Ugandan church razed despite COVID-19 ban on evictions
Kampala, UgandaReligion Unplugged Ugandans woke up Monday morning to some shocking news: a large church built in 1980 by the Anglican Church in Kampala was demolished overnight. Eyewitnesses told Religion Unplugged that court bailiffs stormed St Peter’s Church at 11:30pm with hammers, axes, hoes and machetes and razed down the structure. The bailiffs used the […]
Church building demolished, two Christians arrested in Sudan
Morning Star News Khartoum state authorities in Sudan demolished a church building on Sunday as Christians were preparing to worship, sources said. In the Khartoum suburb of Soba al Aradi, which began as a refugee camp for South Sudanese, a bulldozer sent by Jebel Aulia locality and the Ministry of Planning and Urban Development arrived […]
Church demolitions in Cuba continue as government crackdown on religious freedom intensifies, says CSW report
Church demolitions in Cuba have increased over the first half of 2016 thanks to an ongoing government crackdown which is also resulting in the confiscation of Assemblies of God churches, according to a new report from Christian Solidarity Worldwide. The UK-based religious freedom advocacy’s report details more than 1,600 violations of religious freedom between January […]