Week of Prayer for International Missions

November 29, 2020

Here’s a preview of missionary stories highlighted in this year’s Week of Prayer for International Missions, set for Nov. 29–Dec. 6: Day 1 In the

In Nigeria, teenaged twin sisters Hassana and Hussaina Garba were kidnapped from their home

October 6, 2020

In Nigeria’s Katsina state, teenaged twin sisters Hassana and Hussaina Garba were kidnapped from their home beside the Evangelical Church Winning All worship building in

Religious freedom in Sudan improving, USCIRF report says

October 5, 2020

WASHINGTON — The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom reports that Sudan’s transitional government has, in the past year, improved religious freedom in that

Attacks continue on Nigerian Christians

September 18, 2020

KADUNA, Nigeria — Muslim Fulani herdsmen continue their attacks on Nigerian Christians, killing 10 on July 24 and another 37 in Kaduna state in the

Nigerian violence sparked by history, grudges, poverty and religion

September 8, 2020

While some religious freedom advocates characterize the violence in Nigeria in very black-and-white terms — nothing short of Muslim persecution of Christians — a Southern

Kenyan family who fled violence in Nairobi attacked again for faith

September 3, 2020

ISIOLO, Kenya — Muslim extremists beat a Christian woman unconscious in Isiolo, Kenya, and attacked her brother and sister in ongoing persecution of the family

Violence against Christians in Nigeria escalates yearly

September 1, 2020

With every passing year, the body count grows larger, and tales of violence — rapes, beheadings, mutilations, kidnappings, torching of homes and fields — become