A Kampala congregation “are in a week of praise, worship and thanking God for His protection” after police arrested a man who was trying to enter their church on Sunday with an improvised explosive device he planned to use for an attack there, a Ugandan pastor told Gateway News last […]
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NIGERIA — ‘We will kill train passengers if the government does not meet our demands’
Originally published by Agenzia Fides “We are not interested in money, the federal government knows what we are asking for”. In a video message posted on Wednesday, the group that attacked the train along the Abuja-Kaduna line on March 28, threatened to kill the captured hostages if their demands (which […]
‘Christians are on the blacklist’ in Burkina Faso where jihadist factions are running amok
Originally published in Christian Today Burkina Faso could be on the way to becoming the next Nigeria — a battleground for competing jihadist groups cutting a swathe across Africa. So fears a partner of Release International, which supports persecuted Christians around the world, writes Andrew Boyd. Picture a jihad, and […]
Yom Kippur attack in Germany prompts calls for action amidst rising antiSemitism
Compiled from reports in CBN News , The Times of Israel and Charisma News A terror attack near a synagogue in Halle, Germany that killed two people on Wednesday is “additional testimony that antisemitism in Europe is increasing,” said Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The anti-Semitic attack which took place during Yom […]
Six Biblical responses to Sri Lanka’s Easter bombings
Ajith Fernando, a theologian in Colombo, is teaching director of Youth for Christ, Sri Lanka, and author of Discipling in a Multicultural World (Crossway 2019). Following the brutal bombings on Easter Sunday across the nation of Sri Lanka, which killed at least 320 people, he declares that God gives Christians the freedom to […]
Shawn Bolz offers prophetic perspective into deadly Easter bombings in Sri Lanka
Originally published in Charisma News Prophet, author and pastor Shawn Bolz shares a word in the wake of the terror blasts at churches and hotels in Sri Lanka yesterday. The death toll from the bombings has reached 290 and the atrocity has been linked to an Islamist group Anytime there […]
Terror attack leaves “trail of pain and untold suffering” — Anglican Church of Kenya
Originally published in ACNS This week’s terror attack in Nairobi has “left behind a trail of pain and untold suffering among innocent and hardworking citizens”, the Anglican Church of Kenya said in a statement. At least 21 people are known to have been killed after militants from al-Shabaab, a Somalia-based […]
10 villagers beheaded by ‘Islamic jihadis’ in Mozambique
Originally published in The Christian Post Ten people, including women and children, were decapitated in the East African nation of Mozambique by suspected Islamic jihadis, government officials have said. The attack came on Sunday in the Monjane village in the Cabo Delgado province, which has large oil and gas reserves […]
Trump freezes R12.4bn in funding for jihadist hotbed Pakistan
Originally published in Charisma News The Trump administration has just announced it is freezing upwards of $1-billion (R12,4-billion) in security assistance funds to Pakistan. For years, Pakistan has taken billions in US tax dollars while supporting enemies of the United States, including the Taliban and Al Qaeda. No more. Now, […]
Netanyahu: Israel stopped airplane terror attacks in Europe
Originally published in Breaking Israel News On Tuesday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told a group of ambassadors from several of North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) countries that Israeli intelligence had prevented “several dozen major terrorist attacks” on European cities, including some 9-11 type plots that “involved civil aviation”. “When we […]