South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
Originally published in BR Now The mass slaughter of Christians in Nigeria is calculated genocide abetted by the government in the nation that is Africa’s most Christian, cries a growing number of leaders calling on the United States to intervene. Evangelical John Stonestreet, president of the Colson Centre for Christian […]
Originally published in CBN News President Donald Trump is following through on threats to sanction Turkey for the arrest and detention of American Pastor Andrew Brunson. “At the president’s direction, the Department of Treasury is sanctioning Turkey’s minister of justice and minister of interior, both of whom played leading roles […]
Compiled from reports by Fox News, Al-Monitor, and World Watch Monitor President Donald Trump has warned that the US will hit Turkey with “large sanctions” over an American pastor detained on terror and espionage charges, and he called for the pastor’s immediate release. Tweeting from aboard Air Force One, Trump […]
Originally published in Christian Today An American pastor who has been detained in Turkey for nearly two years on terrorism charges, straining ties between Ankara and Washington, has been transferred from jail to house arrest, broadcaster CNN Turk said on Wednesday July 18 2018. The report came one week after […]
Originally published in Religion News Service Eritrean Christians and human rights advocates are cheering the release of 35 Christian prisoners as a new peace pact between Eritrea and Ethiopia takes hold this month. But hundreds remain imprisoned in Eritrea under harsh conditions stemming from a war in which members of […]
Originally published in World Watch Monitor The Archbishop Canterbury, Justin Welby, has challenged the British government on how much it is doing to help end violent attacks on Christians in Nigeria. His comments, made in a House of Lords debate on Fulani herdsmen and Boko Haram on Tuesday (17 July), […]
Originally published in World Watch Monitor Hopes were dashed for the imminent release of an American pastor jailed in Turkey on terrorism charges as a Turkish court today ordered him to remain behind bars. The court scheduled Andrew Brunson’s next hearing for October 12. Some observers had believed that Turkey […]
Originally published in Christian Headlines International Christian Concern (ICC) has learned that last Monday, July 2, 20 Christians were seriously injured in an assault on a prayer meeting in Raikashipur village, located in the Pratapgarh District of India’s Uttar Pradesh State. According to local reports, a mob of 35 Hindu […]
By Emmanuel Ogebe/Assist News — via Charisma News In a 60-hour killing spree that began last weekend, about 200 Christians were slaughtered in Plateau State even as the US ambassador at large for international religious freedom was departing Nigeria. Ambassador Sam Brownback’s one-week visit was pockmarked with six suicide bombings by […]
Originally published in The Christian Post Leading evangelist Franklin Graham believes that President Donald Trump’s meeting with North Korea Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un on Tuesday will benefit the highly persecuted Christian community in the isolated nation. In an interview with the Christian Broadcasting Network on Tuesday, the head of […]