South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
By Open Doors The gender-specific religious persecution (GSRP) faced by Christian women and girls is consistently more complex and multifaceted than the persecution faced by men and boys. Violent forms of insecurity tend to see women and girls more vulnerable to sexual violence, whereas men and boys face a heightened […]
Originally published by Faithwire An organisation combatting Christian persecution across the globe recently announced it helped free 1 500 Sudanese slaves last year, bringing the total liberated over the past three decades to over 100 000. Joel Veldkamp, head of international communications at Christian Solidarity International (CSI), told CBN News […]
Originally published in Morning Star News A judge sentenced a Christian to life in prison under Pakistan’s blasphemy statutes for a social media message that relatives say was posted using a phone stolen from him, sources said. Fanson Shahid, 56, had been beaten in his home in Lahore when arrested in March […]
Originally published in Worthy News Christianity is legal in Uganda, but believers who left Islam for Christ are increasingly vulnerable to extreme violence by radicalised Muslim relatives and neighbours. In the latest such incident, a formerly Muslim couple in eastern Uganda were hacked to death on February 2, Morning Star […]
Originally published in Worthy News A Christian mother of seven living at an internally-displaced-persons camp in Sudan was badly beaten by her Muslim husband after he heard about her new faith in Jesus, Morning Star News reports. Already devastated and war-torn, Islamic-majority Sudan again descended into civil war in April […]
Originally published by Juicy Ecumenism Advocacy group International Christian Concern (ICC) has made available to the public its report on the worst persecutors of the church in the year 2023. The report assumes a similar approach to the US State Department in its list of Countries of Particular Concern (CPC) and Special Watch […]
Originally published in Premier Christian News A 48-year-old Vietnamese Montagnard Christian, Nay Y Blang, has been sentenced to four-and-a-half years in prison for conducting prayer meetings in his home. A member of the Central Highlands Evangelical Church of Christ, Blang was convicted on January 26 without access to legal representation. […]
Originally published in The Christian Post Pastor Keshab Raj Acharya faces a one-year prison sentence for his religious activities, marking a significant setback for religious freedom in Nepal, after the country’s Supreme Court upheld a previous judgment against the pastor, who now awaits the court’s response to his appeal for […]
Rick Plasterer, a staff writer for The Institute on Religion and Democracy on religious liberty issues says that the crisis in Nigeria does not get the attention it deserves in the West because of the Nigerian government’s denial of the religious character of the killings — and the Western establishment’s […]
Originally published in The Christian Post A court in China sentenced a prominent Protestant pastor to 14 years in prison. The pastor’s wife and four church members have also been sentenced to prison terms ranging from three to 10 years. They were all found guilty of purportedly “using superstition to […]