South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
Originally published in Christian Daily International At least 19 Christians were arrested in Sudan’s city of Madani on various occasions in January and February, area sources said. Seven Christians were arrested by security personnel associated with the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) on January 21 as the group traveled from Barakat […]
Originally published in My Christian Daily The Supreme Court of Nigeria on Friday March 7 upheld the death sentence for a Christian who defended himself against an attack by Fulani herdsmen. Calling the ruling a “horrendous miscarriage of justice”, attorney and international human rights advocate Emmanuel Ogebe said in a […]
Originally published in Christian Daily International Iran’s Revolutionary Court sentenced a pregnant Christian woman to 16 years in prison on Saturday (March 8) and also handed harsh punishments to two other converts from Islam, a rights group reported. Revolutionary Court Judge Iman Afshari sentenced Narges Nasri, a 37-year-old Christian pregnant […]
By Joel C Rosenberg — Originally published in allarabnews More than 1 000 civilian minorities — many of them Christians, as well as Kurds and Alawites — have been murdered in Syria over the past week in the worst spasm of bloodshed since the days of the Islamic caliphate and […]
Originally published in Persecution.Org In statements on social media and state-owned media platforms, China is celebrating an increase in government persecution of religious minorities in 2024. The Chinese government views religious freedom as a threat to the exclusive loyalty it believes is owed to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), which rules […]
SA voices also speak out on Christian persecution Originally published in Worthy News Hungary says it is rushing aid to families of 70 Christians who were beheaded by Islamist fighters in a Protestant church in the north-eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and urges the world “not […]
Originally published in My Christian Daily Hardline Muslims in eastern Uganda on February 15 beat and stabbed an evangelist after he and his team led a Muslim widow to Christ during open-air gospel preaching. Robert Kasozi, a 39-year-old evangelist also known as Mulokole, was stabbed in the stomach, and three […]
Originally published in The Christian Post Suspected militants of Islamic extremist group Boko Haram killed a pastor at his home in Gombe state, Nigeria on Sunday, as violence continued to terrorise the country’s northeast, sources said. The Rev Bala Galadima of the Evangelical Church Winning All was shot to death […]
Originally published in My Christian Daily A Christian convert from Islam in Somalia has lost his speech after his Muslim wife hit him with a heavy metallic object for practicing his faith, sources said. In a town in Somalia’s Lower Juba Region, undisclosed for security reasons, 35-year-old Abdulai Ramadan suffered […]
Originally published in My Christian Daily A Christian couple in India has been sentenced to five years in prison for ‘attempting to convert’, breaking an anti-conversion law in the process. A special court in Ambedkar Nagar, Uttar Pradesh, India has convicted a Christian couple of attempting to convert under the […]