Thousands of women dressed in black have marched through the streets of the troubled Nigerian city of Jos “to mourn, pray and protest” against the killings of possible hundreds of people, most of them Christians, by suspected Muslim mobs.
A baby boy was reportedly fighting for his life Saturday, March 13, after Moroccan authorities expelled his Christian foster parents and some 70 other foreign Christian aid workers for allegedly trying to convert local Muslims.
Bodies of the dead — including many women and children — lined dusty streets in three mostly Christian villages south of Nigeria’s regional capital of Jos early Monday, March 8, after rioters armed with machetes “slaughtered” over 200 people here, witnesses said.
Christians in a detention camp in Eritrea faced a difficult Sunday, February 21, as news emerged that one of their fellow inmate died of a heart attack in the notorious Alla Military Camp after alleged abuses.
There was concern Friday, February 19, that Ethiopian authorities would press “terrorism” charges against a Christian convert who has been detained since May for distributing Bibles and abandoning Islam, well-informed Christians said.
Moroccan security forces raided a Bible study group and detained 18 Moroccans while deporting an American citizen, Worthy News learned Friday, February 12.
A tense calm returned to the Nigerian city of Jos Saturday, January 30, after hundreds of people were killed in days of clashes between Muslims and Christians, missionaries said.
Over 40 people have been killed in the Nigerian city of Jos in the country’s Plateau State, after around 200 Muslim youths attacked Christians near a Catholic Church sparking retaliatory violence, Christian rights investigators said Monday, January 18.
Islamists burned and looted a Protestant church in northern Algeria in an attack that was fueled by violence against Christians elsewhere in the Muslim and Arab world, church officials said Monday, January 11.
One of the world’s largest mission agencies, Open Doors, named North Korea and Iran Wednesday, November 6, as “the worst persecutors of Christians”.
Tensions remained high in a northern Algerian city Monday, January 3, after a Muslim mob reportedly prevented Christian converts from holding a Christmas service and threatened to kill their church pastor.
Coptic Christians in the United States will protest against an “increase” in Islamic attacks against Egypt’s Christian minority and the “refusal” by authorities to halt the violence, organizers said Monday, December 14.
Security forces in Eritrea have detained dozens, mostly elderly, Christian women in the capital Amara as part of a crackdown on evangelical activities, an advocacy group said Monday, December 7.
Islamic militants have killed the leader of an underground church in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu, a well-informed Christian rights group said Monday, November 16.
Christians in Ethiopia’s capital Addis Ababa were anticipating the return Thursday, October 29, of two evangelists who were imprisoned for three months on what believers said were “false charges” of “offering money for conversion” and “insulting” the Ethiopian Orthodox Church (EOC).
Ethiopian police was still searching for key suspects Friday, October 2, after hundreds of angry Muslims reportedly attacked evangelical churches in the western Arsi zone of Ethiopia, injuring at least three Christians.
Egyptian police have detained a Muslim man who allegedly killed a Coptic Christian and seriously injured two other Copts in two different villages, north of the capital Cairo, Christians said Wednesday September 23.
Christians from all denominations will attend prayer services in Nigeria and Britain Friday, September 11, to remember last month’s Islamic attacks against especially Nigerian Christians in which over 1,000 people died, organizers of the gatherings said.
The head of Sudan’s Anglican church confirmed Thursday, September 3, that armed groups are killing Christians and others in the south of this predominantly Islamic country “to disrupt a peace agreement” that ended 20 years of civil war.
Christians in Somalia were facing another potential day of bloodshed Monday, August 24, amid fresh reports that Muslim militants are hunting down converts to Christianity, killing at least one man in recent days for abandoning Islam.