+Q Salud has been conducting training and health care in the country for more than ten years. Now the NGO has reached an agreement with the local authorities to develop a program similar to the medical residency in Spain.

“Most Somali Christians are underground believers. We are a persecuted community”, explain the leaders of an online community of believers in the country.

An interview with Salah Chalah, President of the Eglise Protestante d’Algérie. “2020 was a very difficult year for us Protestants, who have been deprived of our places of worship - until today”.

The formation and scope of a distinctive spirituality. An article by Daewon Moon.

Despite lockdown restrictions in Ghana, Christian ministry Theovision International continues to mobilise students to plant churches in rural communities across the country.

African evangelicals perceive the impact of the pandemic differently, but agree on the slow arrival of the vaccine and the “circulation of misinformation”.

In a letter sent in December, three UN Human Rights Council special rapporteurs asked the government to stop the “intimidation and discriminatory treatment” of Protestants.

The father of four young children had been sentenced to five years in prison and fined 100,000 dinars. “That this story goes back three years and only now it’s resurfacing – it’s hard to digest”, says the church that supports his family.

From an historical perspective, Christianity is not a European religion. In fact, it was not even a primarily European religion until the end of the first millennium.

Islamic extremist groups have kidnapped, killed and executed Christians throughout the country. Many villages have been attacked and churches destroyed.

Radio and digital media platforms are particularly effective tools to reach the Amazigh community and to encourage the noteworthy Christian minority of local believers in their language.

Boko Haram has claimed responsibility for the abduction through an audio message. Gunmen on motorcycles attacked a state school in North West Nigeria.

Churches demand “permanent resources” as the humanitarian crisis overwhelms the local population.

Violence keeps escalating despite the pleas of evangelical leaders who denounce lack of effort by the Nigerian government to free church members.

The pastor had received threats from Muslims. He and his son were slain after visiting the Congo border for missionary work.

Evangelicals in the country call to pray for peace. “Attacks on innocent people based on religious and ethnic differences are not acceptable in the Word of God or Ethiopian culture”.

Three years prior to Cape Town 2010, the Lausanne Theology Working Group had been meeting. It had a core of about 12 members – men and women from every continent. Over the course of our meetings, some 60 people altogether took part in a series of international consultations

Sudan joins the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain, which already signed the 'Abraham Accords'. Palestinians say “it violates the Arab Peace Initiative”.

It is the worst incident of its kind anywhere in the world so far in 2020. Evangelicals in Fuerteventura work hard offering food and shelter as migrant crisis worsens. 

Several dead, and seven worship halls damaged. “A peaceful prayer walk seeking God’s help for our country, was suddenly met with undue force as Christians were beaten and shot at with guns by Muslim mobs”.

The population that identifies as non-religious has grown by about 10% in Morocco, a survey says. Disillusionment and a waning trust in religious leaders are among the main reasons.

A Christian who has worked in the Democratic Republic of the Congo with an international organisation says these kind of abuses are “a common practice in countries where there is impunity, and a rape and sexual exploitation culture”.

A request to reopen places of worship was recently rejected without a justification. The Algerian Protestant Church (EPA) invites Christians worldwide “to join us to pray for Algeria”.

“She was apparently killed by the Islamist terrorist organization JNIM", Swiss authorities said in a statement. Beatrice Stöckli had already been abducted and released in 2012.

The new ship of Mercy Ships will be able to host 800 volunteers to give free surgical care to 5,800 people every year in Africa and elsewhere.