South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
Originally published in Worthy Christian News The United States acknowledged yesterday that it ordered the evacuation of staff and families from its embassy in Niger following last week’s coup, which added to uncertainty within the Christian minority in the West African nation. The move, confirmed by the US State Department, […]
Originally published in Christian News Hard-line Muslims threw stones at a pastor in eastern Uganda and beat him unconscious as he spoke at a funeral using both the Bible and the Koran, he said from his hospital bed. Pastor Davidson Okirori, 39, said he was officiating a funeral for one […]
Zambian president Hakainde Hichilema, who is currently on a state visit to Israel, met on Tuesday with Israel’s president Isaac Herzog, and is also scheduled to meet with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The Jerusalem Post reports that Hichilema is the third Zambian president to visit Israel over the past decade. In […]
Christians in Central Nigeria are holding prayer vigils after intensified attacks on their communities have left more than 340 dead and 80 000 displaced from one state alone, says Open Doors Southern Africa in a media release. The sustained attacks on Christian farmers in Plateau State have continued unabated since […]
Originally published in Morning Star News A Muslim in eastern Uganda on July 9 killed his wife for converting to Christianity that morning, a relative said. Amina Nanfuka, 31, had returned from a medical check-up in Kampala and a visit to a worship service in the capital city to her […]
Originally published in The Christian Post In testimony provided to a US congressional subcommittee on Tuesday, a Nigerian Catholic bishop decried a “conspiracy of silence” from his government and the international community in response to what he says is genocidal violence targeting Christian communities in the African nation. The House […]
Originally published in Morning Star News About two weeks after a 22-year-old Muslim in eastern Uganda put his faith in Christ, villagers on killed him for leaving Islam, sources said. Abudu Amisi of Kasanvu village, Pallisa District was stabbed multiple times on Saturday July 8 while returning from a market […]
Originally published in Worthy Christian News As part of an ongoing campaign of terror, murder, displacement and destruction of livelihood against Nigerian Christians in Plateau State, Fulani jihadists sent written warnings to specific local Christian communities at the weekend, advising them of impending attacks in specific locations, International Christian Concern […]
Originally published in Morning Star News Fulani terrorists in Plateau state, Nigeria killed more than 150 Christians in the first three weeks of June, including a church pastor, sources said. The killing of the Rev Nichodemus Kim of the Church of Christ in Nations (COCIN) in Gana-Ropp, Barkin Ladi County […]
By Olum Douglas — Originally published in UgandaPartners ‘If I can only help a few…I would be fulfilled’ — Gloria Laker Gloria Laker, a fourth-year Bachelor of Laws student at Uganda Christian University (UCU), met her first nodding syndrome patient when visiting an ailing grandfather. It was a Thursday morning […]