South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
Originally published in My Christian Daily Lawyers for Yahaya Sharif-Aminu, a young Sufi musician who has spent more than six and a half years in prison facing a death sentence for alleged blasphemy, have renewed their call on the Supreme Court of Nigeria to restore his case to its cause list […]
Originally published in The Christian Post Christians in Nigeria were killed at a rate of one every 86 minutes between January 1 and September 8, most of them in the Middle Belt that receives low priority in Nigerian and U.S. security policy, a new report by a U.S.-based aid agency […]
Originally published in Frontpage Yet another jihadist attack in north Cameroon has led to the kidnapping of two Christians. Boko Haram terrorists reportedly abducted the Christians on August 10 when they targeted the village of Mahoula in Mayo-Sava Division, an area notorious for the terror group’s attacks and its splinter operations because […]
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 […]