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Police Beat, Arrest Evangelist in Sudan
KHARTOUM, Sudan (Compass Direct News) – Police this week beat and arrested a church leader in Khartoum, sources told Compass. Evangelist James Kat of the Evangelical Church of Sudan was arrested on Tuesday morning (Jan. 17), with officers beating him as they took him to a North Division police station, the sources said. He was released on bail the same day. Police detained Kat, who lives at the church site, apparently because he was using the place … Read entire article »
Filed under: Christian, Compass Direct, Muslim, Persecution, Sudan
Sudan Threatens to Arrest Church Leaders
Christians subject to stricter controls, religious freedom violations. KHARTOUM, Sudan (Compass Direct News) – Sudan’s Ministry of Guidance and Religious Endowments has threatened to arrest church leaders if they carry out evangelistic activities and do not comply with an order for churches to provide their names and contact information, Christian sources said. The warning in a Jan. 3 letter to church leaders of the Sudan Presbyterian Evangelical Church (SPEC) arrived a few days after Sudan President Omar … Read entire article »
Filed under: Christian, Compass Direct, Muslim, Persecution, Sudan
Muslim Extremists Strike at Christians in East African Isles
By Simba Tian NAIROBI, Kenya (Compass Direct News) – Far from the world media’s gaze in remote islands off the eastern coast of Africa, church buildings are razed and Christians are ostracized and imprisoned for their faith. On Tanzania’s island of Zanzibar, in one week-long stretch last month Muslim extremists destroyed two church buildings, Christian leaders said. The extremists torched the building of the Pentecostal Evangelical Fellowship of Africa in Mtufani Mwera, about 12 kilometers (seven miles) … Read entire article »
Filed under: Compass Direct, Muslim, Persecution, Tanzania
Death Toll Soars In Northern Nigeria
SANTA ANA, Calif. – The number of Christians killed in an Islamic extremist attack in Gombe, Nigeria, on Jan. 5 has risen to nine. Also, over the weekend Boko Haram extremists killed at least 21 Christians in neighboring Adamawa state, sources told Compass Direct News. Members of the Boko Haram group that seeks to impose Sharia (Islamic law) on Nigeria emerged from a mosque near the Deeper Life Bible Church in the Boso area of … Read entire article »
Filed under: Christian, Muslim, Nigeria, Open Doors, Persecution
40 Dead in Christmas Day Attacks in Nigeria
Over 40 people are thought to have died in a series of Christmas Day bomb and gun attacks that targeted churches and members of the security services in five states in northern and central Nigeria. The Islamist militia Boko Haram has claimed responsibility for the attacks, which occurred in Niger, Plateau, Yobe, Adamawa and Borno States. The majority of fatalities occurred at St Theresa’s Catholic Church in Madalla, Niger State, where bombers in a vehicle … Read entire article »
Filed under: Christian, Christian Solidarity Worldwide, Muslim, Nigeria, Persecution
