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1. ISIS Moves Into Africa, Preventing Churches From Fighting Ebola

In North Kivu, an eastern province of Congo, church leaders are stepping up their fight to halt the advance of the 40-month-old Ebola epidemic, even as the Islamic State group increasingly makes its presence ...

Created on 23 May 2019

2. Officials Try to Dispel Fears of New ID Labeled 'Mark of the Beast'

In Kenyan churches, the Antichrist is a frequent sermon subject, one that often serves to feed controversial end-time conspiracy theories. Those fears of the apocalyptic figure, a seven-headed beast that ...

Created on 08 April 2019

3. Controversy Erupts After Prophetic Pastor Claims He Resurrected a Man

When South African Pastor Alph Lukau claimed to have resurrected a dead man recently, the biblical story of Lazarus may have echoed in the minds of his congregation. But the action that day (Feb. 24) by ...

Created on 06 March 2019

4. How This Pentecostal Pastor's Son Just Earned the Highest Accolade in the World

At a tender age, Denis Mukwege accompanied his father, a Pentecostal church pastor, as he moved around the villages of Congo's South Kivu Province praying for sick parishioners. Those experiences inspired ...

Created on 19 October 2018

5. Should Christians Be Cremated?

Kenneth Matiba, a popular politician in Kenya who died last week, will be cremated this week — a plan that has set off a debate in this mostly Christian country, where many view the practice as contrary ...

Created on 24 April 2018

6. Government Shutters More Than 700 Churches—Most of Them Pentecostal—And Arrests Pastors

 A move by Rwanda to shut down more than 700 churches in its capital city, allegedly for building safety, hygiene and noise violations, is prompting accusations that the government of President Paul Kagame ...

Created on 08 March 2018

7. Could This Biblical Ritual Kill You?

It's a rite that dates to the time of Jesus, who was dunked in the River Jordan by John the Baptist. But Christians in East Africa are now taking stock of their faith's central rite after one such ritual ...

Created on 25 July 2017

8. Why Is This Pentecostal Megachurch Pastor Burning Bibles?

A Pentecostal pastor in Uganda's capital has reportedly torched thousands of Bibles because they were "fake" and "demonic." Pastor Aloysius Bugingo of the House of Prayer Ministries in Kampala ordered ...

Created on 28 April 2017

9. Controversial American Pastor Banned From Entering South Africa

Arizona pastor Steven Anderson has been barred from entering South Africa over hate speech concerns. Anderson, pastor of the Faithful Word Baptist Church in Tempe, Arizona, was due to visit the country ...

Created on 14 September 2016

10. Olympic Marathon Winner: My Faith Helped Me Win

After striking gold at the Rio Olympics, marathon runner Jemima Sumgong underlined how her faith had helped her win the 26.2-mile run. "Before the start of the race, I asked God to help me to get good ...

Created on 15 August 2016

11. Charismatic Churches and Self-Proclaimed Miracle-Working Prophets Under Scrutiny

Led by charismatic preachers and self-proclaimed prophets, African churches are swelling with promises of miracle healings, signs and wonders. But in recent months, governments across the continent are ...

Created on 19 February 2016

12. Governments Cracking Down on Charismatic Churches Professing 'Miracle Cures'

Led by charismatic preachers and self-proclaimed prophets, African churches are swelling with promises of miracle healings, signs and wonders. But in recent months, governments across the continent are ...

Created on 17 February 2016

13. This Nation Banned Christmas and New Year's for One Good Reason

The government of Sierra Leone banned public Christmas and New Year's celebrations because they may exacerbate efforts to eradicate the Ebola virus. President Ernest Bai Koroma said that despite immense ...

Created on 16 December 2014

14. Beyond ISIS, Boko Haram Taking Over Nigerian Churches

Five months after Boko Haram abducted more than 200 schoolgirls in Nigeria's Borno State, the Islamic extremist group has begun occupying churches in the country's northeastern region, church officials ...

Created on 02 September 2014

15. Christians Rally Around Pregnant Sudanese Doctor Condemned to Death for Calling Jesus Lord

Sudanese Christians have condemned the sentencing of a Christian woman to death by hanging after she married a Christian man. Meriam Yehya Ibrahim, 27, refused to recant her Christian faith as ordered ...

Created on 19 May 2014

16. 5 Years Later, Boko Haram Still Allowed to Openly Murder Christians

For five years, bombs and bullets from Nigeria’s Islamist group Boko Haram have ripped through churches and their members, raising concerns over the security of Christians in majority Muslim regions of ...

Created on 21 March 2014

17. Controversial Anti-Gay Law Breeds Unity Among Nigeria's Christians, Muslim Leaders

Christian and Muslim leaders in Nigeria welcomed a controversial law that bans same-sex marriages and imposes a 14-year jail term for homosexual relations. On Monday President Goodluck Jonathan signed ...

Created on 17 January 2014

18. Christians in Libya Cast Anxious Eye at Religious Freedom

Church leaders in Libya remain hopeful that Christians in the mostly Muslim country will be allowed to practice their faith, even as the country appears to be moving towards Shariah law. In December, Libya’s ...

Created on 13 January 2014

19. Pentecostal Pastors Pushing Paid Prayer, Burning HIV Drugs

At prayer healing services in some Pentecostal churches, pastors invite people infected with HIV to come forward for a public healing, after which they burn the person’s anti-retroviral medications and ...

Created on 05 December 2013

20. Kenyan Pastors Ask for AK-47s Amid Radical Muslim Persecution

As attacks on Christians mount in Kenya’s coastal region, some evangelical pastors in the Mombasa area may no longer be willing to turn the other cheek. Worried about attacks against their churches and ...

Created on 01 November 2013