Young radical Muslims suspected in attacks on island off coast of East Africa.
NAIROBI, Kenya, June 30 (Compass
Direct News) – Two church buildings were razed Sunday night (June 28)
on the island of Zanzibar after worship services. Suspected radical
Muslims set the church buildings on fire on the outskirts of Unguja
Township, on the Tanzanian island off the coast of East Africa, in what
church leaders called the latest incidents of a rising tide of
religious intolerance. With Christian movements making inroads in the
Muslim-dominated area, the Evangelical Assemblies of God in Tanzania
(EAGT) church and a Pentecostal Evangelical Fellowship in Africa church
building a few miles away were burned down as a fierce warning, church
leaders said. “We don’t want churches on our street,” read a flier
dropped at the door of Charles Odilo, who had donated the plot on which
the EAGT building stood. “Today we are going to burn the church, and if
you continue we are going to burn your house also.” READ MORE