AFRICA – Religious persecution focus shifts to Africa
The Catholic Register | Michael Swan | June 25, 2020 Aid to the Church in Need and its 330,000 donors world-wide are responding to the changing world of religious persecution.…
CAMEROON – Cameroon admits soldiers, ‘vigilantes’ killed 10 kids, 3 women in massacre
Christian Post | Samuel Smith | April 29, 2020 Authorities in Cameroon have admitted that soldiers were involved in the killing of three women and 10 children in a mid-February…
NIGERIA – Boko Haram/ISWAP recruiting in Lake Chad region, says MNJTF
The Guardian | Njadvara Musa, Maiduguri | April 28, 2020 The Multinational Joint Task Force (MNJTF) has raised the alarm on Boko Haram/Islamic State’s West Africa Province (ISWAP) terrorists’ recruitment…
RELEASE – Save the Persecuted Christians Calls for the Appointment of a U.S. Presidential Special Envoy to Nigeria and the Lake Chad Region
Save the Persecuted Christians | March 18, 2020 Coalition Partner, International Committee on Nigeria, Launches #SilentSlaughter Campaign WASHINGTON—Save the Persecuted Christians (STPC) joined the International Committee on Nigeria (ICON) at…
AFRICA – Africa’s Young Christian Communities Are Now in Islamic-Extremist Crosshairs
Hudson Institute | Nina Shea | Jan. 11, 2020 An ongoing Islamic extremist project to exterminate Christians in sub-Saharan Africa is even more brutal and more consequential for the Church…
USA – Pentagon examining a reduction of the US footprint in West Africa
Military Times | Diana Stancy Correll The Pentagon is considering significantly cutting back its U.S. presence in West Africa, according to a new report. U.S. troops in Africa have focused…
USA/WEST AFRICA – Pentagon Eyes Africa Drawdown as First Step in Global Troop Shift
New York Times | Helene Cooper, Thomas Gibbons-Neff, Charlie Savage and Eric Schmitt | Dec. 24, 2020 The deliberations stem from a push to reduce missions battling distant terrorist groups,…
AFRICA – As Christianity grows in Africa, anti-Christian persecution rises
Crux | Crux Staff | Dec. 11, 2019 YAOUNDÉ, Cameroon - According to a new Pew Research Center report, there are already more Christians in Africa than any other continent.…
CAMEROON – Cameroonian Bible Translator Brutally Murdered, Wife’s Arm Chopped Off in Machete Attack
CBN | Will Maule, Faithwire | Aug. 31, 2019 A Bible translator in Cameroon has been killed in a brutal machete attack. Angus Abraham Fung was among seven people who…
RELEASE – Save the Persecuted Christians: Murder of Bible Translator in Cameroon Is Further Evidence of Need for U.S. Special Envoy in That Region
***STATEMENT*** August 29, 2019 | For Immediate Release Group Also Calls on Law Firm Squire Patton Boggs to Cease Representation of Cameroon and Others That Commit Atrocious Religious Liberty Violations…
CAMEROON – Militants cut off the ears of women in horrific attack on Christian village
Aug. 8, 2019 | Christianity Today Women from a Christian village in Cameroon recover after having their ears chopped off by members of Boko Haram(Photo: Open Doors) The barbarism of…
CAR – 77-year-old French-Spanish nun beheaded in Central African Republic
Canadian Press | May 22,2019 BANGUI, Central African Republic — A 77-year-old French-Spanish nun who taught impoverished women and girls in volatile Central African Republic has been decapitated, local authorities…
CAMEROON – Believers Trapped as Cameroon Wages War on Two Fronts
Mission Network News | Nov. 19, 2018 Cameroon (MNN) — The stakes are high and believers are running out of places to go as Cameroon wages war on two fronts.…
CAMEROON – 79 Kidnapped Christian School Students Freed in Cameroon
CBN News | Nov. 7, 2018 The 79 school children kidnapped by unidentified gunmen from a school in Cameroon have been released, but two of the three staff members abducted…
CAMEROON – U.S. missionary shot and killed in front of wife and son amid escalating Cameroon crisis
Washington Post | Oct. 30, 2018 An American citizen was shot and killed in Cameroon on Tuesday, said Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb and a church in the state. In a…
CAMEROON – Charles Wesco: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know
HEAVY | Oct. 30, 2018 Charles Trumann Wesco was an American missionary who arrived in the West African nation of Cameroon on October 18, along with his wife and their…