South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
Originally published in Premier Christian News Christians in Burkina Faso under threat from jihadists are not afraid to die for their faith, according to a local church leader, speaking after the brutal killing of worshippers on Sunday February 25. Bishop Justin Kientega of Ouahigouya Diocese, north-east Burkina Faso, told Catholic […]
By Open Doors SA The COVID-19 pandemic has forced many countries around the world into lockdown in an attempt to try and stop the virus from spreading rapidly. This might be uncomfortable or inconvenient for many people, but for persecuted believers, it’s a matter of life and death. Unfortunately, to […]
Christianity growing rapidly despite Islamist persecution By Maria Baer — Originally published in Christianity Today Burkina Faso used to be one of the most peaceful nations in the world. The small West African country of about 19 million people has seen a handful of coup d’etats over its short life, […]
Originally published in CSW Religious freedom organisation CSW marked Leah Sharibu’s 16th birthday on Tuesday May 14 by holding a prayer vigil outside the Nigerian High Commission in London. Sharibu was one of 110 schoolgirls abducted from their school in Dapchi, Nigeria, by a faction of the terrorist group Boko […]
Originally published by Morning Star News Sheikh Hassan Podo, a 28-year-old imam in Kerekerene village in eastern Uganda, missed mosque prayers for three consecutive weeks and was seen entering a church building around noon on March 16. He had kept his faith in Christ a secret for three weeks. The […]
Originally published in The Christian Post The US State Department is headed to Nigeria this week amid the massacre of hundreds of Christians at the hands of various Islamic radical factions. Killings had spiked in October. The State Department says on it website that the visit will be part of […]
Originally published in World Watch Monitor In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, dozens are feared killed as armed men believed to be Islamist militants from the ADF group stormed the eastern town of Beni, in the volatile province of North Kivu, on Saturday. According to local sources, the assailants, […]
Originally published in World Watch Monitor Two people were killed for failing to recite the Islamic statement of faith when militants, believed to belong to the Islamist militant group Al-Shabaab, attacked their bus in eastern Kenya on Friday, 14 September. Seven men stopped the bus while it was on its […]
Originally published in WND Pastor Victor Bet-Tamraz and his wife Shamiram Issavi, who are ethnic Assyrian Christians, and Amin Afshar Naderi and Hadi Asgari, who are Christian converts from Islam, were sentenced to a combined total of 45 years in prison, reported CBN News. The charges were conducting “illegal church […]
Originally published in Faith Wire Rwandan authorities have continued to carry out a government directive which called for the forced closure of thousands of churches. A new set of strict requirements was laid out at the beginning of the year, which the government claimed included basic requirements in terms of […]