South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
Originally published in World Watch Monitor The kidnap of a pioneering American missionary in Niger is a “terrible tragedy” for the communities he served for 24 years, according to the local mayor. It has also raised security concerns among the country’s missionary community. Jeff Woodke, 55, who worked for Jeunesse […]
Originally published in The Christian Telegraph After six years in prison, Pastor Behnam Irani has been released from Ghezel Hesar Prison, and is now free in Iran, Christian Telegraph reports according to ASSIST News Service. “I basically have very little details. He finished serving his sentence and was released. He […]
Originally published in Christian Today. A young Christian woman from Eritrea has described how she was imprisoned in a shipping container, tortured and beaten and starved – all because she refused to stop saying the name of Jesus. Helen Berhane is from Eritrea, one of the worst countries in the […]
Originally published by The Gospel Herald. As Islamist groups warned of reprisals for a possible acquittal in Pakistan’s highest profile blasphemy case, the country’s Supreme Court today delayed ruling on an appeal against the death sentence given to Christian mother of five Aasiya Noreen. The ruling on the death sentence […]
Originally published in World Watch Monitor. Three Iranian Christian converts are appealing after they were sentenced to 80 lashes each for drinking alcohol during Holy Communion. (Non-Muslims are permitted to drink alcohol in Iran, but leaving Islam is forbidden, so any such conversions are not recognised.) Yasser Mossayebzadeh, Saheb Fadaie […]
Originally published in Christian Today. Islamist militant group al-Shabaab claimed the deaths of six Christians in an attack on a residential compound in Northeast Kenya on Thursday. “We are behind the Mandera attack in which we killed six Christians,” Sheikh Abdiasis Abu Musab, al Shabaab’s military operations spokesman, told Reuters. […]
Originally published in CBN News. Pastor Saeed and Naghmeh Abedini announced on social media that they are divorcing. The Iranian-American pastor spent years in an Iranian prison after being arrested for being a Christian and for sharing his faith with Muslims. It’s an act considered illegal and worthy of death […]
Originally published in The Gospel Herald A Pakistani Muslim man who shot his sister dead for marrying a Christian said that he did it for the sake of his family’s reputation. Mubeen Rajhu, in an interview with the Associated Press, recounted the events that led him to kill his younger […]
Originally published in Christianity Today. This week is the last chance Chinese Christians have to tell their government what they think of its latest religion law. They have an awful lot to comment on. China released a draft of new religious restrictions in September, including the prohibition of online religious […]
Originally published in Charisma News North Korea has crushed Christians under a steam roller, hung them on crosses above raging fires, herded them off bridges and other devastating forms of torture, according to a report. Christian Solidarity Worldwide issued the report earlier this month to call action against the Communist […]