Africa

Cameroon: Boko Haram cut off women’s ears

04 Oct 2019
Boko Haram terrorists abducted three Christian women from their homes in a night-time raid on a mainly Christian town in the far north of Cameroon. They dragged their victims to the outskirts of…

Nigeria: government detains trafficking survivors

04 Oct 2019
According to a Human Rights Watch report, survivors of human trafficking are being locked up in shelters by the Nigerian government. 76 of them are women suffering from depression, anxiety, insomnia, flashbacks, aches…

UPRising South Africa – 4-6 October 2019

01 Oct 2019
UPRising South Africa - ‘PRAYER By Youth For Youth’ - 4-6 Oct 2019 The young people of UPRising (United Prayer Rising) are saying that as young people in the church, we are Uniting…

Nigeria: shocking story of martyrdom

01 Oct 2019
ABUJA, NIGERIA –  Chuck Holton of CBN visited a refugee camp for people who have been internally displaced from their villages in the north and to the west. 'There are about 2.5 million…

Algeria: churches under pressure

26 Sep 2019
Christians in Algeria have requested prayer as a campaign to close churches intensifies. Representatives of l’Église Protestante d’Algérie (EPA), the umbrella group of Protestant churches in Algeria, said most EPA-affiliated churches have been…

Chad: 30 killed in landslide

26 Sep 2019
Chad’s defence minister has said that a landslide at an illegal gold mine had killed about thirty people in a region near the Libyan border early on 24 September, and more victims might…

Burkina Faso: Islam gains as churches close

20 Sep 2019
When the Burkinabe people gained independence in 1960, the motto ‘Unity, progress, justice’ embodied hope for them. Currently almost eighty ethnic groups embrace religious practices: earth priests, fortune tellers, healers, witchcraft, and animal…

Nigeria: kidnapped Christians alive?

12 Sep 2019
More than a month after a video which implied that kidnapped Christian teenager Leah Sharibu had been killed, a presidential spokesman, citing intelligence from security agencies, released a statement stating that the government…

Uganda: homeless because of faith

12 Sep 2019
The seventh and youngest child of Lezia Nakayiza, a widow, didn’t know that his family was keeping their Christianity a secret. The 8-year-old boy didn’t realise that telling his Muslim relatives how much…

Burkina Faso: killed for wearing crosses

06 Sep 2019
Burkina Faso is quickly going from a peaceful farming nation to an extremist breeding ground. Attacks by IS and al-Qaeda militants have quadrupled since 2017. Over 70,000 people have fled their homes this…
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