East Africa
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 ...
Al-Shabaab terrorists murdered two Kenyan Christians travelling on a bus on 14 September after they refused to recite the shahada Islamic creed. The terrorists flagged down a bus travelling to the north-eastern city of Garissa and ...
Nineteen people, including the Anglican Bishop of Yirol, Simon Adut, have been killed in a plane crash in South Sudan on Sunday 9 September, the regional government minister, Mr Abel Aguek, has said. “When it ...
A leading Ugandan Archbishop has asked religious leaders to ‘preach the gospel’ rather than get involved with political issues. But Christian leaders said that the Archbishop of the Church of Uganda, the Most Rev Stanley ...
South Sudan’s First Vice President, General Taban Deng Gai, has pleaded with the Church to “to reconcile the communities” that have been divided by conflict since 2013, shortly after its independence from Sudan. Speaking at ...
Churches were burnt and priests killed in Ethiopia when violence broke out in the east Somali region of the country where ethnic Somalis were said to have torched, looted and destroyed property belonging to indigenous ...
Eritrean Christians have applauded the release of 35 Christian prisoners from Eritrean prisons as a result of the signing of the peace deal with Ethiopia though hundreds of Christians still remain in various prisons in ...
