Nigerian court condemns Islamic militant to death

November 2, 2006

YOLA, Nigeria — A militant Islamic leader who spearheaded religious conflict that engulfed northern Nigeria in 1984 has been sentenced to death by a high

Egyptian Christian escapes Muslim abductors

October 26, 2006

CAIRO, Egypt — An Egyptian Christian teenager escaped her Muslim kidnappers the first week in October hours after they had drugged her on a public

Arab Christians brave Sahara’s perils for gospel

October 26, 2006

How’s this for a missions trip: Three months on camels in the scorching Sahara. No contact with family members. Beaten with metal rods. Kidnapped by

Nigerian believers attacked by mobs; 2,000 left homeless

October 12, 2006

Jummai opened her tailor’s shop on the morning of Sept. 18 without any premonition that a crisis awaited her. Equally unsuspecting were her fellow Christians,

Caring for the street kids of Dakar wins hearts in Senegal

October 12, 2006

It’s a tough life for a kid. You wake in the darkness before dawn and roll off a wooden pallet — one of the “beds”

Christians in South Africa protest ‘gay marriage’

October 5, 2006

PRETORIA, South Africa — Thousands of Christians marched in South African cities Sept. 16, urging the government not to pass a bill that would legalize

Eritrea orders Protestant assets confiscated

September 28, 2006

ASMARA, Eritrea — The Eritrean government demanded this September that the Kale Hiwot Church surrender all its property and physical assets to the government. The