RELIGION TENSIONS IN TANZANIA: Christians VS Muslims

Tanzania

Christians Live in Cloud of Fear in Zanzibar

Published in 2011

NAIROBI, Kenya, September 5 (CDN) — On Tanzania’s semi-autonomous island of Zanzibar, Christians live in a climate of fear. It’s a place where a young man flees the island to escape death threats from his Muslim family, and a Christian who accidentally burned pages of the Quran opts ....

Muslim Extremists Torch Churches in Zanzibar

Published in 2011

NAIROBI, Kenya, August 1 (CDN) — Muslim extremists on Saturday (July 30) burned down a church building on Zanzibar island off the coast of Tanzania, church leaders said, just three days after another congregation’s facility on the island was reduced to ashes. In Fuoni on the ....

Muslims Seize Christian Burial Sites in Tanzania’s Archipelago

Published in 2011

ZANZIBAR, Tanzania, July 29 (CDN) — Influential Muslims on this East African island have begun building what appears to be a hotel on a 100-year-old burial site owned by an Anglican church, Christian leaders said. Church leaders with ownership papers for the land told Compass they ....

Two Church Buildings Torn Down in Zanzibar

Published in 2010

ZANZIBAR, Tanzania, November 25 (CDN) — Radical Islamists are suspected in the demolition of two church buildings on Tanzania’s semi-autonomous island of Zanzibar on Sunday (Nov. 21), as members of the congregations have since received death threats from Muslims. The church buildings ....

Evangelist Arrested in Zanzibar

Published in 2010

NAIROBI, Kenya, August 19 (CDN) — Christian university students on the Tanzanian island of Zanzibar, a predominantly Muslim area off the coast of East Africa, have been denied the right to worship, while on another part of the isle a Christian leader has been jailed. Sources said ....

Court Acquits Two Evangelists of ‘Illegal Preaching’

Published in 2010

NAIROBI, Kenya, August 13 (CDN) — A Tanzanian court yesterday acquitted two evangelists of “illegal preaching.” After 10 months of hearings, a Kariakoo area court in Dar es Salaam closed the case against Anglican Christians Eleutery Kobelo and Cecil Simbaulanga, who were arrested ....

Zanzibar Muslims, Officials Stop Church Building, Erect Mosque

Published in 2010

NAIROBI, Kenya, August 6 (CDN) — On an island off the coast of East Africa where the local government limits the ability of Christians to obtain land, officials in one town have colluded with area Muslims to erect a mosque in place of a planned church building. On the Tanzanian ....

Arrested Evangelists Say Muslims Colluded with Police

Published in 2010

NAIROBI, Kenya, February 3 (CDN) — Two Christian evangelists in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, have been arrested after Muslims invited them to debate religion but instead called in security agents who charged the evangelists with illegal preaching.   Anglican evangelists Eleutery ....

Two Church Buildings Burned Down in Zanzibar, Tanzania

Published in 2009

NAIROBI, Kenya, July 1 (CDN) — Two church buildings were razed Sunday night (June 28) on the Tanzanian island of Zanzibar after worship services.Suspected radical Muslims set the church buildings on fire on the outskirts of Unguja Township, on the island off the coast of East ....

Two Church Buildings Burned Down in Zanzibar

Published in 2009

June 30 (CDN) — NAIROBI, Kenya, June 30 (Compass Direct News) – Two church buildings were razed Sunday night (June 28) on the Tanzanian island of Zanzibar after worship services. Suspected radical Muslims set the church buildings on fire on the outskirts of Unguja ....

Zanzibar Evicts Congregation from Government Building

Published in 2009

NAIROBI, Kenya, June 22 (CDN) — A pastor in Zanzibar City said his church is without a worship place after government officials, at the instigation of radical Islamists, evicted the congregation from their rented building on Tanzania’s Zanzibar Island off the coast of East Africa. ....

Zanzibar Evicts Congregation from Government Building

Published in 2009

June 22 (CDN) — NAIROBI, Kenya, June 22 (Compass Direct News) – A pastor in Zanzibar City said his church is without a worship place after government officials, at the instigation of radical Islamists, evicted the congregation from their rented building on ....

