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 […]
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Nigerian Christian university student abducted by Muslim group seeking her forced conversion
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 […]
Abducted Christian teenager Leah Sharibu ‘still alive’, given birth to third child, says charity
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 […]
SA woman tourist, among three killed by suspected Muslim extremists in western Uganda
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 […]
Time2Rise movement starting up in more African countries
The nation building Time2Rise movement that is uniting the Body of Christ in South Africa for change, is spreading to two more African countries. At a Time2Rise South Africa event outside Bloemfontein on October 7. Dr Arno van Niekerk, one of the facilitators of the gathering, said “God is showing […]
US Christian leader takes team on 5-nation ‘mission safari’
Gateway News spoke with Apostle David McDonald who took a team of 19 people from America on a “mission safari” to South Africa, Botswana, Namibia, Zambia and Uganda last month. The South Caronlina-based leader who originally came from South Africa said his goal for such missions “is to connect the […]
Nigerian air force strikes terrorist groups
Originally published in Persecution.org The Nigerian Air Force recently conducted airstrikes against extremist groups in the Lake Chad Basin including Boko Haram/Islamic States of West Africa Province (ISWAP) and Fulani militants. The Nigerian Air Force confirmed terrorist activities against civilians and “obliterated the terrorists’ hideouts and destroyed their structures and […]
Masalit encounter Gospel despite Darfur slaughter
A Western coalition has called on the United Nations to formally investigate atrocities in Sudan. The decision comes one week after a Reuters report revealed the scope of genocide underway in Darfur since fighting began in April. “People are killed in their homes and the streets; women and girls are raped; hundreds of thousands […]
Ugandan teenager locked up, starved for becoming a Christian
Originally published in Morning Star News An evangelistic team in eastern Uganda this month discovered a Muslim had locked up his son and starved him for more than four months for accepting Christ, sources said. Musobya Aramanzani of Nankoma, Bugiri District learned that his 17-year-old son had accepted Christ earlier […]
Islamic State-affiliated terrorists kill 11 Christians in northern Mozambique
Originally published in Worthy News Terrorists affiliated with Islamic State murdered 11 Christians in an attack on Cabo Delgado province, Mozambique last week, Aid the Church in Need (ACN) reports. The killings come amid relentless violence in Cabo Delgado and the neighbouring province of Niassa, which has led to the […]