Tag: Mombasa

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

Nairobi church stands strong after grenade kills boy, injures others

October 11, 2012 Kenya Al-Shabaab, Garissa, Kenya, Mombasa, Nairobi

“Every week we wondered ‘What if it’s this week?’ Yet every week we turned up for church.” Speaking to World Watch Monitor just after her Oct. 9 return from the funeral of 9-year-old John Ian Maina, Nairobi Sunday School teacher Sally Gatei was in reflective mood. “I told the team . . . Read More

Explosion at Christian meeting in Kenya kills boy, woman

April 3, 2012 Kenya Al-Shabaab, Islamic extremism, Kenya, Mombasa, Sharia

An 8-year-old boy died today from injuries after suspected Islamic extremists on Saturday (March 31) threw a grenade into a Christian revival meeting near Kenya’s coastal town of Mombasa that instantly killed a woman and injured at least 30 people. Kenyan Internal Security Minister George Saitoti said Islamic extremists from . . . Read More

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