Islamic Extremists Kill Somali Church Leader

By Jeremy Reynalds, Correspondent for ASSIST News Service

WASHINGTON, D.C.  – A human rights group has learned that members of al-Shabab a Somali Islamic extremist group have killed yet another leader of an underground church in the Somalia capital of Mogadishu. Read the rest of this entry »

Islamic Extremists in Somalia Kill Another Church Leader

By Dan Wooding, Founder of ASSIST Ministries

MAREREY, SOMALIA (ANS) — Compass Direct News (www.compassdirect.org) has revealed that Islamic militants in Somalia this week killed a woman who led an underground Christian movement in the war-torn country. Read the rest of this entry »

Christian Shot and Killed After Converting from Islam

Compass Direct News reports

AIROBI, Kenya – Muslim extremists early this morning killed a Christian convert in Mahadday Weyne, Somalia, 100 kilometers 62 miles north of Mogadishu.

Al Shabaab Islamist rebels shot Mohammed Sheikh Abdiraman to death at 7 a.m., eyewitnesses told Compass. They said the Islamic extremists appeared to have been hunting the convert from Islam, and when they found him they did not hesitate to shoot him. Read the rest of this entry »

Islamist Behead Sons of Christian Leader

Compass Direct News reports:

NAIROBI, Kenya, – Islamic extremists have beheaded two young boys in Somalia because their Christian father refused to divulge information about a church leader, and the killers are searching Kenya’s refugee camps to do the same to the boys’ father. Read the rest of this entry »

Kenyan Pastor Beaten at Somaliland Border

Compass Direct News reports:

NAIROBI, Kenya – A pastor trying to visit Somalia’s autonomous, self-declared state of Somaliland earlier this year discovered just how hostile the separatist region can be to Christians.

A convert from Islam, Abdi Welli Ahmed is an East Africa Pentecostal Church pastor from Kenya who in February tried to visit and encourage Christians, an invisibly tiny minority, in the religiously intolerant region of Somaliland. Read the rest of this entry »