South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
Originally published in Christian Headlines Police in Darfur Region, Sudan have arrested four Christians under a law against apostasy that was annulled two years ago, according to local reports. Police on June 28 arrested the Christians from the Sudanese Baptist Church in Zalingei, in western Sudan’s Central Darfur state, on […]
Originally published by Barnabas Fund Christians who remain in Afghanistan are at risk of being hunted down and killed by the Taliban now that the Islamist group has regained control of the country and, on September 7, announced the formation of a new government. The Christians of Afghanistan are first-generation converts […]
A brief overview of the US State Department’s 2015 International Religious Freedom Report Originally published in World Watch Monitor The following are a selection of news stories covered over the past three months that highlight the extent of the suppression of religious freedom: Algerian Christian gets maximum sentence for ‘blasphemy’ Chinese […]
Originally published in World Watch Monitor To convert away from Islam is “treason” that should carry the death penalty, according to Sunni Islam’s topmost religious authority. “The penalty for an open apostate, departing from the community, is well stipulated in Sharia,” Al-Azhar’s Grand Imam Ahmed el-Tayyib declared on Egypt television […]
Originally published in Assist News A human rights group says it has learned that the lawyers who represented Meriam Ibrahim, whose conviction for apostasy and adultery was overturned by the Appeal Court on June 23, are currently defending the case at the Supreme Court. They plan to take it to […]
Originally published in Ecumenical News Egyptian authorities arrested Christian convert from Islam, Bishoy Armia Boulous immediately after he was released on bail. Local security officials on July 21 turned Boulous over to the Ministry of Interior to face blasphemy charges filed in 2009, Morning Star News reported. Boulous, who is […]
Originally published in Charisma News Pope Francis met Meriam Ibrahim, the Christian woman spared a death sentence for “apostasy” in Sudan, at the Vatican on Thursday (July 24, 2014) after she was flown to Rome by the Italian government following a vigorous international campaign to free her. Ibrahim, 27, was […]
Originally published in The Christian Post The lawsuit brought by Christian mother Meriam Ibrahim’s Islamic relatives in Sudan has been dropped, a lawyer working on the case said, which could open the way for Ibrahim and her family to soon travel to the United States. “We are no longer proceeding […]
Originally published in Charisma News Meriam Ibrahim, the Christian Sudanese mother who was forced to give birth with her legs chained in prison, says that her baby daughter is disabled as a result. “Something has happened to the baby,” she said, according to The Telegraph. Ibrahim said she doesn’t know […]
Meriam Ibrahim could spend 5 more years in prison Originally published in The Christian Post Christian mother turned global persecution icon Meriam Ibrahim could possibly spend another five years in prison after escaping death row on Monday, if Sudanese officials convict her of forging the South Sudanese travel documents she […]