1. Churches burned, people beheaded in Mozambique's escalating ...
Jul 23, 2020 · A Catholic bishop has deplored the world's indifference to escalating extremist violence in northern Mozambique, where multiple churches ...
A Catholic bishop has deplored the world’s indifference to escalating extremist violence in northern Mozambique, where multiple churches have been burnt, people beheaded, young girls kidnapped, and hundreds of thousands of people displaced by the violence.
2. Christians in Africa face worrying rise in killings, persecution ... - Fox News
Apr 14, 2024 · "(An) estimated 500-600 Christians are believed to have been hacked to death for professing to be Christians in Nigeria, covering January to the ...
According to one group Christians are being persecuted, killed and displaced in 28 of Africa’s 54 countries. Nigeria is one country that has seen a massive rise in attacks against the faithful.
3. Churches burned in Niger - Baptist World Alliance
At least 68 churches, two of which were Baptist, have been burned in the West African country of Niger.
4. Eight churches set ablaze in Pakistan's Punjab province after ...
Aug 16, 2023 · The National Commission for Human Rights said the number of churches burnt “has risen to eight,” in an update on Wednesday, calling the ...
A crowd vandalized eight churches and several homes following accusations of blasphemy against Islam in Pakistan’s most populated province of Punjab on Wednesday, according to government authorities and residents, stoking tensions between local Muslim and minority Christian communities.
5. Ethiopia: At least 25 orthodox churches burned down over from ...
More than 25 churches have been burned down in the south part of Ethiopian area of Ethiopian Somali region, Oromia region and south nation and nationality ...
Ethiopia: More than 25 orthodox churches burned, 100 killed the past one year August 2018/2019 year Today, most Ethiopians Christians are Orthodox Christian or Protestant, and there is still a second majority number […]
6. Evangelical Church set on fire by Rapid Support Forces in Wad Madani
Jan 15, 2024 · A church in Wad Madani, Gezira State, Sudan, was set on fire and partially destroyed by members of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) on 12 ...
CSW is a human rights organisation specialising in freedom of religion or belief, and as Christians we stand with all those facing injustice because of their religion or belief.
7. Expert says persecution refines Christianity 'like gold in a fire' | Crux
Feb 9, 2023 · One estimate we collated indicated that over 7,600 Christians were killed in just 18 months in Nigeria, Africa's hotspot of Christian ...
Sub-Saharan Africa’s Christian population will more than double, growing from about half a billion people in 2010 to more than a billion in 2050.
8. In South Africa, fire deaths shine a light on immigrant churches in ...
Sep 25, 2023 · In South Africa, fire deaths shine a light on immigrant churches in 'hijacked' slum buildings” ... Seventy-six people burned to death when a ...
Seventy-six people burned to death when a horrific fire tore through an illegally âhijackedâ slum building in Johannesburg, South Africaâs, inner city. That many of the deceased and injured are undocumented African foreigners living on South African's margins has shone a spotlight on âslumâ churches run under the table by undocumented immigrants. âWe have lost...
9. Black Church Burnings - PBS
In 1996, over 160 black churches burned across the nation. Many of them were in poor, rural areas. This was particularly devastating, as rural black ...
As if to reflect and extend the tide of confusion, bitterness, and hopelessness in black America, a wave of arson destroyed hundreds of black churches; and then corruption and cynicism dispersed the ashes.
10. Churches burned and children 'seized' as militants target Christians
Mar 8, 2024 · At least 80,000 mainly Christians have been driven from their homes, Mozambique's army has suffered its bloodiest day in three years, a town and ...
At least 80,000 people have been driven from their homes as ‘a massive escalation in insurgent violence’ returns to the Cabo Delgado region
11. The Fire Last Time: The 1990s wave of 145 church burnings — Map
Jul 3, 2015 · The latest wave of church fires inspired a question: What about the last time? Here's where 145 African-Americans churches were torched in ...
The latest wave of church fires inspired a question: What about the last time? Here's where 145 African-Americans churches were torched in the last big wave of church fires in the 1990s. We map them.
12. Why are Ethiopia's churches under attack? - New African Magazine
Oct 9, 2019 · “However, there have been at least 15 churches that were attacked, three of which were completely burned down.” Unique role of EOTC. About half ...
