(Press Release from the Outreach Foundation.) The Outreach Foundation announced today that Frank Dimmock will join Outreach’s mission staff on January 1, 2017, as an Africa mission specialist. For thirty-five years Frank served the church in Africa as a Presbyterian Church (USA) mission co-worker, focusing on ministries of health and development. More broadly, his central…
By Harriet Sherwood, The Guardian. Millions escaped countries such as Nigeria, Eritrea, Syria and Iraq in 2015, according to charity Religious persecution is on the rise in Africa and the Middle East, forcing millions of Christians to flee their homes for overcrowded refugee camps and the risks of smuggling routes to Europe, according to a…
By Mark Tooley, Juicy Ecumenism. Recently 14 United Methodist bishops in Africa, collectively representing 5 million United Methodists in Africa’s growing churches, spoke out remarkably on the topics of terrorism and marriage. Their words were very different from rhetoric typical of the long declining U.S. church. Speaking well before the recent Paris terror, the African…
By Emily Griffin, KWCH12 A missionary couple with Kansas ties is recovering in a south African hospital after they were attacked by a group of armed bandits this week. John and Gwenyth Haspels are second generation missionaries. Though both were raised primarily in Africa, the two met and attended school at Sterling College in Kansas and…
By Ronald S. Lauder WHY is the world silent while Christians are being slaughtered in the Middle East and Africa? In Europe and in the United States, we have witnessed demonstrations over the tragic deaths of Palestinians who have been used as human shields by Hamas, the terrorist organization that controls Gaza. The United Nations…
By Jeff Gissing Presbyterians in Africa have made some public statements that highlight significant differences of belief and practice between the Presbyterian Church (USA) and its global partners on basic issues of the Christian life, human sexuality and abortion. As a denomination, the PC (USA) has become increasingly open to and affirming of homosexual practice….
International Christian Concern reports that 125 Christians have been beaten and detained over the past week in Eritrea. ” Police arrested these church members from homes and workplaces during broad daylight and then marched them through town to the police station while beating them,” an investigator for Open Doors said. Among the 125 Christians, 45 men…
Christians are facing a new wave of persecution as Islamic extremism spreads across the African continent. From Mali and Nigeria in West Africa, to Tanzania and Kenya in the East, Christians are enduring continuous attacks. Read more about this story in Christian World News.