By Compass Direct News Hiba Abdelfadil Anglo, 16, has escaped from a gang of Muslims who kidnapped her last year, but it may be a long time before she recovers from the trauma. As she told Compass how the kidnappers beat, raped and tried to force her to convert from […]
Tag: Christian persecution
Muslim extremists torch churches in Zanzibar, Tanzania
By Simba Tian – Compass News Direct Muslim extremists on Saturday (July 30) burned down a church building on Zanzibar island off the coast of Tanzania, church leaders said, just three days after another congregation’s facility on the island was reduced to ashes. In Fuoni on the south coast […]
Pastor in Iran awaits decision on execution
By Contact News Direct A pastor in Iran found guilty of leaving Islam awaits the outcome of a judicial investigation into his spiritual background to see if he will be executed or, if possible, forced to become a Muslim, according to Christian groups with ties in Iran. The court-ordered investigation […]
Churches in Nigeria shuttered, reduced as terrorism rises
By Obed Minchakpu – Compass Direct News MAIDUGURI, Nigeria, July 13 – Christians in northern Nigeria’s Borno state, already forced to abandon worship services due to attacks by Islamic sect Boko Haram, are bracing for a massive assault to commemorate the death of the extremists group’s leader at the end […]
Messianic Christian couple in Israel accused of converting minor
By Wayne King – Compass Direct News A hard-line Jewish ultra-Orthodox group in Israel that singles out Jewish Christians known as Messianic Jews for harassment and abuse is taking aim at a couple it claims is manipulating minors into becoming Christians. The group, Yad L’Achim, this week placed leaflets around […]
Muslim mobs in Egypt attack Christian homes, threaten priest
By Wayne King – Compass Direct News Enraged Muslims burned down several Christian-owned homes, surrounded a church and threatened to kill a priest last week in two unrelated incidents in Upper Egypt. On Saturday (June 25) in Awlad Khalaf village, just outside Sohag, 240 miles (386 kilometers) south of Cairo, […]
Christian communities near Nigerian town disappearing
By Obed Minchakpu – Compass Direct News TAFAWA BALEWA, Nigeria — In a village outside this Bauchi state town in predominantly Muslim northern Nigeria, what was once a Christian community has vanished. Last March the Christian peasant farmers of Mdandi village, eight kilometers northwest of the Government Girls Secondary School […]
Pastor, church official shot dead by Muslim extremists in Nigeria
By Obed Minchakpu, Compass Direct News Muslim extremists from the Boko Haram sect on Tuesday (June 7) shot and killed a Church of Christ in Nigeria (COCIN) pastor and his church secretary in Maiduguri, in northeastern Nigeria’s Borno state. The Rev David Usman, 45, and church secretary Hamman Andrew were […]
Crackdown on Anglican Church in Zimbabwe
By Karen Peake – Originally published in Christianity Today The Anglican Church in Zimbabwe is facing a tough battle against state authorities and an ex-communicated bishop trying to take away its property and its freedom to worship. In the latest incident, sixteen churchgoers, including an elderly woman, were arrested and […]
Five years jail sentence for giving Christian CD to neighbour
Convicting a Christian convert for insulting the prophet of Islam, a judge in Algeria last week stunned the Christian community by sentencing him beyond what a prosecutor recommended, Compass News Direct reported on Monday (May 30). In Oran, 470 kilometers west of Algiers, a criminal court in the city’s Djamel […]