Religious freedom activists have urged members of the U.S. Congress to encourage the Biden administration to designate Nigeria as a "Country of Particular Concern" after it removed the designation in the last two years.
What does it really mean to love God? We often prioritize our love for Jesus yet he is just one of three persons of the Trinity. Loving is not just knowing about someone, it is about acting on our affections towards them. For the follower of Jesus it is about demonstrating our love through obedience to God's revealed will. We do well to remember that in these challenging times.
We have longings and desires, wishes and wants. But in this article Christians are warned not to confuse those desires with the hope that we have in the promises of God.
Western expressions of our faith have dichotomized church and missions as different things. This should never be so. We can learn from the African Church that all believers carry a responsibility for missions-type of activities.
We can all too flippantly use the term "God willing", while not really appreciating what God's will might be. He has made some of his will plain, but there is much about the future we can not know. Yet true believers trust that it will be for good.
Suspected Fulani herdsmen and other terrorists on Friday (Nov. 24) attacked villages in Taraba state, Nigeria, killing at least 10 Christians, sources said.
Two Christians in eastern Uganda were hospitalized after hardline Muslims beat them for their presentation at a religious dialogue, one of the victims said.
Armed assailants in Kaduna state, Nigeria on Friday (Nov. 17) killed a pastor and kidnapped his wife, sources said.
A pastor kidnapped on Saturday (Nov. 11) in Nigeria’s central state of Kogi was killed on Tuesday (Nov. 14) after church members paid a ransom for his release, sources said.
A woman in eastern Uganda has been hospitalized with serious burns after her Muslim husband discovered she had converted to Christianity and set her on fire, area sources said.
At least two Christian buildings were bombed last week amid fighting between rival military factions in Sudan.
Iran’s Revolutionary Court sentenced a pregnant Christian woman to 16 years in prison on Saturday (March 8) and also handed harsh punishments to two other converts from Islam, a rights group reported.
