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Originally published in World Watch Monitor The Algerian government has once again been criticised for alleged discrimination against the country’s Christian minority, this time by handing large fines to two brothers for carrying over 50 Bibles in their car. Prosecutors claimed the Bibles were to be used for proselytism, though […]
Originally published in World Watch Monitor Six Christian communities in north-eastern Nigeria have announced their intention to take the national Air Force to the International Criminal Court (ICC) over its alleged bombing of their communities in December. Lawaru, Dong, Nzoruwe, Pulum, Kodomti and Shaforon — in the Demsa and Numan […]
Originally published in Christian Headlines Orphans in Somalia whose parents were killed for their faith by Islamic extremist, Al Shabaab rebels are becoming more numerous – and hungrier, an underground church leader said. The pastor started a care center for the orphans three years ago in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, […]
Originally published in Faithwire Approximately 700 Churches have been shut down by the Rwandan government for failing to comply with noise restrictions. Most of those closed by officials were small Pentecostal congregations located in Kigali, but one mosque was also ordered to stop hosting services. There has been an increase […]
Originally published in The Christian Post At least 12 Christians have been killed and another 20 injured in Kasuwan Magani in northern Nigeria in retaliation for believers’ attempts to rescue Christian girls from forced Islamic conversions. Morning Star News reported on Tuesday that radical Muslims hunted down Christians and burned […]
Originally published in The Christian Post US President Donald Trump and his counterpart, Muhammadu Buhari of Nigeria, have been told that at least 16 000 Christians have been killed in Nigeria since June 2015, many of them victims of radical Islamic violence. The International Society for Civil Liberties and the […]
Originally published in Christian Headlines A woman who was injured and left disfigured from a church bombing in Cairo, Egypt in December 2016 has not given in to discouragement and despair, and instead has said that Jesus sustained her and even appeared to her in visions. The Christian Post reports […]
Six hundred and fifty people gave their lives to the Lord during a Christmas mission led by African Enterprise in Dessie in north-eastern Ehtiopia — one of the most unreached and gospel-resistant areas of the country. A total of 6 720 people were reached with the gospel from December 20 […]
Originally published in Premier Christian Radio A senior cleric from the Democratic Republic of Congo has accused the West of deliberately ignoring the extreme violence in the country. Fr Apollinaire Cikongo, executive secretary of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Kananga, told Catholic charity Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) […]
Botswana has shut down Prophet Shepherd Bushiri’s Enlightened Christian Gathering Church (ECG) in Gaborone, due to concerns over the church’s use of “miracle money” — promises of money appearing as if by magic, reports the Botswana Gazette. Malawian-born Bushiri — who is based in South Africa and has churches across Africa, […]