Two Churches Burned Down in Zanzibar

Compass Direct News reports:

NAIROBI, Kenya  – Two church buildings were razed Sunday night June 28 on the Tanzanian island of Zanzibar after worship services.

Suspected radical Muslims set the church buildings on fire on the outskirts of Unguja Township, on the island off the coast of East Africa, in what church leaders called the latest incidents of a rising tide of religious intolerance.

“We don’t want churches on our street,” read a flier dropped at the door of Charles Odilo, who had donated the plot on which the Evangelical Assemblies of God in Tanzania EAGT building stood. “Today we are going to burn the church, and if you continue we are going to burn your house also.”

With Christian movements making inroads in the Muslim-dominated area, the EAGT church and a Pentecostal Evangelical Fellowship in Africa PEFA church building a few miles away were burned down as a fierce warning, church leaders said.

Read the full report at Compass Direct News.