) – Militants of the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) attacked a church prayer service in Sudan’s Al Jazirah state on Monday (Dec. 30), wounding 14 Christians, sources said.

In the town of Al Hasaheisa, the militants mounted the assault as 177 Christians of the Sudanese Church of Christ (SCOC) were praying and fasting for the end of the military strife in Sudan, said church Secretary Joseph Suliman.

The militants of the Islamist RSF, which has been battling the equally Islamist Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) since April 2023, stormed into the worship building and beat church members on suspicion of supporting the SAF.

Mina Joseph, 18-year-old daughter of a church elder, was among those who sustained serious injuries and were in critical condition, Suliman told Morning Star News. The RSF also destroyed tables and the chairs in the worship building in the 10 a.m. assault.

The RSF, which controls the area, has prevented the church members and other Christians from leaving the area.

“They have attempted to flee the area several times, but they were prevented by RSF,” Suliman said.

The RSF has often accused civilians of supporting SAR as they attack, r**e, kidnap and loot. The civil society group Al Jazirah Conference estimates RSF militants have driven all residents from 400 villages and partially emptied another 115 hamlets in the eastern part of the state alone, according to the Sudan Tribune.

The RSF reportedly began retaliating against local civilians on Oct. 20 after RSF leader Abu Aqla Kikil, a native of the area, defected to the army. The commander’s defection reportedly led to RSF violence that has displaced more than 500,000 people and killed hundreds of others.

The RSF is also accused of demographic engineering by bringing in new residents.

The conflict between the RSF and the SAF, which had shared military rule in Sudan following an October 2021 coup, has terrorized civilians in Khartoum and elsewhere, killing tens of thousands and displacing more than 12.2 million people within and beyond Sudan’ borders, according to the U.N. Commissioner for Human Rights (UNCHR).

The SAF’s Gen. Abdelfattah al-Burhan and his then-vice president, RSF leader Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, were in power when civilian parties in March 2023 agreed on a framework to re-establish a democratic transition the next month, but disagreements over military structure torpedoed final approval.

Burhan sought to place the RSF – a paramilitary outfit with roots in the Janjaweed militias that had helped former strongman Omar al-Bashir put down rebels – under the regular army’s control within two years, while Dagolo would accept integration within nothing fewer than 10 years.

Both military leaders have Islamist backgrounds while trying to portray themselves to the international community as pro-democracy advocates of religious freedom.

In Open Doors’ 2024 World Watch List of the countries where it is most difficult to be a Christian, Sudan was ranked No. 8, up from No. 10 the previous year, as attacks by non-state actors continued and religious freedom reforms at the national level were not enacted locally.

Sudan had dropped out of the top 10 for the first time in six years when it first ranked No. 13 in the 2021 World Watch List.

Following two years of advances in religious freedom in Sudan after the end of the Islamist dictatorship under Bashir in 2019, the specter of state-sponsored persecution returned with the military coup of Oct. 25, 2021.
After Bashir was ousted from 30 years of power in April 2019, the transitional civilian-military government had managed to undo some sharia (Islamic law) provisions. It outlawed the labeling of any religious group “infidels” and thus effectively rescinded apostasy laws that made leaving Islam punishable by death.

With the Oct. 25, 2021 coup, Christians in Sudan feared the return of the most repressive and harsh aspects of Islamic law. Abdalla Hamdok, who had led a transitional government as prime minister starting in September 2019, was detained under house arrest for nearly a month before he was released and reinstated in a tenuous power-sharing agreement in November 2021.

Hamdock had been faced with rooting out longstanding corruption and an Islamist “deep state” from Bashir’s regime – the same deep state that is suspected of rooting out the transitional government in the Oct. 25, 2021 coup.

The U.S. State Department in 2019 removed Sudan from the list of Countries of Particular Concern (CPC) that engage in or tolerate “systematic, ongoing and egregious violations of religious freedom” and upgraded it to a watch list. Sudan had previously been designated as a CPC from 1999 to 2018.

In December 2020, the State Department removed Sudan from its Special Watch List.

The Christian population of Sudan is estimated at 2 million, or 4.5 percent of the total population of more than 43 million.

Photo: Location of Al Jazirah state, Sudan. (TUBS, Creative Commons)

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Baby, 13-Year-Old Child among 15 Slain in Central NigeriaFulani herdsmen launch assault on village in Plateau state.By C...
30/12/2024

Baby, 13-Year-Old Child among 15 Slain in Central Nigeria
Fulani herdsmen launch assault on village in Plateau state.