Radical Muslims Drive Church from Worship Place in Zanzibar

Published in 2009

NAIROBI, Kenya, May 26 (CDN) — Sunday worship in a house church near Zanzibar City, on a Tanzanian island off the coast of East Africa, did not take place for the third week running on Sunday (May 24) after Muslim extremists expelled worshippers from their rented ....

Radical Muslims Drive Church from Worship Place in Zanzibar

Published in 2009

May 26 (CDN) — NAIROBI, Kenya, May 26 (Compass Direct News) – Sunday worship in a house church near Zanzibar City, on a Tanzanian island off the coast of East Africa, did not take place for the third week running on Sunday (May 24) after Muslim extremists expelled ....

Christians Oppressed on Indian Ocean Islands

Published in 2008

December 5 (CDN) — ZANZIBAR, Tanzania, Dec. 5 (Compass Direct News) – Christians on the predominantly Muslim islands of Pemba and the Comoros archipelago are beaten, detained and banished for their faith, according to church leaders who travel regularly to the Indian ....

Suspects Arrested in Wake of Attacks on Three Zanzibar Churches

Published in 2004

October 29 (CDN) — October 29 (Compass) -- Police on the small, predominately Muslim island of Zanzibar off the coast of Tanzania have stepped up investigations and arrested three suspects after two Catholic churches were destroyed and a small Protestant church was ....

Churches on Guard Following Attacks

Published in 2004

April 5 (CDN) — April 5 (Compass) — Churchgoers on the tiny, Muslim dominated island of Zanzibar off the coast of Tanzania are aware of a growing threat by Muslim extremists suspected of carrying out recent attacks against church facilities. “There are some people ....

«We Don’t Need a Christian Gospel!»

Published in 2001

November 16 (CDN) — (Compass) - The Rev. Z* often ministers in a Muslim area near Arusha, where there is no Christian church and where the people will not allow a church to be established. \"It is hard to witness where I come from,\" he said. \"People put their hands ....

Tanzanian Islamic newspaper tells USA to let Somalis “govern themselves”

Tanzanian Muslims hold placards as they demonstrate after Friday prayers on the streets of Dar Es Salaam

Excerpt from editorial entitled “Islam is what is being fought in Somalia” by Tanzanian weekly Islamic newspaper An-Nuur on 6 August

In his report entitled “Islamic courts union was better placed to pacifySomalia” (17 April 2007), Dominic Pkalya said, shortly after the government of the Union of Islamic Courts was driven out of power in December 2006, the only chance Somalis had to build a peaceful country had been snatched away, according to the opinion of experts at the time. The experts` views were informed on the fact that, in a short period of six months - beginning June to December 2006 - the courts were in power, Somalia was peaceful. Warlords were silenced and disarmed. Crime and looting ended and people resumed their normal lives of nation building.

The situation has, however, been different since the invasion of the Ethiopian army and formation of a subsequent government backed by the US. Clan fighting has once again resumed. Crime and evil of all kinds has returned reminiscent of the days before the Union of Islamic Courts capturedMogadishu.

Given this situation and before this truth that everyone confesses, the question to pose is: Why did America give Ethiopia the go-ahead to invade [Somalia] and fight the Union of Islamic Courts that had managed to restore peace to Somalia?

Muslim Radicals Burn Homes and Livestock in Tunduru Tanzania

Extremists in Tunduru District in south-western Tanzania burned the homes and livestock of several Christians on 17 September. One home was burned to the ground, but bystanders managed to save five others from complete destruction by dousing them with water. The Muslim extremists also burned more than 60 pigs belonging to Christians.

