Originally published in CBN News Christians in central Nigeria are appealing for prayer after a new round of violence left as many as 80 people dead and more than 4 000 others displaced during the Easter season. At least 19 people were killed this week when gunmen attacked the mostly […]
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Libya to release 4 jailed missionaries, including SA woman
Originally Published in Christianity Today Libya has announced that it will free from jail four foreign missionaries who were arrested last month on allegations of evangelism, according to Bloomberg News. Citing “homeland security” concerns, police arrested the missionaries on charges of printing and distributing Christian pamphlets in Benghazi. It originally […]
Rebels take over Central African Republic, ransack churches
By World Watch Monitor A three-month-old rebel uprising in the Central African Republic swept into the country’s capital Sunday, ousting the president and leaving ransacked Christian homes and churches in its wake. A source close to the Episcopal Conference of the Central African Republic told World Watch Monitor that many […]
US pastor imprisoned in Iran writes of torture
Joy of Lord and power to forgive sustaining him — Abedini Originally published in God Reports Pastor Saeed Abedini, a US citizen of Iranian descent imprisoned in Tehran, tells of the torture he has endured for his faith as well as the joy that comes with forgiving his perpetrators in […]
Indonesian church walls go up, then torn down by local government
Cheers went up as a backhoe tore down the barely finished walls of the Batak Protestant Church near Jakarta, Indonesia on Thursday. The pile of rubble that remained was only the latest setback to Christians trying to retain a toehold in the world’s most populous Muslim country. The church, in […]
Malatya massacre’s widow awaiting Turkish citizenship
Suzanne Geske, the widow of Tillmann Geske, who was killed in the 2007 Malatya Zirve Publishing House massacre, has applied for Turkish citizenship a second time after first being refused a passport. Geske told the Hürriyet Daily News that she made the second application 10 months but had yet to […]
Key signs that Al Qaeda’s Islamic extremism is moving into southern Africa
By Jay Radzinski and Daniel Nisman — Originally published in Alaska Dispatch “I pointed out to you the stars, and all you saw was the tip of my finger.” This Tanzanian proverb should resonate deeply with anyone who fears the spread of Islamic extremism in Africa. On Tanzania’s island paradise […]
Eritrea jails 125 Christians in campaign against ‘illegal’ worship
At least 1 500 Christians remain detained Originally published in Worthy News There was uncertainty Tuesday, March 5, about the situation of 125 Eritrean Christians who were “beaten and detained” in western Eritrea as part of a new government campaign against Christians worshiping outside the state-backed churches, rights investigators said. […]
Concern mounts over Christian pastors in Iranian prisons
Originally published in The Baptist Times A British charity has expressed its concern over the deteriorating health of a pastor imprisoned in Iran. Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW) has learned that Pastor Benham Irani, currently held in Ghezal Hesar prison in Iran, is now unable to walk and that medical assistance […]
Empire strikes back: China assaults home churches
By Lyn Leahz — Originally published in Christian News Source for Life China’s crackdown against its thriving home-church movement is surging, only a few months after it was reported the communist nation’s attacks on Christians had subsided, according to a new report from the Chinese-focused human rights group China Aid. […]