East Africa
About seven Ethiopian Protestant Churches were torched and others completelydestroyed, on Saturday 9 February,in Halaba Kulito town in Southern Ethiopiaby Muslims following allegations trending on social media that Mosques had been destroyed in Alaba Kulit. Mohammed Nur, ...
The Ecumenical Council of Churches in Zambia (CCZ), has expressedits “deep concern” over the crisis in Zimbabwe in which soldiers embarked on random arrests and detention of citizens in a government crackdown on protesters and ...
Al-Shabaab radical Islamic terrorist group has attacked the DusitD2 Hotel in Nairobi, Kenya, on Tuesday 15 January, killing 21 people and injuring 28 with 19 still missing according to Kenya’s Red Cross. Among those killed are Jason ...
Violence against Christians in eastern Uganda is beginning to take an alarming trend with audacious attacks against christians becoming more frequent, a Washington Times news report says. Christians in the region “are among those in ...
The bodies of 34 Ethiopian Christians executed by ISIS Jihadists in Sirte, Libya, in 2015 have have been exhumed from a mass grave, on Sunday 23 December, following information obtained during interrogations of arrested ISIS ...
The South Sudan President, Salva Kiir Mayardiit, and his long time foe, now Vice President, Riek Machar Teny-Dhurgon, inn their Christmas message to the young country deeply divided along ethnic lines, on Tuesday 25 December, ...
Islamist militants armed with machetes rampaged through a village in northern Mozambique at dawn on 5 June, beheading seven people and burning 164 houses. The brutal onslaught is just one of a wave of an estimated ...
A Kenyan Jesuit priest, Father Victor Luke Odhiambo, 62, Director of the Teacher’s Training Centre in Gok State, has been shot and killed by armed men in South Sudan on Wednesday night, 14 November, the ...
Direct threats of violence against two Kenyan missionary couples and their five children have forced the families to evacuate from north-east Kenya last week. Threats of an imminent attack were made against the missionaries who ...
The government of the increasingly authoritarian president Paul Kagame’s has shut down thousands of churches across Rwanda, citing building code violations in a move that has reportedly left some Christians worshipping in caves. The closures began in ...
