Bid seen to use plague as cover to regulate Uganda faith community Following the full-blown spread of COVID-19 early this year several governments imposed measures to curb the virus — the most common being general shutting down of economies, commonly referred to as lockdown. In Uganda the lockdown was imposed […]
By Janenne Pung — Originally published in Charisma News Amid America’s chaos, California worship leader Sean Feucht is hosting outdoor worship services — all over the country. A video posted on Instagram from Friday, September 11 in Fort Collins, Colorado, shows people singing, laughing, crying, dancing and praying. People are […]
Reports that the Eritrean government has released 27 Christian prisoners of faith raises hopes for the release of other church leaders who still remain behind bars, says Filmon Tesfai, a fugitive from Eritrea and missionary with Voice of the Martyrs (VoM) South Africa. “These believers stayed from two to 16 […]
By Jayson Casper — Originally published in Christianity Today In signing successive peace deals with entrenched rebel movements last week, Sudan drew upon the legacy of Thomas Jefferson. “The constitution should be based on the principle of ‘separation of religion and state,’” read the text of an agreement between the […]
Originally published in CBN News Churches in California have repeatedly been under attack for exercising their First Amendment rights by gathering to pray and worship. Now they are facing fines for singing together. Liberty Counsel, a Christian religious rights law firm, reported that Godspeak Calvary Chapel in Thousand Oaks was […]
Originally published in CSW News A Shari’a court in the Hausawa Filin Hockey area of Kano City in Kano state, northern Nigeria, has sentenced a minor to 10 years in prison with menial labour for blasphemy. Umar Farouk, 13, was found guilty on 10 August of using foul language against […]
Africa4Palestine “distorted and twisted” his Bible-based reflections in a webinar last month and sought to take away his constitutional rights to freedom of religion and expression despite failing to highlight any constitutional value or provision that he violated, Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng says in his response to their complaint against […]
Christian Consensus in South Africa emailed a letter to the editor of Daily Maverick on Monday asking for a public apology from the online newspaper and cartoonist Zapiro for publishing a cartoon (see above) that ridicules Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng and the Bible. In the letter on behalf of Christian Consensus […]
Originally published in The Christian Post The transitional government in Sudan passed a series of amendments that repeal the death sentence for apostasy, public flogging and female genital mutilation, giving Christians hope for the future following the toppling of the Islamist regime of President Omar al-Bashir last year. Sudanese Minister […]
A petition calling on President Cyril Ramaphosa to publicly support Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng’s constitutional right to express his Christian views on Israel garnered more than 30 000 signatures in six days, said Vivienne Myburgh national director of International Christian Embassy Jerusalem, South Africa branch (ICEJ SA). The petition sponsors, […]