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By BosNewsLife Africa Service NAIROBI, KENYA (BosNewslife)-- Christians in Kenya were mourning Friday, February 8, the death of two Somali pastors who were reportedly murdered by suspected Islamic militants. Abdi Weli and another unidentified Christian were shot dead in a main market of the eastern city Garissa late Wednesday, February 7, local Christians and rights activists told BosNewsLife.

>Hungary has Europe's "most restrictive" church registration law >Concerns over Western countries Britain, Spain, Netherlands By Stefan J. Bos, Chief International Correspondent BosNewsLife AMSTERDAM/BUDAPEST (BosNewsLife)-- At least 200 million Christians suffer discrimination and persecution worldwide, including even in European Union countries such as Hungary, which now has Europe's "most restrictive" church registration law, according to a new report obtained by BosNewsLife Thursday, October 18.

By BosNewsLife Africa Service with reporting by BosNewsLife's Special Correspondent Paul Jongas in the region NAIROBI, KENYA (BosNewsLife)-- Christians in Kenya's troubled port city of Mombasa were on edge Saturday, October 5, after Muslim mobs torched a Salvation Army church in riots that killed four people and injured at least seven others. Friday's attack against the Salvation Army, an international Christian charity, came shortly after gunmen shot and killed Sheikh Ibrahim Amor, a popular Muslim cleric, and the three of his associates.

By BosNewsLife Africa Service with reporting by BosNewsLife's Stefan J. Bos NAIROBI, KENYA (BosNewsLife)-- Eleven people, most of them Christians, have been shot and killed...

By BosNewsLife Africa Service NAIROBI, KENYA (BosNewsLife)-- Evangelical Christians in Kenya's coastal city of Mombasa faced a worship service Sunday, February 9, without a devoted church leader who was killed while guarding his congregation's building.

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NAIROBI, KENYA (BosNewsLife)-- Two Italian nuns kidnapped by Somali gunmen in a cross-border raid into Kenya in November were spent another day in freedom Thursday, February 26, after they were suddenly freed, missionaries confirmed.

By BosNewsLife Africa Service ABUJA, NIGERIA (BosNewsLife)-- Nigeria's government came under pressure Friday, March 6, to set up an independent commission investigating deadly attacks against Christians by Muslim extremists, while elsewhere in Africa, in Kenya, an evangelical church expressed concerns over Muslim militants.

By BosNewsLife Africa Service with reporting by BosNewsLife's Stefan J. Bos NAIROBI, KENYA (BosNewsLife)-- Christians in eastern Kenya have plunged into mourning after three Christian...

By BosNewsLife Africa Service ABUJA/NAIROBI (BosNewsLife)-- Christians in Kenya and Nigeria were mourning Monday, June 16, the aftermath of two massive attacks by Islamic militants in which at least some 120 people died.