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Tanzania
On Tanzania’s semi-autonomous island of Zanzibar, Christians live in a climate of fear. It’s a place where a young man flees the island to escape death threats from his Muslim family, and a Christian who accidentally burned pages of the Quran opts ....
Muslim extremists on Saturday (July 30) burned down a church building on Zanzibar island off the coast of Tanzania, church leaders said, just three days after another congregation’s facility on the island was reduced to ashes. In Fuoni on the ....
Influential Muslims on this East African island have begun building what appears to be a hotel on a 100-year-old burial site owned by an Anglican church, Christian leaders said. Church leaders with ownership papers for the land told Compass they ....
Radical Islamists are suspected in the demolition of two church buildings on Tanzania’s semi-autonomous island of Zanzibar on Sunday (Nov. 21), as members of the congregations have since received death threats from Muslims. The church buildings ....
Evangelist Arrested in Zanzibar    Published in 2010
Christian university students on the Tanzanian island of Zanzibar, a predominantly Muslim area off the coast of East Africa, have been denied the right to worship, while on another part of the isle a Christian leader has been jailed. Sources said ....
A Tanzanian court yesterday acquitted two evangelists of “illegal preaching.” After 10 months of hearings, a Kariakoo area court in Dar es Salaam closed the case against Anglican Christians Eleutery Kobelo and Cecil Simbaulanga, who were arrested ....
On an island off the coast of East Africa where the local government limits the ability of Christians to obtain land, officials in one town have colluded with area Muslims to erect a mosque in place of a planned church building. On the Tanzanian ....
Two Christian evangelists in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, have been arrested after Muslims invited them to debate religion but instead called in security agents who charged the evangelists with illegal preaching.   Anglican evangelists Eleutery ....
Two church buildings were razed Sunday night (June 28) on the Tanzanian island of Zanzibar after worship services.Suspected radical Muslims set the church buildings on fire on the outskirts of Unguja Township, on the island off the coast of East ....
NAIROBI, Kenya, June 30 (Compass Direct News) – Two church buildings were razed Sunday night (June 28) on the Tanzanian island of Zanzibar after worship services. Suspected radical Muslims set the church buildings on fire on the outskirts of Unguja ....
A pastor in Zanzibar City said his church is without a worship place after government officials, at the instigation of radical Islamists, evicted the congregation from their rented building on Tanzania’s Zanzibar Island off the coast of East Africa. ....
NAIROBI, Kenya, June 22 (Compass Direct News) – A pastor in Zanzibar City said his church is without a worship place after government officials, at the instigation of radical Islamists, evicted the congregation from their rented building on ....
Sunday worship in a house church near Zanzibar City, on a Tanzanian island off the coast of East Africa, did not take place for the third week running on Sunday (May 24) after Muslim extremists expelled worshippers from their rented ....
NAIROBI, Kenya, May 26 (Compass Direct News) – Sunday worship in a house church near Zanzibar City, on a Tanzanian island off the coast of East Africa, did not take place for the third week running on Sunday (May 24) after Muslim extremists expelled ....
ZANZIBAR, Tanzania, Dec. 5 (Compass Direct News) – Christians on the predominantly Muslim islands of Pemba and the Comoros archipelago are beaten, detained and banished for their faith, according to church leaders who travel regularly to the Indian ....
October 29 (Compass) -- Police on the small, predominately Muslim island of Zanzibar off the coast of Tanzania have stepped up investigations and arrested three suspects after two Catholic churches were destroyed and a small Protestant church was ....
Churches on Guard Following Attacks    Published in 2004
April 5 (Compass) — Churchgoers on the tiny, Muslim dominated island of Zanzibar off the coast of Tanzania are aware of a growing threat by Muslim extremists suspected of carrying out recent attacks against church facilities. “There are some people ....
«We Don’t Need a Christian Gospel!»    Published in 2001
(Compass) - The Rev. Z* often ministers in a Muslim area near Arusha, where there is no Christian church and where the people will not allow a church to be established. \"It is hard to witness where I come from,\" he said. \"People put their hands ....
Calm After the Storm    Published in 2001
(Compass) - Churches continue to pray for peace, tolerance and unity in Tanzania in an atmosphere of uneasy calm following violent demonstrations in late August sparked by the arrest and jailing of a radical Muslim preacher. Khamis Dibagula - a ....
(Compass) - \"We have to hide new converts - either that or they must remain secret believers,\" said the Rev. F*, referring to Muslims who have converted to Christianity. Despite having a Christian president and a largely Christian civil service, ....
Zanzibar - An Unofficial Islamic State    Published in 2001
(Compass) - \"It is as if Tanzania is two different worlds,\" said a church leader who was once a fundamentalist Muslim. \"On the mainland, churches are free to worship and Christians are allowed to share their faith. Here, they want to eradicate ....
Zanzibar - No Place To Worship    Published in 2001
(Compass) - According to the authorities, people on this Tanzanian island are free to follow their faith without restriction. Yet five church leaders from different denominations recently painted a picture of ongoing harassment, bureaucratic ....
Two Prisoners Released on Parole    Published in 2000
(Compass) - Two young men jailed in the Comoros Islands last October for possession of the Jesus film have both been conditionally released, and one has since fled the country. Taki Islam, 22, was granted a \"provisional\" release from prison on ....
 
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