South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
Originally published in Worthy News Five Christian converts from Islam in Iran have been sentenced to prison terms ranging from nine months to 15 years for reasons that have not been made public, the Jerusalem Post reports. The Jerusalem Post reports that news of the Christians’ sentences was first broken […]
Originally published in The Christian Post A Christian has been jailed under blasphemy charges since April 27 in Lahore, Pakistan, for inadvertently stepping out of his rickshaw onto some papers said to be pages of the Quran, sources said. Dennis Albert, a 35-year-old rickshaw driver, was booked under one section […]
Originally published in Morning Star News A Muslim in Somalia was seriously wounded for putting his faith in Christ this month and lost his wife and five children, sources said. Mohammad Abdul, 40, survived a knife attack by his Muslim relatives on the outskirts of Kismayo, a port city in […]
Originally published in The Christian Post Finnish Christian parliamentarian Päivi Räsänen submitted her defence to Finland’s Supreme Court after being taken to trial a third time for tweeting a Bible verse half a decade ago in opposition to homosexuality. Räsänen’s defence argues she was within her international rights to express […]
Originally published by Global Christian Relief When the inferno of war in Sudan arrived on the doorstep of Fatima’s family, they knew they had a difficult decision to make. One of their sons had already gone missing in the war, so Fatima, her husband and their remaining children began the dangerous […]
Originally published in Worthy News A lawyer in Pakistan is demanding that reluctant police authorities arrest an Islamist employer who caused a young Christian female employee to lose an ear and most of her scalp when he pushed her into an electric chaff cutter last month, Morning Star News (MSN) […]
Originally published in Christian Today A service has been held in Chibok, Nigeria, on the 10th anniversary of the kidnapping of 276 schoolgirls. The service was attended by hundreds of parents, many of whom are still waiting for the release of their daughters. While some have been released and others […]
Originally published in The Christian Post A Muslim man in eastern Uganda is suspected of killing his mother last week by putting pesticide in her food for refusing to leave her Christian faith, a relative said. Sulaina Nabirye, 50, of Kamuli, Kamuli District, put her faith in Christ on February […]
Originally published in Christian Today Reports have emerged of a massacre over the Easter weekend in which 10 Christians were killed in Nigeria. The attack occurred on Easter Monday across three communities in the parish of St Thomas the Apostle in Bokkos, Plateau State. It has been attributed to Fulani […]
Originally published in Worthy Christian News In yet another “brazen” murderous assault on Christian communities in Nigeria, Fulani jihadist herdsmen slaughtered seven people in attacks on villages in central Nigeria’s Benue state last month, Morning Star News (MSN) reports. Well over 60 000 Christians have been murdered by Islamic terrorists […]