In another recent incident in the region, the cars of a Pentecostal pastor and another believer were burned on the night of 25 September 'It's unfortunate to say that even though all these incidents were duly reported to the nearby police stations, no one has been arrested so far,' a VOM contact said. He explained that 80 percent of the region is Muslim. 'Please do pray with us against this demonic spirit of attacks on Christians and their properties!' he added. Source: VOM USA

http://www.persecution.com.au/news.asp?id=1117&pid=1

Muslim Extremists Torch Churches in Zanzibar

Remains of Free Evangelical Pentecostal Church in Africa building Kiang, near Zanzibar town.	(Photo: Compass)

Worship buildings burned on east African archipelago’s Zanzibar, Pemba islands.

NAIROBI, Kenya,  (CDN) — Muslim extremists on Saturday (July 30) burned down a church building on Zanzibar island off the coast of Tanzania, church leaders said, just three days after another congregation’s facility on the island was reduced to ashes.


In Fuoni on the south coast of Zanzibar (known locally as Unguja), Islamic extremists torched the building of the Evangelical Assemblies of God-Tanzania (EAGT) at around 2 p.m., said Pastor Leonard Massasa, who oversees Zanzibar’s EAGT churches. The assailants were shouting, “Away with the church – we do not want infidels to spoil our community, especially our children,” Pastor Massasa said.


The EAGT church is about 60 kilometers (37 miles) from Zanzibar town.


“Tomorrow is Sunday, and my members numbering 40 will not have any place to worship,” Pastor Paulo Magungu of the Fuoni EAGT church said. With fear in his voice, the pastor added, “We have reported the case to the police station. I hope justice will be done.”


He reported the case at Fuoni police station immediately after it happened, he said.


In Kianga, about 10 kilometers (six miles) from Zanzibar town, another church building was burned down on Wednesday (July 27) at about 2 a.m., said Pastor George Frank Dunia of Free Evangelical Pentecostal Church in Africa. The fire destroyed 45 chairs. 

Waislam wa Tanzania WACHOMA MOTO Makanisa Mbagala

Mbagala Kizuiani mabomu,baada ya kijana kukojolea QURUAN.

MJI WA MBAGALA na vitongoji vyake unazizima kwa fujo, vurugu na visasi baada ya mtoto wa kiume anayedaiwa kusoma kidato cha pili kukojolea kitabu kitakatifu cha QURUAN.





hayo ndio mambo ya mbagala kuna maandamano wa waislamu maeneo ya kizuiani kuusu kijana ambaye alikojolea msaafu na makanisa yetu ya mbagala wamebomolewa na watu kuibiwa bidhaa zao. 



Ndugu Hamis Salum baba wa mtoto ambaye Quran yake imekojolewa



Baadhi ya Waislamu wakishambuliwa kwa kupigwa na polisi kwa kupinga kitendo cha Mtoto Emanuel Josephat (14) kukojolea Qur-an takatifu



Wanafunzi wakiziba uso kuzuia mabomu ya machozi leo Mbagala

TANZANIA, ZANZIBAR: Muslim leaders want to turn the tropical paradise into another Afghanistan ruled by the Taliban

Although only about 3% of the population of Zanzibar is Christian (with 45% of Tanzanians Christian), Muslims want to purge the country of everything non-Islamic. They are teaching hatred for Christians who won’t convert and are burning down churches in order to help turn Africa into the first all-Muslim continent. Once you convert to Islam, you will never be allowed to leave….alive.

Zanzibar guarantees freedom of religion, but with Islam their constitution cannot protect them.  In additions, the Muslims (ALL) are teaching to one another to HATE all Christians.  Zanzibar’s mosques are fuller on Fridays, more women are wearing head scarves and more Muslim men are showing calluses created by frequently touching their foreheads to the ground in prayer. A growing number of Zanzibaris are turning toward a stricter form of Islam and possibly away from democracy. Fundamentalist clerics see an opportunity, offering Islamic law as an alternative to democracy, arguing that would bring discipline and moral values to political leadership. 

http://www.barenakedislam.com/2012/01/03/tanzania-zanzibar-muslim-leaders-want-to-turn-the-tropical-paradise-into-another-afghanistan-ruled-by-the-taliban/

Arrested Evangelists in Tanzania Say Muslims Colluded with Police

Tanzania's mainland population is divided in to - Christian 30%, Muslim 35%, indigenous beliefs 35%; although the semi-autonomous islands of Zanzibar - is more than 99% Muslim. [+]

This article states that there are more Christians - but perhaps they practise a combination of Christianity and indigenous beliefs.

