By: Morning Star News
Tuesday, 23 April 2013
Islamist militants in Somalia have killed the widow of a Christian who was slain for his faith in December, leaving the couple’s five children orphaned, sources said. Islamic extremist Al Shabaab rebels shot 42-year-old Fartun Omar to death on April 13 in Buulodbarde, 20 kilometers (12 miles) from Beledweyne, according to Abdi Aziz Suleiman of Radio Shebelle in Beledweyne. The extremists had been searching for her for several months, as they knew that she was a secret Christian like her late husband, Mursal Isse Siad, sources said. To read full story click here.
Monday, April 22, 2013 - 00:00 -- BY STEPHEN ASTARIKO
As Christians around the country thronged churches on their day of worship, many faithful in Garissa town chose to stay away from churches for fear of insecurity. A spot check by the Star revealed that the attendance at most of the churches in Garissa was below half the capacity as many Christians chose to attend services via their television sets at home for fear of reprisal attacks from assailants who have in the past attacked churches in the town. To read full story click here.
Friday, 8 March, 2013
According to Christian Post, two masked men killed Ahmed Ali Jimale, a 42-year-old father of four, on
Feb. 18 at 1 p.m. as he stood outside his house in Alanley estate, near a police station, they said. The killers were suspected to be members of the Islamic extremist Al Shabaab, a rebel militia ousted from the area four months ago but still engaging in hit-and-run tactics. A few of the four rival clans in Kismayo, 328 miles southwest of Mogadishu, are said to be housing members of Al Shabaab. To read full story click here.
SM, Wednesday, 20 February, 2013
“I love Jesus more than anything and I suffered in persecution because of believing in Him, obeying Him and serving Him. I will
not be living forever in this world and I want to leave a living legacy for others when I am not in this world.” Abdiweli wrote these words last years; little did we know that his martyrdom was imminent! On 7thFebruary 2013, a suspected Al Shabaab Islamists opened fire on two Christian leaders in Garissa, killing Ahmed Abdiweli.
them in a short rang, killing Revd Abdiweli instantly and severely injuring Pastor Makunyi, who is currently hospitalized in Nairobi. Revd. Abdiweli was well-known evangelist in Somali inhabited North-Eastern province of Kenya and among the Somali church worldwide.Published on Gatestone Institute
29 January, 2013
When one thinks of Yemen—the impoverished Arab country that begat Osama bin Laden and is cushioned between Saudi Arabia and Somalia, two of the absolute most radical Muslim nations—one seldom thinks of Christians, primarily because they are practically nonexistent in
such an inhospitable environment. In fact, most tallies suggest that Yemen’s entire non-Muslim population is less than one percent.
However, a new Arabic reportdiscusses the existence of Christians in Yemen, and their plight—a plight that should be familiar by now, wherever Christian minorities live under Muslim majorities.
Islamic extremists accuse young man of being spy, embracing ‘foreign religion’
SM, Monday, 19 November, 2012
According to the East Africa Correspondent for Morning Star News, Islamic extremists from Somalia’s rebel Al-Shabaab militants on Friday, 16 November, 2012 brutally murdered a Christian in Somalia’s coastal city of Barawa, accusing him of being a spy and leaving Islam, Christian and Muslim witnesses said.
Sunday, November 4, 2012
A grenade attack on a church in a police compound in Garissa town, north eastern Kenya has killed one police officer and injured at least 11 other people, reports say. The injured were taken to Garissa district hospital, with some then airlifted to the
capital Nairobi for further treatment.
The man who died was serving as pastor of the targeted church, in Garissa town near the border with Somalia. Most of the wounded are also reported to be police officers; some of whom were airlifted to hospital in Nairobi.
In July, 15 people were killed in raids on churches in Garissa, and suspicion fell on the al-Shabab militant group.
Somali Bantu woman shot dead after wife of militant confirmed she had Bibles.
NAIROBI, Kenya, Monday, October 22, 2012
Sources told Compass that a leader of Islamic extremist al Shabaab militia in Lower Juba identified only as Sheikh Arbow shot to death 46-year-old Mariam Muhina Hussein at 2 p.m. on Monday (Sept. 28) in Marerey village after discovering she had six Bibles. Marerey is eight kilometers (five miles) from Jilib, part of the neighboring Middle Juba region.
AFP, Nairobi, September 30, 2012
A suspected grenade attack killed one child and wounded nine others in a Nairobi church on Sunday, a day after Islamist fighters abandoned their last bastion in neighboring Somalia in the face of an assault by Kenyan and other troops. The blast
occurred during a service for young children at the Anglican St. Polycarp church, which lies in the Pangani district on the outskirts of the Kenyan capital.
Blood-stained children's jackets and shoes lay scattered on the floor, surrounded by remnants of metal walls that were broken and twisted by the force of the explosion.
"One child has died and three others have been seriously injured," Nairobi police chief Moses Nyakwama told AFP. "We suspect it was a grenade." A church official said nine children had been wounded.
The Standard, Nairobi, Friday, September 14, 2012
By Cyrus Ombati
Police are looking for eight more suspects who escaped during a house raid in Nairobi's Eastleigh Estate. Two other suspected terrorists were arrested and six suicide bombs, 12 grenades, four AK 47 rifles and 480 bullets recovered from them as police
thwarted a major terror plot in Nairobi.
The two were arrested at a residential house on Thursday night in Eastleigh area where they have been staying in the past two months while plotting the alleged attack on churches.
Police said they were part of a larger terror gang that planned to attack strategic buildings in the city. Two other suspects are at large and police are hunting them in the city. The suspects apparently planned to use them at churches on Sunday.
The suicide bombs had been mounted on vests attached with mobile phones with batteries, which police said would have ignited a series of explosions.