“Radicals” on the Muslim-majority island of Zanzibar recently targeted two churches for persecution, through legal means and otherwise. They drove Pastor Philemon, a father of five, into hiding and took over his New Covenant Church’s worship hall by getting the landlord to rent it to them before the church’s lease ended. Once a congregation of 100, members now account for … [Read more...]
Tanzania: Muslims Burn Church, Beat Converts to Christianity
Around 2 a.m. on January 20, a church building in a Muslim-majority area of Tanzania was set on fire. Before that, the pastor of the church had been repeatedly threatened. The church building was in in Mashewa, in the Muheza district of Tanga Region, which is overwhelmingly Muslim. Weeks earlier, also in the same region, “a young woman from a Muslim background who had … [Read more...]
Muslims Behead Another Christian Pastor
Gatestone Institute A Christian pastor was recently slaughtered in the Muslim-majority African nation of Tanzania. While butchering Christian minorities is becoming increasingly common in that part of the Muslim world, the context for this latest slaughter is somewhat different than the usual forms of Christian persecution under Islam—such as allegations of “blaspheming” the … [Read more...]