NAIROBI, Kenya, February 2 (CDN) — Two Christian evangelists in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, have been arrested after Muslims invited them to debate religion but instead called in security agents who charged the evangelists with illegal preaching.

Anglican evangelists Eleutery Kobelo and Cecil Simbaulanga, released on bail and facing a hearing on Feb. 11, told Compass that Christian and Muslim groups organized the inter-faith debate that was planned for a neutral venue in October of last year in the Kariakoo area of Dar es Salaam. 

Tanzania - Bishop warns of growing Islamization

A local Catholic leader has warned of growing Islamization in Tanzania.

In an interview with international Catholic pastoral charity Aid to the Church in Need (ACN), Bernadin Mfumbusa, Bishop of Kondoa Diocese, said increasing Islamization  could be seen in the way more and more itinerant preachers from Saudi Arabia and the Sudan were entering this East African country.

Local Muslims are also increasingly making political demands, according to the bishop.

"In many parts of the country, more veiled women than in the past can be seen, among them small girls. Verbal attacks are also on the increase," the Bishop reported.

“Furthermore, the number of Qur’an schools is growing, and in these the pupils are being influenced negatively with respect to attendance of regular schools, which is compulsory in Tanzania.  But to date there had been no violent attacks in Kondoa Diocese. "

“In the church schools, which are also attended by Muslim children, we must be very sensitive and cautious to avoid any undesirable incidents," Bishop Mfumbusa explained.

In the semi-autonomous sub-state of Zanzibar, whose population is almost completely Muslim, sharia law is already in force, unlike in other parts of the country.

RADICAL MUSLIMS TORCHED TWO CHURCHES AT BAGAMOYO IN TANZANIA

On 6th September, 2012 at midnight, radical Muslims burnt two churches at Natuli village, Mdaula Ward, Bagamoyo District in Coastal region in Tanzania, 64 km from Dar es Salaam, as a perpertual campaign against Christianity and Christians in Tanzania.

The churches torched are The Anglican church which is ministered by Rev. Kevin Ngaeje and The Free Pentecostal Church in Tanzania (FPCT) under Pastor Boaz Miyengo

.A handful of churches have been torched by radical Muslims in Zanzibar and the mainland. The Pastors have reported the incident to the government.

On 7th Sept, 2012, The  Bagamoyo District Commissioner Hon. Ahmed Kipozi together with the District Administration Secretary (DAS), District Security Officer (DSO) and Police District Officer went to scene.

No human injury has been reported and the criminals have not yet been arrested so far.

Islamist extremism spreading in Tanzania

AP

Radical preachers are coming to Tanzania from neighbouring countries, a bishop has warned

Islamisation is increasing at an alarming rate in Tanzania according to a bishop from the country.

Bishop Bernadin Mfumbusa of Kondoa warned that religious freedom and other civil liberties were under threat from intolerant radical Muslim influences sweeping in from countries neighbouring the east African nation.

Speaking to Aid to the Church in Need, the Catholic charity for persecuted and other suffering Christians, the bishop said: “We see more and more itinerant preachers from Saudi Arabia and Sudan entering this country – and Muslims are increasingly making political demands.”

These demands include extending Islamic Sharia law and making everyone subject to it – Muslim and non-Muslim alike.

Bishop Mfumbusa said: “In recent times there has been a constant demand to introduce Shari‘a into other parts of Tanzania which do not have a majority of Muslims.”

Sharia law is already in force in Zanzibar, a semi-autonomous archipelago with an almost completely Muslim population, but it does not apply to other parts of the country.

The bishop said there were calls for Sharia, which currently applies in areas of civil law such as marriage and inheritance, to be extended to cover criminal law.

“They claim that otherwise Muslims would be able to avoid the law by claiming not to be Muslim.