South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
God has given a theme for OM mission ship Logos Hope’s current African voyage, OM South Africa coordinator Francois Pienaar told church and ministry leaders in Gqeberha today. The theme is “Our Story, God’s Story”, he said, at a briefing on the ship’s South Africa visit early next year. Logos […]
Two Christians in eastern Uganda were hospitalised after hardline Muslims beat them for their presentation at a religious dialogue, one of the victims said. Musa Kirongosa, 32, [see photo] and Swidiki Buyinza, 27, of an undisclosed church in Nawaikoke, Kaliro District, were the first to speak at the Christian-Muslim dialogue organised […]
Originally published by Release International Earlier this year, a report by UK parliamentarians heard that almost 90% of all the Christians kidnapped worldwide are abducted in Nigeria. According to the charity Aid to the Church in Need 5 200 Christians were kidnapped in Nigeria between January 2021 and June 2022. […]
Originally published in Christian Headlines For 10 years, a Christian family in Nigeria has faced persecution — sometimes becoming brutally violent—for rejecting the practice of idol worship. In Southeast Nigeria’s Imo State, members of the Okoro* family have been kidnapped, tortured, and threatened with death for turning their backs on […]
Originally published in The Christian Post A woman in eastern Uganda has been hospitalised with serious burns after her Muslim husband discovered she had converted to Christianity and set her on fire, area sources said. Hajara Namwase, a 32-year-old mother of three children in Kenkebu village, Budaka town, is still […]
Originally published in Church Times A church used by two different Christian congregations has been destroyed in the shelling of Sudan’s second largest city, during the continuing conflict between the Sudanese military and a paramilitary faction. The Church of Our Saviour, in Omdurman, which dates back to the 1900s, and was […]
Originally published in Premier Christian News Experts from the United Nations (UN) have sent a letter to the Nigerian government raising concerns over the country’s strict blasphemy laws. The letter is a result of appeals by religious freedom advocates, including ADF International, who say the laws are a violation of human […]
Originally published in Worthy Christian News A campus watchdog group has warned that staff at Nigeria’s Kaduna State University assisted in the kidnapping and forced conversion to Islam of a female Christian student, Morning Star News (MSN) reports. Twenty-year-old Dorcas Adedayo Adekanola, was a first-year chemistry student at the university […]
Originally published in Premier Christian News The Catholic charity Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) says that Leah Sharibu, who has been held captive in Nigeria for the last five years, is still alive and has given birth to her third child. Sharibu was one of 110 schoolgirls seized […]
Originally published in The Christian Post The killers of a tour guide and two tourists in western Uganda accused them of supporting Christian work, days after an evangelist in Kampala was beaten unconscious after Muslim extremists attacked him for being an “infidel,” sources said. Those killed were Ugandan Christian tour […]