East Africa
One of the leaders of Al-Shabaab in Kenya was added to the US State Department’s Specially Designated Global terrorist list on 8 March. Abdifatah Abubakar Abdi was directly implicated in the 2014 attack on the Christian-majority Kenyan ...
Recent Al-Shabaab attacks on Christians in northern Kenya have left children traumatised, shut down transport links and severed trust between Somali locals and Christians, who are now the targets of public abuse. Barnabas Fund‘s project partner ...
Al-Shabaab militants murdered three Christians in an attack on a primary school compound in the village of Qarsa, north-east Kenya on 16 February. Armed men forced their way into a house within the compound of ...
South Sudan church leaders, including the acting Anglican Primate Archbishop Peter Munde Yacoub and the Bishop of Yambio have backed backed Pope Francis’ call for a special day of prayer (23 February) for the embattled ...
A church in Marsabit, northern Kenya, was attacked by Muslim youths on Saturday 13 January after police arrested a local cleric who is accused of recruiting young people to join the Somali-based terror group Al Shabaab. Muslim ...
A bomb targeted at residential houses inside a church compound in Mandera town failed to hit its mark on 26 November. The Improvised Explosive Device (IED) exploded outside the church’s perimeter wall. “We thank God … We ...
Protests have been mounted in Eritrea’s capital city, Asmara, against government plans to take over all schools. Last week (31 October 2017) armed security officers responded by chasing protesters with sticks and eventually, shooting at them ...
Suspected Al-Shabaab Islamic militants attacked St Paul’s Anglican Church, Ukunda, Kwale County, about 30 kilometres south of Mombasa killing two police officers. A worship service was going on when four gunmen came towards the church, ...
Sudanese police arrested and detained seven church leaders in Omdurman, one of the major cities in Sudan on Wednesday 23 August for over six hours for refusing a takeover of the Sudanese Church of Christ ...
Archbishop Ezekiel Kondo Kumir Kuku has been installed as the first Archbishop of the newest 39th province of the Anglican Communion in the Sudan, by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Archbishop Justin Welby at the All ...
