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Family of 17-Year-Old Girl Abuses Her for Leaving Islam
Published in 2010
NAIROBI, Kenya, June 15
(CDN) —
The Muslim parents of a 17-year-old Somali girl who converted to Christianity severely beat her for leaving Islam and have regularly shackled her to a tree at their home for more than a month, Christian sources said. Nurta Mohamed Farah of Bardher, ....
Al Shabaab Militants Execute Christian Leader
Published in 2010
NAIROBI, Kenya, May 5
(CDN) —
Islamic militants yesterday killed another leader of the underground church movement in Somalia, sources said. Before he was fatally shot on Tuesday (May 4) in Xarardheere, about 60 kilometers (37 miles) from Jowhar, 57-year-old Yusuf Ali ....
Islamic Extremists in Somalia Kill Church Leader, Torch Home
Published in 2010
NAIROBI, Kenya, March 24
(CDN) —
Islamic militants in Somalia tracked down an underground church leader who had previously escaped a kidnapping attempt and killed him last week, Christian sources said. Islamic extremist al Shabaab rebels shot Madobe Abdi to death on March ....
Islamic Militants Murder Christian Leader
Published in 2010
NAIROBI, Kenya, January 26
(CDN) —
Islamic extremists shot the leader of an underground church to death outside the capital city of Somalia this month and have threatened to kill his wife, his tearful widow told Compass. Having learned that he had left Islam to become a ....
Compass Direct News’ Top 10 Stories of 2009
Published in 2010
LOS ANGELES, January 8
(CDN) —
The revelation that Islamic militants in Somalia sought out at least 15 Christians, including women and children, and killed them for their faith headed the list of Compass’s top 10 stories in 2009. Following the Somali militants’ ruthless bid to ....
Somali Christian Flees Refugee Camp Under Death Threat
Published in 2009
NAIROBI, Kenya, December 9
(CDN) —
Somali Christian Mohamud Muridi Saidi last month fled a refugee camp near Kenya’s border with Sudan after Muslims threatened to kill him. For Saidi, a father of four, the recent relocation of 13,000 refugees from the Dadaab refugee camp ....
Islamic Extremists Execute Young Convert
Published in 2009
NAIROBI, Kenya, November 23
(CDN) —
Islamic extremists controlling part of the Somali capital of Mogadishu this month executed a young Christian they accused of trying to convert a 15-year-old Muslim to Christianity. Members of the Islamic extremist group al Shabaab had taken ....
Christian in Somalia Who Refused to Wear Veil is Killed
Published in 2009
NAIROBI, Kenya, October 27
(CDN) —
Three masked members of a militant Islamist group in Somalia last week shot and killed a Somali Christian who declined to wear a veil as prescribed by Muslim custom, according to a Christian source in Somalia. Members of the comparatively ....
Imprisoned Christian in Somaliland on Hunger Strike
Published in 2009
NAIROBI, Kenya, October 16
(CDN) —
A convert from Islam in Somalia’s self-declared state of Somaliland has staged a hunger strike to protest his transfer to a harsh prison in a remote part of the country. Osman Nour Hassan was arrested on Aug. 3 for allegedly providing ....
Islamic Extremists Kill Another Church Leader
Published in 2009
NAIROBI, Kenya, October 1
(CDN) —
Islamic militants in Somalia this week killed a woman who led an underground Christian movement in the war-torn country. Sources told Compass that a leader of Islamic extremist al Shabaab militia in Lower Juba identified only as Sheikh Arbow ....
Muslim Militants Slay Long-Time Christian in Somalia
Published in 2009
NAIROBI, Kenya, September 18
(CDN) —
The faith journey of a long-time underground Christian in Somalia ended in tragedy this week when Islamic militants controlling a security checkpoint killed him after finding Bibles in his possession. Militants from the Muslim extremist al ....
Converts from Islam Jailed, Pursued in Somalia’s Breakaway Region
Published in 2009
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia, September 16
(CDN) —
A convert from Islam in Somalia’s self-declared state of Somaliland has been jailed for distributing Christian materials, and another is on the run from both family members and police upset over his new faith. Christian sources said Somaliland ....
Somali Christian Shot Dead near Kenya Border
Published in 2009
NAIROBI, Kenya, August 22
(CDN) —
Muslim extremists seeking evidence that a Somali man had converted from Islam to Christianity shot him dead Tuesday morning (Aug. 18) near the Somali border with Kenya, according to underground Christians in the war-torn nation. Al Shabaab ....
Convert from Islam Shot Dead
Published in 2009
NAIROBI, Kenya, July 20
(CDN) —
Muslim extremists early this morning killed a Christian convert in Mahadday Weyne, Somalia, 100 kilometers (62 miles) north of Mogadishu.Al Shabaab Islamist rebels shot Mohammed Sheikh Abdiraman to death at 7 a.m., eyewitnesses told Compass. They ....
Islamists in Somalia Behead Two Sons of Christian Leader
Published in 2009
NAIROBI, Kenya, July 1
(CDN) —
Islamic extremists have beheaded two young boys in Somalia because their Christian father refused to divulge information about a church leader, and the killers are searching Kenya’s refugee camps to do the same to the boys’ father. Before ....
Nuns Kidnapped in Kenya Released
Published in 2009
NAIROBI, Kenya, February 23
(CDN) —
Two nuns working in northeast Kenya who were kidnapped last November have been freed and arrived here from Mogadishu, Somalia on Thursday (Feb. 19), but they are still traumatized, sources told Compass. Caterina Giraudo, 67, and Maria Teresa ....
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Tanzania: Evangelist Arrested in Zanzibar
Egypt: Coptic Blogger Released from Prison
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Indonesia: Hundreds Injure Church Members in Bekasi
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