Tag: East Africa

UPDATE: Trial of S. Sudan pastors begins, then is delayed

May 18, 2015 Sudan East Africa, Khartoum, NISS, Omdurman, South Sudan, Sudan, Sudan Presbyterian Evangelical Church

UPDATE (19 May) After the 19 May start of the trial of Yat Michael and Peter Yein, the judge ordered a 12-day recess. Nahmia Shaloka, a Sudanese lawyer who left the country because of his human rights activity and now lives in the United States, said a judge of Khartoum . . . Read More

Kenyan churches ‘targeted’ for attack

April 29, 2015 Kenya Al-Shabaab, Churches, East Africa, Garissa, Kenya, Nairobi, Pentecostals

Police in Kenya have issued a warning that Nairobi’s churches and university are at risk of a new attack by Al-Shabaab. The warning, circulated via the president’s office on April 23, states that Al-Shabaab has dispatched spies to launch ‘high scale attacks’ on ‘unspecified dates’. The letter states that major . . . Read More

Kenya mourns students ‘killed while praying’

April 9, 2015 Kenya Al-Shabaab, East Africa, Garissa, Kenya, Nairobi, Sub-Saharan Africa, Uhuru Kenyatta, Westgate

A memorial service will be held in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, today (9 April) to commemorate the 148 students killed by Al-Shabaab last week. Kenyans are still in shock following the attack in the north-east of the country at Garissa University College on 2 April, where Christians were singled out . . . Read More

2014: A year of rising hostility toward Christians

January 7, 2015 Global News -- No Particular Country Africa, Al-Qaeda, Al-Shabaab, Asia, Boko Haram, Buddhist nationalism, Central African Republic, China, Communism, Converts, East Africa, Fulani herdsmen, Hindu nationalism, India, Iraq, Islamic extremism, Islamic State, Latin America, Malaysia, Mexico, Middle Belt, Middle East, Narendra Modi, Nigeria, North Korea, Religious freedom, Sri Lanka, Sub-Saharan Africa, Syria

While the world’s eyes were riveted to Syria and Iraq in 2014, life for Christians worsened even more profoundly in Africa, according to an annual report on religious freedom. The situation deteriorated most rapidly in Sub-Saharan Africa, in countries where Islamic extremism is the main source of pressure upon Christians, . . . Read More

Tanzanian teacher murdered in church, pastor and wife on Zanzibar attacked by extremists

October 21, 2014 Tanzania Acid attacks, Arusha, Bukoba, Censorship, East Africa, Islamic extremism, Kagera, Mwanza, Pentecostals, Tanzania, Zanzibar

Pastor Crodward Edwar (centre) at a press conference about the Bukoba murderHarakati News blog Unknown attackers killed a Christian man by machete and injured another in Bukoba in northwest Tanzania on Thursday, Oct. 9, according to sources. This followed another recent incident on Zanzibar island in which a pastor . . . Read More

South Sudan’s transitional Government to aid crisis

June 16, 2014 South Sudan Bor, Dinka, East Africa, Juba, Nuer, Riek Machar, Salva Kiir, Sanctions, South Sudan, White Army

South Sudan has agreed to end fighting and pledged to set up a transitional government within 60 days and to resolve the conflict that’s caused a massive humanitarian crisis -resulting in thousands being killed and more than 1 million people fleeing their homes since December. In a rare meeting between . . . Read More

Uganda churches warned of Al-Shabaab ‘threats’

May 22, 2014 Uganda Al-Shabaab, East Africa, Islamic extremism, Kampala, Kenya, Somalia

Uganda and Kenya authorities have scaled up security in recent days in response to warnings from Western countries that a jihadist group is planning to attack churches in Uganda. The U.S. embassy in Uganda warned that churches there may face “specific threats” from Al-Shabaab, a Somalia-based militant Islamist terrorist group. . . . Read More

‘White Widow’ key suspect in Kenyan pastors’ murders

November 21, 2013 Kenya Al-Shabaab, East Africa, Kenya, Mombasa, Nairobi, Pentecostals, Westgate

Fort Jesus, Mombasa.Ricky Thakrar / Flickr / Creative Commons The widow of one of the bombers on the London Tube in July 2005, 29-year-old Samantha Lewthwaite, has been named in connection with the murders of two Kenyan pastors. Lewthwaite is wanted for seven murders in Kenya altogether, including the . . . Read More

Two pastors killed in Kenya

October 29, 2013 Kenya Al-Shabaab, East Africa, Mombasa, Nairobi, Pentecostals, Somalia, Uhuru Kenyatta, Westgate

Mombasa.Lauren Pressley / Flickr / Creative Commons Two pastors from southern coastal towns in Kenya were killed last weekend in separate attacks. Charles Mathole, a leader of Mombasa’s Redeemed Gospel Church in Mtopanga, was found dead in church on the morning of Sunday October 20, shot in the head . . . Read More

Tension high as Mombasa Muslims protest cleric’s murder

October 9, 2013 Kenya East Africa, Mombasa, Nairobi, Pentecostals, Westgate

Tension remains high in Kenya’s port city of Mombasa after riots in protest at the murder of a prominent Muslim cleric on Thursday (October 3) left four dead, about eight injured and the Majengo Salvation Army Church razed on Friday. It is just over a year since the church suffered a . . . Read More

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