Nigeria’s vice president backs Islamic law
August 17, 2000
SOKOTO, Nigeria — In what appears to be a major government shift from opposition to the implementation of sharia, the Islamic legal system, in some
Former Muslim granted religious asylum
August 10, 2000
LOS ANGELES — Officials of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) confirmed from Yemen that former Muslim Mohammed Omer Haji and his family
China releases most famous church prisoner
August 10, 2000
LONDON — China’s most famous house church prisoner, Mr. Xu Yongze, is free. The 58-year-old founder of the Born Again movement was released May 16,
Oldest black denomination elects femail
August 10, 2000
CINCINNATI, Ohio — The African Methodist Episcopal Church, the oldest black denomination in the U.S., elected its first female bishop July 11. Vashti McKenzie was
World Changers meet at Shocco
August 10, 2000
A team of 90 World Changers met at Shocco Springs recently to train college students and those recently graduated from college to be crew leaders
23 Christians massacred in Indonesia
August 10, 2000
JAKARTA, Indonesia — Twenty-three Christians were massacred in Indonesia as they fled from their village in late July and early August, The Hindustan Times of
780 said killed in Uganda mass suicide
August 3, 2000
NAIROBI, Kenya — Ugandan officials have placed the final death toll from a Ugandan religious sect’s mass suicide and murder earlier this year at 780,
Death sentence issued following conversion
August 3, 2000
LAOS — Christians in Laos continue to suffer persecution from a government crackdown on believers, and they cannot visit friends or travel freely because the
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