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Catholic priest in war-torn Sudanese state repeatedly detained

A Roman Catholic priest of Kadugli parish in Sudan's embattled South Kordofan is in hiding after being detained three times in the past three months. .

  • Nigeria: soldiers sent to southern Kaduna following armed attack on village

    Soldiers and riot police have been drafted to Bitaro Village in southern Kaduna State following an armed attack that occurred in the early hours of Sunday. Four people were killed and over ten injured when armed Fulani tribesmen stormed the village in Jaba Local Government Area (LGA), Southern Kaduna, in Nigeria's Middle Belt.

  • Singer song writer Garvin Arthur joins the LWFCI team for London's Bridging the Gap

    Lay Witnesses for Christ International's Board of Directors have unanimously endorsed its Presidents' (Dr. Sam Mings, Sr.) recommendation to appoint Garvin Arthur to provide leadership as 2012 UK Gospel Music Director for Lay Witnesses for Christ International (LWFCI) forthcoming eighth (8th) outreach during the Summer Olympics. Lay Witnesses for Christ International is known as 'Chaplains to the World's great Champions' for \'London Bridging the Gap\' outreach.

  • Catholics in Mexico threaten to kill Protestants

    About 70 Protestant Christians lived in the village of San Rafael Tlanalapan, Puebla state, until Monday (Sept. 12), when they faced a frightening ultimatum – leave immediately or be "crucified or lynched."

  • Christians in Somalia bear the brunt of Al-Shabaab's terror

    The decapitated body of a Christian man, Juma Nuradin Kamil, was found in Bakool region of southwestern Somalia on Sept. 2. The killing, one of the numerous such incidents in recent years, comes at a time when tens of thousands of Somalis have died, and about 750,000 more are at risk of death, some of them Christians who are being denied aid, in the wake of the 21st century's worst drought in the Horn of Africa.

  • Nigeria: concerns about impartiality as military takes over security for Jos

    Following two weeks of conflict and two bomb attacks on Sunday 11 September, Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan announcement placing Chief of Defence Staff Air Vice Marshall Oluseyi Petinrin in charge of security matters in Plateau State and permitting the military to "take all necessary measures" to end the violence is generally welcomed as an acknowledgement of the seriousness of the situation there. However, concerns remain following repeated reports from eyewitnesses of military complicit

  • Mexico: CSW calls on Mexican government to protect religious minorities in Puebla state

    Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW) is calling on the Mexican government to protect religious minorities in the state of Puebla, where over the last few months, non-Catholics have come under attack by traditionalist authorities and church leaders have expressed fear for their lives.

  • Muslim extremists in Sudan threaten to target Christians

    Muslim extremists have sent text messages to at least 10 church leaders in Khartoum saying they are planning to target Christian leaders, buildings and institutions, Christian sources in Khartoum said.

  • Somali convert to Christianity kidnapped, beheaded

    Islamic extremists from al Shabaab suspected of murdering Christian.

  • Iranian Christian recounts 105 days experience in Evin prison for his faith

    It was early in the morning the day after Christmas. It was cold. Mehdi Forootan sat in the back seat of an undercover police car in front of his house in Tehran, Iran. He was barely awake. An officer pointed a camcorder at him.

  • Christian nurse in Pakistan boldly opts to report videotaped rape

    A Christian nurse here filed a police report on Saturday (Sept. 3) alleging she was raped by a Muslim colleague who filmed the act in an attempt to blackmail her into renouncing her faith and marrying him, she and hospital sources told Compass.

  • UN called to investigate North Korea human rights abuses by 40 human rights groups

    Human rights organisations are campaigning for the United Nations to launch an investigation into crimes against humanity in North Korea.