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JUBA, South Sudan. Security agents in Sudan’s South Darfur state have closed down the Nyala offices of the Sudan Council of Churches (SCC) and relief group Sudan Aid, sources said. Agents from the Sudanese National Intelligence and Security Service (NISS) arrived at the organizations’ compound in Nyala at 8 a.m. on April 22, ordered SCC [...]

CAIRO — A year after an attack by ultraconservative Muslims raised the spectre of a wave of religious strife in Egypt, the Christian churches in Cairo’s Imbaba district have been repaired, with sturdy wooden rafters, fresh paint and portraits of the Virgin Mary and Jesus ready to be hung anew. But the deep wounds from [...]

Police said that last year’s suicide bombing of a Solo church was funded by hacking into a multi-level marketing website that focused on online investment. Some of the stolen funds were used for paramilitary training in Sulawesi, police said. “Hacking was done by the suspects we have arrested, namely Umar, alias Udin,” said a police [...]

ABUJA. At least two churches were attacked by suspected Islamic militants in northern Nigeria in recent days, an evangelist said Saturday, May 12, following several other incidents that killed some 20 Christians. “As I returned from an evangelistic tour in neighboring Niger, I just found out that an [Evangelical Church of West Africa] ECWA [congregation] [...]