by Publisher | Jan 31, 2016 | News, South Sudan, Sudan
Other Sudanese Church of Christ leader remains in detention without charges. JUBA, South Sudan (Morning Star News) – Sudanese authorities have released one of two pastors detained in December, sources said. The Rev. Kwa Shamaal, head of missions for the Sudanese...
by Publisher | Jan 29, 2016 | Mexico, News
Twenty Protestant families were forcibly displaced from their homes on 26 January in Tuxpan de Bolaos, Bolaos municipality in the state of Jalisco because of their religious beliefs. The group of approximately 50 individuals, including children, are all Baptists and...
by Publisher | Jan 29, 2016 | China, News
(Daguan, Guizhou—Jan. 29, 2016) A public security bureau (PSB) in China’s southern Guizhou province recently transferred the cases of five Christians to the local Procuratorate for prosecution after receiving orders in late November to investigate the incident...
by Publisher | Jan 29, 2016 | News, Nigeria
Attacks hit Christian communities of Chibok, Borno state, and Gombi, Adamawa. JOS, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – Suicide attacks on two predominantly Christian communities in northeast Nigeria today and on Wednesday (Jan. 27) left at least 26 persons dead and dozens...
by Publisher | Jan 28, 2016 | News, Sri Lanka |
Sri Lanka’s minority religious groups are concerned after Buddhist hardliners reacted angrily to the President’s proposed new constitution. President Maithripala Sirisena’s new constitution, proposed on 9 Jan., would decentralise power in a bid to prevent ethnic...
by Publisher | Jan 28, 2016 | China, News
(Hangzhou, Zhejiang—Jan. 28, 2015) Ten days after officials in China’s coastal Zhejiang province released a notice detailing the forced removal of a pastor from his position at China’s largest government-sanctioned church, the pastor was taken into custody today and...
by Publisher | Jan 27, 2016 | News, Nigeria |
Please pray for our brothers and sisters in Nigeria who have been killed and driven from their homes in attacks by armed Fulani herdsmen. Release partners in Nigeria report a series of attacks in Gire and Riyom local government areas. Fulani herdsmen reportedly...
by Publisher | Jan 27, 2016 | News, Nigeria
Two kidnapped, another wounded by gunshot amid abduction of parishioner. JOS, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – Two Nigerian pastors have been abducted this month in Kogi state, as kidnapping cartels that have plagued the central state the past three years directed their...
by Publisher | Jan 26, 2016 | News, South Sudan, Sudan
Suspect tells police they were ‘sent’ from Sudan, source says. JUBA, South Sudan (Morning Star News) – Muslim extremists from Sudan have been arrested in connection with the burning of a church building in South Sudan, sources said. Members of the Sudanese Church of...
by Publisher | Jan 22, 2016 | News, Sudan
Christian Solidarity Worldwide has learned that Reverend Kwa Shamal of the Sudan Church of Christ, who was arrested by National Intelligence and Security Service (NISS) officers in December 2015, was unconditionally released on Saturday 16 January 2016. His colleague...
by Publisher | Jan 21, 2016 | News, Russia |
Please pray for our brothers and sisters in a Pentecostal church in Russia which has been attacked by armed men. The attackers raided Emmanuel Church in Alexandrov town while the worship team were rehearsing. Armed with a knife, the men attacked two Christians and...
by Publisher | Jan 21, 2016 | India, News |
Attacks on Christians in India were reported on an almost daily basis in 2015, according to a Christian advocacy group. “The country saw 355 incidents of violence, including 200 major incidents, during the last year,” Joseph Dias, convener of Mumbai-based Catholic...
