A period of mourning was expected to continue Saturday, September 17, among Christians in his native Italy and the African Republic of the Congo, where thousands attended the funeral of Italian Franciscan missionary Angelo Redaelli, 40, who was lynched earlier in the week, missionary and church sources said.
Police of the troubled African nation of Eritrea have arrested a Christian bridal couple and their 18 wedding guests and churches expressed concern about “widening” religious “persecution” in the country, news reports said Thursday, September 8.
Three months after 250 wedding guests were arrested in the Eritrean capital for attending a Protestant Christian wedding, 129 of them remain jailed under severe conditions.
A human rights group has expressed concern about the plight of native and other missionaries in Ethiopia amid reported anti-Christian violence and warnings Thursday, July 28, of famine in several areas.
A band of Muslim militants, which had pronounced a death sentence on a Christian family because one of its young members allegedly sold pork, has assaulted her 57-year-old father, Emma Osagie.
In “a blow” to Christian pioneer work in the troubled African nation of Togo, a native missionary was seriously injured when he was thrown from his motorbike, Christian Aid Mission (CAM) said Tuesday, June 28.
Andrew Akume, a Christian lecturer at Ahmadu Bello University (ABU) in Zaria city, Kaduna state, northern Nigeria, has disappeared since the issuance of a death sentence against him. A militant Muslim group at ABU passed the sentence on him claiming he blasphemed Mohammed, the prophet of Islam.
Christian leaders in northern Nigeria submitted a memorandum to the nation’s National Political Reform Conference on Thursday, June 9, cataloguing cases of persecution and discrimination against Christians.
Three students expelled for sharing the gospel in November last year say their fundamental rights as Christians were violated by the authorities of the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University (ATBU) in the town of Bauchi in northern Nigeria.
A Protestant pastor arrested four months ago for participating in a church wedding has broken under severe mistreatment at Eritrea’s military training center in Sawa this past week, falling seriously ill and suffering a mental breakdown.
Voodoo leaders in the African nation of Benin who kidnapped and threatened to possibly “sacrifice” the children of a missionary couple to a Voodoo god, have returned them to their parents, missionaries confirmed, Wednesday, May 18.
Nigerian police have made dozens of arrests after religious violence reportedly killed up to 18 people, most of them Christians, including one girl who was first raped and poisoned to death by Muslim militants.
Voodoo leaders in a rural area of the African nation of Benin have attacked Christian missionaries and kidnapped their two young children to kill and “sacrifice” them to a voodoo god, sources told BosNewsLife Tuesday, May 3.
Currently 16 full-time pastors are among nearly 900 Eritrean Christians known to be jailed in local prisons, military confinement camps and shipping containers for daring to meet secretly for prayer and worship outside government-sanctioned churches.
Native missionaries in Liberia are rebuilding damaged churches and evangelizing to help end ethnic and religious strife in the African nation, where two United Nations peacekeepers were injured Wednesday, March 23, UN and Christian officials said.
A leading evangelical pastor disappeared off the streets of Asmara four days ago, presumably detained by Eritrean security forces and jailed at some unknown location.
Last Sunday evening, Eritrean security police arrested 16 Protestants for watching a Christian video together in a church member’s home in the town of Adi-Kibe.
The last 30 from a group of 131 Sunday school leaders and children have been released from custody, but a further church leader has been arrested.
Another 31 Eritrean Christians have been jailed by police in towns north of the capital Asmara over the past 10 days. The latest police sweeps brings the total to 187 arrests for “illegal” Christian activities in Eritrea since the beginning of January.
Eritrea’s controversial President Isaias Afwerki ended a three day official visit to Pakistan Sunday, February 27, pledging to respect “democratic values” amid pressure at home to release hundreds of Christians, including children.