A spate of church burnings has raised the religious and political temperature in Ethiopia. What or who is behind this?
13. AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Churches burned and priests killed in the Somali region
Aug 8, 2018 · The Ethiopian Orthodox Church has paid a high price due to the spiral of violence: according to information by local media, at least seven ...
Addis Ababa (Agenzia Fides) - Patriarch Matthias I and the Holy Synod of the Tewahedo Orthodox Churc
14. Pakistan: Mob burns churches over blasphemy claims - BBC
Aug 17, 2023 · Thousands of Muslims in a city in Pakistan have set fire to at least four churches and vandalised the homes of Christians over claims that ...
Thousands took to the streets over accusations that two Christian men had desecrated the Quran.
15. Half of all church fires in past 20 years were arsons - Pew Research Center
Oct 26, 2015 · Of the 4705 reported fire incidents at houses of worship between 1996 and 2015, 2378, or 51%, have been ruled intentional.
Of the 4,705 reported fire incidents at houses of worship between 1996 and 2015, 2,378, or 51%, have been ruled intentional.
16. Black Church Burning | Online Only - N+1
Feb 2, 2017 · Thirty-six black churches in Mississippi burned during the Freedom Summer of 1964, a campaign to register black voters in Mississippi.
Thirty-six black churches in Mississippi burned during the Freedom Summer of 1964, a campaign to register black voters in Mississippi. That’s twelve churches every month, three every week, and one every three days. Any black person visiting a church for worship, voter registration, or other services knew they might die in a blaze.
17. Bibles Burned Outside US Church on Easter Sunday - Barnabas Aid
Mar 31, 2024 · In 2023 alone there were at least 436 attacks on churches – more than double the number reported in 2022. These included 315 instances of ...
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18. Burning church in Kenya's Laikipia county in 2021? No, photo snapped ...
Sep 28, 2021 · Kenya Assemblies Of God (KAG) Church reduced into ashes in Ol Moran, Laikipia County by bandits,” reads a caption of a photo posted on Facebook ...
“BREAKING NEWS!!! Kenya Assemblies Of God (KAG) Church reduced into ashes in Ol Moran, Laikipia County by bandits,” reads a caption of a photo posted on Fac...
19. World Silent As ISIS Kills African Christians, Burns Churches - MEMRI
Jun 16, 2023 · In an attack on December 30, 2021, ISIS fighters burned a church and other "possessions of Christian unbelievers," including houses and a ...
MEMRI's detailed new report on ISIS in Africa's targeting of Christians is grim, if essential reading, done with MEMRI's characteristic comprehensiveness.
20. C&MA Church in Guinea is Burned - Persecution Grows in West African ...
Apr 1, 2020 · The Protestant Evangelical C&MA Church of Dorata (N'zérékoré), reputed to be one of the largest in Guinea, was destroyed by fire the evening of ...
In addition to the pandemic that everyone is experiencing, Guinea and other West African countries have faced persecution. The Protestant Evangelical C&MA Church of Dorata…
21. Now Processed: The Burned Churches Project Records
Jul 26, 2021 · The burning of Black churches happened at an alarming rate following the Civil War and throughout the Civil Rights Movement. Reports by the U.S. ...
In June 1996, the Rev. Dr. Mac Charles Jones led 38 pastors to Washington DC. These pastors had all served church buildings that were burned by white supremacists. For two days, the pastors met with the President of the United States, the attorney general, and members of Congress to share how the fires impacted their church communities and the racism they experienced in the aftermath of the arson.
22. [PDF] Burning of African American Churches in Mississippi and Perceptions of ...
National Church Arson Task Force, p. 7. 1. Page 8. Missionary Baptist Church was put out before it did any ...
23. Third church in four months burnt down in N. Tanzania
May 5, 2016 · Another church in Tanzania's extreme north-west corner was burned to the ground on 2 May in a suspected arson attack.
Another church in Tanzania’s extreme north-west corner was burned to the ground on 2 May in a suspected arson attack. No group has claimed responsibility for the fire that destroyed the Roman Catholic church in Nyarwele, in the Kagera region which borders Uganda, Burundi and Rwanda. It is the third […]
