By George Conger — Eternity News President Donald Trump asked the President of Nigeria to explain his nation’s indifference to the plight of persecuted Christians, Nigerian leader Muhammadu Buhari told reporters last week. Speaking in Abuja on September 8 at the First Year Ministerial Performance Review Retreat of his second […]
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Christian sentenced to death in Pakistan for ‘blasphemy’ after he refused to convert to Islam
By Steve Warren — Originally published in CBN News A Christian man has been sentenced to death in Pakistan for allegedly sending “blasphemous” text messages to his Muslim supervisor. Morning Star News (MSN) reports Asif Pervaiz, 37, has been incarcerated for the past seven years since he was charged with […]
500 Ethiopian Christians killed by Muslim extremists in targeted attacks since June
By Steve Warren — Originally published in CBN News An Ethiopian Christian leader says it’s time to launch an international inquiry after hundreds of Christians were murdered – including pregnant women, children, and whole families – by Muslim extremists in parts of the Oromia regional state since the end of […]
Nigerian diaspora protest Kaduna killings outside London High Commission
Originally published by CSW Members of the Nigerian diaspora demonstrated outside the Nigerian High Commission in London today and will hand in a letter protesting the relentless attacks on communities in southern Kaduna by armed men of Fulani ethnicity. Protestors gathered under the umbrella of the Southern Kaduna Peoples Diaspora […]
China fines Christian man nearly R50 000 for holding online Bible study
By Michael Foust — Originally published in Christian Headlines A Chinese government agency last week fined a Christian man R49 400 ($2,870) for holding an online Bible study it says violated a new anti-religion law. The man, Zhang Wenli, lives in Yunnan province and was contacted August 11 by the […]
Christians dying as corruption prolongs terrorist scourge in Nigeria — Elizabeth Kendal
Religious Liberty Prayer Bulletin — by Elizabeth Kendal Despite being resource-rich and having the largest economy in Africa, Nigeria has more people living in poverty than any other country on earth. To Nigeria’s shame, more than 102 million Nigerians live in poverty, which is more than twice the number in India […]
Muslim in Nigeria comes to Jesus through Christian’s radical kindness
By Lyndsey Koh — Originally published in Mission Network News Idris*, a staunch Muslim in a 90%-Muslim area of Nigeria, was so opposed to the borehole and other services local Christian missionaries provided that he ordered his wife not to drink of the new well water. According to Christian Aid […]
‘Black Sunday’ prayer campaign launched as slaughter of Christians in southern Kaduna escalates
Religious Liberty Prayer Bulletin — by Elizabeth Kendal Despite its location in the north-west region of northern Nigeria and also being one of 12 states ruled (unconstitutionally) by Sharia Law, Kaduna State actually straddles Nigeria’s ethnic-religious fault-line. The north is predominantly Hausa-Fulani Muslim whilst the south is populated by numerous […]
Ugandan pastor, church member beaten and drowned for evangelising Muslims
By Anugrah Kumar — Originally published in The Christian Post Radical Muslims in eastern Uganda beat and drowned a 25-year-old pastor and a 22-year-old church member in retaliation for preaching the Gospel to local Muslims. Pastor Peter Kyakulaga of Church of Christ and parishioner Tuule Mumbya were murdered in a […]
Boko Haram has killed more than Islamic State in Iraq and Syria combined
By Julia Bicknell — Originally published in World Watch Monitor Nigerian Wanhena Sheku was working alone on her farm when a group she identified as Fulani herdsmen attacked her in mid-October, 2019. “They told me to place my left arm on a wooden log before they hacked my hand off. […]