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A Kenyan loses wife, kids; Ethiopians lose worship venues.

A Muslim teacher who died shielding Christians after Islamic extremists attacked a bus in Kenya, has been posthumously honored for his act of courage.

Threats from hard-line Muslims and the rape of her 13-year-old daughter forced a Christian mother and her five children to flee their village in eastern Uganda last week, sources said.

Mangochi police officers Tuesday raided the same government premises that Muslim Jamaat community representatives had seized from the government a few weeks ago, report media sources. Malawi is among the smallest countries in Africa, with Christianity as the chosen religion practiced by the majority of residents. Mangochi is a landlocked country in southeast Africa that was formerly known as Nyasaland.

A sobering report has emerged out of eastern Uganda, where Muslim parents burned down their son's home and attempted to end his life after learning that he left Islam to follow Jesus Christ.

South Sudan local church officials confirmed a recently released United Nations report describing the horrors of Africa's civil war, including mass rapes as well as children and disabled people being burned alive, hanged or cut to pieces. The U.N. report is definitely reliable, stated the unnamed church sources to news agencies. The violent conflict produced shocking news stories of people being forced to eat human flesh and drink blood, the African Union revealed in October 2015.

Petr Jasek, a filmmaker and missionary from the Czech Republic has been imprisoned in Sudan since December of last year. His crime, according to Sudanese authorities, is filming the ongoing Christian persecution in the country.

Officials from the Pentagon have confirmed that the U.S. has carried out a successful strike operation against a known terrorist camp in Somalia. According to officials, the strike which involved the use of unmanned and manned aircrafts, killed at least 150 members of the al-Shabaab terrorist group.

Last week, the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee has passed a resolution calling on the U.S. State Department to declare the violence against Christians and other religious groups in the Middle East as genocide. However, as the number of organizations urging the government to come up with a proper label continue to rise, the deadline to call the situation as genocide is also getting nearer.

Days before the second year anniversary marking the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, investigators made a significant discovery in Mozambique. According to reports, authorities have found a metal fragment which they believe came from the missing plane.

Christian groups in Nigeria are urging other religious sects in the country to join their campaign against the radical Islamic group Boko Haram. The call to unite comes almost a month after the group attacked a village in northern Nigeria and killed at least 65 people.

Despite the brutal repercussions of being a Christian in northern Nigeria, Muslims are said to be converting to Christianity in droves. According to the new study, over 10,000 Christians have been killed in the this region within the past five years.

Hundreds of Nigerian women who were kidnapped and raped at the hands of the Islamic extremists group Boko Haram are often rejected and ostracized after they return to their communities, reveals a disturbing new study released this week.

A boy in Nigeria who was abandoned by his family after being accused of witchcraft has been rescued by an aid worker. The two-year-old boy was discovered wandering the streets and relying on food given to him by other people.

On Thursday, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev warned the deployment of foreign ground troops in the war-torn Syria could result in a "new world war". This threat comes after the collapse of the latest round of peace talks to end the long-running civil war in the country.

Wherever they may be in the world, Ash Wednesday should remind Christians around the world that they are sinners in need of a savior, and that their salvation comes at the sacrifice of God's Son.

In a pre-dawn raid on a predominantly Christian area in coastal Kenya on Sunday (Jan. 31), Islamic extremist Al Shabaab rebels killed at least four Christians, beheading one of them, area sources said.

Gunmen riding motorcycles raided the Nigerian village of Dalori near Maiduguri during Saturday night, killing 86 people and setting homes ablaze, officials said. Members of the radical Islamist group Boko Haram burned children alive as part of an assault, a survivor of the attack alleged. Dalori is near the largest camp for those displaced by the terror group's violence, and houses approximately 20,000 people.

Outrage is permeating Enugu State in southeastern Nigeria, following the shocking discovery of dead bodies buried in shallow graves within a church foundation, Monday evening.

A sobering report has emerged out of Mandera, Kenya, where a Muslim teacher who shielded Christian fellow passengers when their bus was attacked by Islamist militants has died in surgery to treat his injuries.

Suspected Islamic extremists kidnapped an elderly missionary couple in northern Burkina Faso on the same day al-Qaeda launched a deadly attack in the country's capital, Ouagadougou, killing 28 people, including a Christian orphanage director.

Security forces in Burkina Faso retook a hotel in the capital on Saturday a day after al Qaeda fighters seized it in an assault that killed two dozen people from at least 18 countries, marking a major escalation of Islamist militancy in West Africa.

Unknown "thugs" who wrote a jihadist slogan on a church building in the center of this city on the Algerian coast on Thursday night (Jan. 7) looted and damaged the property, sources said.

$1 million from the Tempelton Religion Trust went to investigating the Christian response in the face of global persecution.

Nine months experiencing a devastating terror attack resulting in the deaths of close to 150 Christian students, Garissa University College in Kenya has reopened, expressing hope that this time, "all will be well and peaceful."