South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
Originally published in The Catholic World Report The International Society for Civil Liberties and the Rule of Law, Intersociety, states that July and August were perhaps the deadliest months of 2026, with 437 Christians killed and 393 abducted. A sobering new report claims that no fewer than 3,083 Christians were […]
Originally published in Worthy Christian News Iranian authorities have killed or imprisoned dozens of Christians amid a widening crackdown on the country’s underground church, according to Iran Alive Ministries, a Texas-based Christian ministry with a network inside Iran. Iran Alive founder Hormoz Shariat told Baptist Press that at least 33 […]
Originally published in The Christian Post The doors of some small churches in Zanzibar, a semi-autonomous archipelago of Tanzania, have been broken, Bibles scattered and congregations left shaken. Yet Christians in several Muslim-majority communities continue to gather for worship despite fears of further attacks and growing social pressure. A report […]
In this opinion piece, originally published in The Christian Post, Brad Brandon founder and CEO of Across Nigeria asks why increased awareness of the dire situation of Christians in Nigeria has not led to increased accountability. Brandon writes from the perspective of a missionary who spends much time in high-persecution areas of […]
Originally published in Christian Today Christians in Afghanistan are at risk of a “genocide” according to Martin Parsons, an expert in religious freedom and Islamic extremism and former aid worker to the country. Writing for The Critic, Parsons spoke of his experiences in the 1990s following the first takeover of power […]
Originally published in Premier Christian News Two couples who run a youth-based ministry in northern Lower Michigan are suing their local township and its leaders, alleging that they unconstitutionally banned their group from meeting. In a 169-page complaint filed Monday in US District Court in Grand Rapids, the plaintiffs said […]
Originally published in Premier Christian News A Christian man in China has been arrested for listening to the Bible in his car. The man, referred to as Brother AK, lives in a Muslim-majority region of north-west China and was listening to the Bible via a USB device connected to the […]
Originally published in Morning Star News Two church leaders abducted in Sudan’s Nuba Mountains have been released, local sources said. The Rev Yaqob Ibrahim Tia and Zakaria Suliman Jana, both prominent leaders of a Sudanese Church of Christ (SCOC) congregation in Heiban, South Kordofan state, were freed on July 28 […]
Originally published in Anglican Ink Before you read this article, I want you to understand something: the person who wrote these words could pay a high price simply for choosing to speak. If my identity is revealed, I could face danger or even death — not because I have committed […]
Originally published in My Christian Daily Following Algeria’s closure of nearly all evangelical churches in waves of repression that began in 2017, Christians have been forced underground in what they describe as an internal exile, sources said. Christians in the 99% Muslim country gather discreetly in homes, garages or under […]