South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
Originally published in American Faith A US Christian missionary has been abducted in Niamey, Niger, under circumstances suggesting involvement of Islamist militant groups, according to multiple security sources. The victim is reportedly a pilot working for the evangelical agency Serving in Mission (SIM) and was seized late Tuesday night in Niamey’s Plateau […]
Twenty Christians were killed, about 2 000 were displaced,1 300 homes were destroyed and two churches were burned down by al-Shabab jihadists during a series of attacks in Nampala Village in northern Mozambique from October 9 to 12, says Open Doors Africa (ODA) in a media release. Local pastors and […]
Originally published in Christian Today More than 60 people have been killed in airstrikes on a Sudanese camp for internally displaced persons (IDPs) in the besieged city of El Fasher. Sudan is currently in a state of civil war between the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and the Sudanese Armed Forces […]
Originally published in The Christian Post The Church of Nigeria has publicly rejected the election of a woman as the new archbishop of Canterbury, saying it marks a deeper shift by the Church of England away from biblical teaching. The appointment of Bishop Sarah Mullally, the first woman to hold […]
Originally published in CBN More than 30 Christians have been beheaded at the hands of Islamic State terrorists in Mozambique, according to a report. The Islamic State Mozambique Province, or ISMP, announced that they destroyed at least seven churches, committed acts of arson against Christians and village civilians, and shot […]
A Muslim high school student in Uganda stabbed his brother to death, one day after he converted to Christianity. Akram Kairoki, a third-year student at Mbale High School in Mbale city, twice knifed his brother, Shafiki Wasike, on Sept. 1 shortly before they arrived at the school, sources said. Wasike […]
Originally published in Christian Daily International Dominic Villeneuve grips the controls as his small aircraft approaches a remote airstrip in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Below, armed militias control the roads. Villages have been cut off from medical care, food supplies, and hope. But Villeneuve flies in anyway. The Canadian […]
Originally published in Harbinger’s Daily US Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) has introduced the Nigeria Religious Freedom Accountability Act of 2025, a bill designed to protect Christians and other religious minorities from widespread persecution in Nigeria. The legislation seeks to hold accountable Nigerian government officials who enable Islamist jihadist violence or enforce […]
Six months into his CrossWalk Africa mission to wheel a wooden cross from Cape Town to Jerusalem, Reini Coetzee’s epic trek is getting very real: he will soon be entering uncharted territory in Zimbabwe. “It’s like a big doorway that I’m going to go through — into the unknown, into […]
Originally published in Barnabas Aid on September 14 Islamic State Mozambique (IS-M) have claimed the killing of 17 Christians in Cabo Delgado Province in the past three weeks. In just one attack in Muidumbe district on 26 August, the terrorists murdered four people and burned down 29 houses. These attacks are part […]