Police arrest 34 gathered for prayer, fellowship
June 19, 2008
KEREN, Eritrea — Eritrean security police arrested 34 Christian evangelicals gathered for prayer and fellowship in a local home in Keren May 28. The raid
Algerian charged with faith ‘without license’
June 5, 2008
TIARET, Algeria — An Algerian public prosecutor has demanded a three-year sentence for a convert to Christianity in western Algeria for practicing her faith "without
Fires heighten Ethiopia food crisis
June 5, 2008
Southern Baptists are helping families in southern Ethiopia whose homes, livestock and food supplies were destroyed in late April by wildfires that raged across two
Islamists burn churches to protest girls’ rescue
May 29, 2008
NINGI, Nigeria — Islamists under the auspices of a paramilitary force destroyed six churches to protest a police rescue of two teenage Christian girls kidnapped
Christians charged, threatened for sharing faith
May 29, 2008
TIARET, Algeria — Algerian authorities have charged six Christians with distributing illegal religious material after detaining them as they left a prayer meeting in a
U.S. overseas food aid program comes under scrutiny for policies on spending
May 22, 2008
At about 10:30 each morning, some 800 children break from their school studies and line up for a midmorning meal of porridge. Brighton Mtikomola, the
Two Sudanese Baptist conventions reunite after long civil war split
May 1, 2008
The Sudan Interior Church North and Sudan Interior Church South have reunited to form one convention. First constituted in 1963, the Sudan Interior Church (SIC)
Algerian Christian sentenced for ‘proselytism’
April 24, 2008
TIARET, Algeria — An Algerian Christian was handed a two-year suspended sentence for "proselytism" April 9 amid an ongoing government crackdown on 26 of Algeria’s
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