South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
By Open Doors SA A Jesuit Priest, Frans van der Lugt, was killed in Homs on Monday morning. Armed men apparently entered the monastery where he lived and took father Frans. Dutch broadcaster, NOS, reports that he was beaten while inside, but once outside, he was shot with two bullets […]
Prisoner goes on hunger strike Originally published in Christian Today A group of Christians imprisoned after a raid on a prayer meeting in Iran have lost appeals against their sentences. The sentences being served by the six Christians vary in length and were upheld by a court on 29 March […]
Originally published by Barnabas Fund Four people were killed in an Islamist attack on a church in Egypt, while another Egyptian Christian has been murdered in Libya. Supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood shot at the church building in Ain Shams, a suburb of Cairo, and set cars parked by it on […]
Originally published in Worthy News An increasing number of Muslim majority nations are strictly enforcing Islamic blasphemy laws in order to penalize Christians and other religious minorities, according to Barnabas Aid. All blasphemy laws are incompatible with international human rights standards, according to a recent report by the US Commission […]
By World Watch Monitor An Armenian* Syrian pastor, whose family is from Kessab, close to Syria’s northern border with Turkey, has reported that they have fled the village after Syrian rebel jihadists took control of the area. The fighting in the predominantly Armenian Christian town started Friday March 21st. World […]
Originally published in allAfrica The leader of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood and nearly 700 members of the group went on trial Tuesday on charges including murder and inciting violence. The trial of Mohamed Badie, the Muslim Brotherhood’s spiritual guide during his arrest last year, and the others comes a day after […]
That there was a creation event as described in Genesis is indisputably confirmed by this week’s Big Bang scientific breakthrough, an Israeli physicist who is also an Orthodox Jew claims. A secular Israeli professor, unsurprisingly, insists that the Bible and the Big Bang are “not related.” The announcement on Monday […]
American Pastor Saeed Abedini’s case in Iran has taken a turn for the worse as a result of continual beatings in the country’s Rajai Shahr prison. Saeed has been imprisoned in Iran for his faith since September 2012. More than a week ago he was moved from his jail cell […]
By World Watch Monitor Five Turkish murder suspects on trial for torturing and killing three Christians in Malatya nearly seven years ago are expected to be set free on bail within the next few days, before the conclusion of their trial in southeast Turkey. Under a new judicial package passed […]
By Open Doors With eight Christians killed in one week and one murder attempt on another Egyptian Christian this week in Libya, the violence against Christians is growing at an alarming rate. The killings have caused fear among Christians, especially in the eastern city of Benghazi where all the shootings […]