Kenya

After enduring tremendous losses at the hand of religious persecution, three Chrisitan families in Kenya received aid from an Irish Christian Charity and an Irish church to help get them back on their feet.

An Al Qaeda militant group called Al-Shabaab is demanding Christians leave three counties in Northeastern Kenya: Garissa, Wajir and Mandera.

Three Chrisitan school teachers were killed in northeastern Kenya.

Sudan’s new minister of religious affairs last week attended a long-persecuted church’s Christmas service.

At least nine Christians have been killed for not being able to recite the Islamic creed. Their deaths are believed to be at the hands of Islamic militants in Kenya.

Suspected members of Somali Islamic extremist group Al Shabaab intercepted a bus in northern Kenya on Friday (Dec. 6), separated out those who were not local ethnic Somali Muslims and executed them, sources said.

Having moved three times since suspected Muslim extremists burned down their house in northeastern Kenya in March, a Christian mother of eight has a hard time explaining the loss of normal life to her children.

The 8-year-old boy didn’t realize that telling his Muslim relatives how much he enjoyed a church choir would cause them to attack his family.

In a show of solidarity, a group of Muslims warned a group of 20 construction workers – mostly Christians – about an impending attack by a jihadist fundamentalist group in Kutulo, Kenya.

The Somali pastor of an underground church in Kenya near the Somali border suffered a broken thigh bone and other injuries after Muslim extremists beat him with wooden clubs on Friday night (March 8), sources said.