Christian aid groups, along with pesticide-wielding UN troops, are deploying to eastern Africa to fight a locust swarm that experts say is the worst to hit the region in 70 years and could grow by 500 times between now and June.
...continue reading this storyA congregation on Tanzania’s semi-autonomous island of Zanzibar has been without a place to worship this year after local authorities demolished their church building, the pastor said.
...continue reading this storyYet another church in north-west Tanzania was burnt to the ground this month, but its congregation has refused to stop meeting.
...continue reading this storyThree pastors on Tanzania's Mafia island were summoned by the district registration office last week, confirming fears that the recent government threat to close the island's churches would soon start.
...continue reading this storyThe Tanzanian Minister of Home Affairs threatened that churches and other religious organizations that publicly oppose the country's new constitution will be unregistered beginning on April 20.
...continue reading this storyTwo Christians have been killed and many more arrested across Tanzania over the ritual slaughter of livestock for sale.
...continue reading this storyDozens of Christian worship places have been destroyed by Islamic extremists in Tanzania and church leaders are fleeing its heavily Muslim island of Zanzibar, as the persecution of Christians spreads throughout East Africa, a human rights chief said Monday, November 12.
...continue reading this storyMore than 100 followers of an Islamist separatist group have been arrested in Tanzania earlier this month during sectarian riots in which several churches were set ablaze.
...continue reading this storyIslamists burned down a church on Zanzibar Island Saturday just three days after another church facility there was reduced to ashes.
...continue reading this storyTwo Christian evangelists were free Sunday, August 15, after a court in Tanzania acquitted them of "illegal preaching", trial observers said.
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