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The Angolan government has given 1 106 “illegal” churches a 30-day ultimatum — which ends on November 4 — to regularise their operations or be shut. The move is the latest government response to improper commercial activities and human rights abuses it says are being carried out by certain churches […]
Originally published in Christian Today The Trump administration is hopeful that American pastor Andrew Brunson who is on trial in Turkey could be freed at a Friday court hearing, but the State Department said it was unaware of any deal with the Turkish government for his release. NBC News and […]
Originally published in Christian Today A church minister has reported the Scottish Government’s hate crime posters to the campaign’s own website over concerns that they are doing more to encourage hate than prevent it. David Robertson, minister of St Peter’s Free Church in Dundee, said the posters produced jointly by the […]
Originally published in Persecution International International Christian Concern (ICC) has learned that on September 22 Iran’s judiciary affirmed the jail sentences of two Christians. The verdict wrote that believing in the Bible’s authority and Jesus as Lord are attacks against Islam. Saheb Fadaie was sentenced to 18 months and Fatemeh […]
Originally published in World Watch Monitor The mother of the Christian girl detained by Boko Haram for over seven months has called on Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari to secure her daughter’s release. Leah Sharibu, 15, was one of 110 girls kidnapped on 19 February 2018 from a school in Nigeria’s […]
Originally published in International Christian Concern Egypt’s Christians have received a nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize, in what is believed to be the first time an ethno-religious group has received the nomination. They were nominated because of their refusal to retaliate against the violent persecution which targets them because […]
Originally published in Urban Christian News Boko Haram extremists in Nigeria have executed a female aid worker on video and warned that others, including a Christian teen girl, are next. The video, according to Christian Solidarity Worldwide, was released by the Barnawi faction of Boko Haram. In it, the terrorists […]
Originally published in The Gospel Herald – Breaking Christian News The growing crackdown on unofficial churches in China deepened on Sunday when authorities closed one of the largest churches in Beijing, according to reports. The Beijing Chaoyang District Civil Affairs Bureau informed Zion Church that it was “legally banned” for […]
By Elizabeth Kendal — Originally published in Religious Liberty Prayer Bulletin On August 28 the Christian stronghold of Nunman LGA in Adamawa State was rocked by a Fulani-led political assassination (beheading). Meanwhile, massacres continue in Plateau State and a growing number of Nigerian civic, political and religious leaders are convinced […]
For more than 25 years Rev Koppah Seboh Shiktuun has been sharing the gospel of Jesus Christ with Fulani herdsmen in Nigeria but an escalation in Fulani — and other — violence in the nation has put a hold on his evangelism outreaches and he is concerned that if the […]