Christians at Nairobi Pentecostal Church (NPC) began a three-day fast yesterday after a letter written to their bishop warned of an imminent attack on Christian radio station Hope FM. The threat comes seven months after a raid on the station, located on church property, left one person dead.
...continue reading this storyThe Washington-DC based human rights group, International Christian Concern (ICC) www.persecution.org has learned that in early October, a mob of three hundred Muslims murdered six Christians, and seriously wounded fifteen others during a midnight worship service in Beshasha, a town located in the Agaro province, 408 kilometers West of Addis Ababa.
...continue reading this storyAn Anglican Priest named Rev. Godfrey Tabura killed at Kyenda in Mubende District on Saturday evening, the 25th of November. He was shot dead by unidentified gunmen while riding home on a motorcycle.
...continue reading this storyA Nairobi court yesterday acquitted two U.S. evangelists and their Kenyan counterparts of charges of inciting Muslims to violence.
...continue reading this storyAmid mounting international pressure Eritrea's authorities have released Helen Berhane, an Eritrean Gospel singer who was jailed since May 2004, Christian rights investigators confirmed Saturday, November 4.
...continue reading this storyIn a large-scale roundup the past week, Eritrean authorities have detained 150 Christians from at least five of the country’s outlawed churches.
...continue reading this storyTensions are rising across the Horn of Africa – there is death and danger. Irredentist Somali Islamists have declared jihad against Ethiopia. Christians are being attacked and murdered by Muslims in Ethiopia. Eritrea, which is accused of arming the Somali Islamists, is exploiting an opportunity and has breached the 2000 cease-fire agreement by moving troops into the Eritrea-Ethiopia border buffer zone. Two Protestant Christians were recently tortured to death in Eritrea. The savagery of persecution appears to be escalating in proportion to regional tensions -- and it could be about to get much worse.
...continue reading this storyReligious rights investigators expressed concern Thursday, October 19, about the situation of evangelical Christians in Ethiopia after Muslim leaders reportedly attacked dozens of believers, seriously injuring 12 people, including a pregnant woman, outside Addis Ababa, the capital.
...continue reading this storyEritrean security police tortured two Christians to death yesterday, two days after arresting them for holding a religious service in a private home south of Asmara.
...continue reading this storyA Muslim sheikh jailed in Egypt for 18 months has declared from his prison cell that he is under arrest for “insulting Islam†by becoming a Christian.
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