By Christian Daily International-Morning Star News
ABUJA, Nigeria, December 30, 2024 (Christian Daily International-Morning Star News) – Fulani herdsmen on the night of Dec. 22 killed 15 Christians in a village in Plateau state, Nigeria, including a 1-year-old baby and a 13-year-old child, sources said.

Clement Chup, president of the Aten Development Association (ADA), condemned the “gruesome killing of innocent, law abiding Nigerians of Aten land,” in the predominantly Christian community of Dowchai, also known as Gidan Ado, in Danwal village of the Ganawuri Chiefdom of Riyom County.

“We are saddened by this callous and avoidable murder of 15 persons in a settlement just a stone throw from a military check-point along the Vom-Ganawuri highway,” Chup said in a press statement. “This no doubt calls to question the commitment of the security agencies in their mandate of securing lives and property of Nigerians.”

The assault, in which dozens of houses were set ablaze, took place during a government curfew of 6 p.m. to 6 a.m., he noted.

“We are therefore baffled as to how the criminals found their way to perpetuate their evil plans without the security personnel dictating them,” Chup said. “This is most disturbing, as these attacks and killings have been reoccurring within the community.”

The ADA called on the government to form an investigation panel to explain the “mysteries” behind the killings and, more importantly, to ensure that the culprits are “made to face the wrath of the law,” he said.

“This in our opinion will go a long way in ameliorating the pains of our people and serve as a deterrent to the criminal herdsmen,” Chup said.

Musa Ashoms, a civil commissioner in Plateau state, confirmed the “barbaric” killing of 15 people of the Gidan Ado community.

“As a government, we will continue to call on such people that are engaged in such barbaric acts to desist,” Ashoms said in a press statement. “Our people are known for their peaceful disposition. We have never provoked anyone, and we will never provoke anyone, and we will continue to live in peace. But we want these assailants to desist from the barbaric act. It does not pay to take people’s lives.”

The community carried out a mass burial on Dec. 23 for the slain, he said.

“We appeal that security agencies should be seen doing their best to check these killings; they should redouble their efforts and arrest the perpetrators of these acts,” Ashoms said.

Sam Jugo, national publicity secretary of the Irigwe Development Association (IDA), identified 14 of those killed in the attack as Azumi Moses, 13; Sheba Ernest, 1; Dauda Arabo, 48; Hassana Wula, 52; Basuna Moses, 22; Faith Basuna, 19; Laraba Randi, 18; Danlami Gado, 50; Moses Yakubu, 48; Talatu Hassan, 42; Chama Ernest, 20; Agumo Monday, 20; Mary Stephen, 33; and Isere Moses, 35.

“One Linda Moses sustained serious injuries and is presently receiving medical attention at a hospital,” Jugo said. “Our hearts bleed for the demise of our kinsmen with whom we hoped to spend this Yuletide together, but their lives were cut short. May their souls rest in peace with our maker and God’s comfort to their immediate families and the Rigwe nation.”

Riyom Council officials in the area confirmed the killing of the 15 villagers and said two others were wounded.

“We condemn these barbaric attacks on a peaceful community,” Riyom Local Government Council Chairman Sati Shuwa said.

Numbering in the millions across Nigeria and the Sahel, predominantly Muslim Fulani comprise hundreds of clans of many different lineages who do not hold extremist views, but some Fulani do adhere to radical Islamist ideology, the United Kingdom’s All-Party Parliamentary Group for International Freedom or Belief (APPG) noted in a 2020 report.

“They adopt a comparable strategy to Boko Haram and ISWAP and demonstrate a clear intent to target Christians and potent symbols of Christian identity,” the APPG report states.

Christian leaders in Nigeria have said they believe herdsmen attacks on Christian communities in Nigeria’s Middle Belt are inspired by their desire to forcefully take over Christians’ lands and impose Islam as desertification has made it difficult for them to sustain their herds.

Nigeria remained the deadliest place in the world to follow Christ, with 4,118 people killed for their faith from Oct. 1, 2022 to Sept. 30, 2023, according to Open Doors’ 2024 World Watch List (WWL) report. More kidnappings of Christians than in any other country also took place in Nigeria, with 3,300.

Nigeria was also the third highest country in number of attacks on churches and other Christian buildings such as hospitals, schools, and cemeteries, with 750, according to the report.

In the 2024 WWL of the countries where it is most difficult to be a Christian, Nigeria was ranked No. 6, as it was in the previous year.

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Photo: Central Mosque, Jos, Nigeria. (El-siddeeq lame, Creative Commons)
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