“When it is evening, you say,‘It will be fair weather, for the sky is red.’And in the morning,‘There will be a storm today,for the sky is red and threatening.’ Do you know how to discern the appearance of the sky,but cannot discern the signs of the times? Matthew 16:2-3 NIV I find this verse eerily prophetic.
Six Christian families worshipping in a wood-an-hay structure in eastern India were confronted by tribal animists and attacked. A mob of 20-25 men destroyed their church and neighboring properties. Sources say tribal leaders are being tapped by Hindu Nationalists to incite animosity toward Christians. Read more: Morning Star News
Upon seeing visions of Christ during prayers and in her dreams, Muslim Mansitula Buliro confided in her Christian neighbor who led her to accept Christ as her Savior. When her husband found out, he attacked her with a knife, sending her to the hospital where she would later miscarry. Read more: Morning Star News
On January 5, a Christian brick kiln worker named Ansar Masih was brutally beaten by his Muslim employer after he took leave to attend a prayer service over the holidays. Read more: International Christian Concern
Police recovered the bodies of two Christian sisters who went missing November 26 in Lahore, Pakistan. The killers, their Muslim supervisors at a pharmacy factory, had been pressuring them to convert to Islam and marry them. Read more: Morning Star News
A Korean Christian and three Indian nationals are in jail in Uttar Pradesh, accused of fraudulent conversion attempts while distributing food and other aid to people in need due to COVID-19 lockdown. Read more: Morning Star News
The Bharatiya Janata Party-led government of Madhya Pradesh has approved an ordinance entitled The Madhya Pradesh Freedom of Religion Ordinance 2020 that will replace its Religious Freedom Act of 1968 and is considered to be the most stringent anti-conversion law in India. Read more: International Christian Concern
Mosque leaders in eastern Uganda incited a group of Muslims to beat a pastor and his wife and demolish parts of their church building following the conversion of a Muslim imam to Christianity. Read more: Morning Star News
A Christian man was murdered earlier this month by a Muslim coworker in a factory. The victim’s family reports the murderer falsely accused the Christian of committing blasphemy to justify the killing. Read more: International Christian Concern
According to local sources in Pakistan, several Christians in Lahore were injured in an attack instigated by Muslim men harassing Christian girls on a church playground on Christmas day. Read more: International Christian Concern
