Wednesday, January 30, 2013

FURIOUS MUSLIMS DESTROYED 5 CHURCHES AS BOY DEFILED QURAN IN DAR ES SALAAM TANZANIA

The Evangelical Lutheran Church, Mbagala Parish on fire set by furious Muslims

On Friday of 12th Oct,2012, five churches along with other properties, were  destroyed by furious Muslims at Mbagala surbub, Temeke District, in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, following the protesting of the defilement by urinating on the holy Quran done by the alledged 14 yrs Christian boy. 11 cars were also destroyed

The churches include Catholic Church  at Mbagala Zakhem, The Evangelical Lutheran Church, Mbagala Parish, The Seventh Day Adventist Church, Tanzania Assemblies of God, The Anglican Church Mbagala Parish.
The sources of the incident is the argument between the Christian boy and a 10 yrs Muslim boy over the power of the Quran to turn anyone who defiles into snake. The Christian boy swore he would not be harmed if he played with the Quran while his Muslim friend maintained that he would turn into a snake or run mad if he would do so.
The christian boy then urinated on the book.As he was doing so the Muslim man arrived and asked the boys why they were doing so. The old man and other people took the Christian boy to his home and handed him to his mother and told her what he had done. His mother responded that she would give them money to buy another Quran, the statement that angered the group which vowed to deal with the child.

The group then took the boy to the chairman of Chamazi local government where they secured a letter to take the boy to the police post for further questioning.Muslim mobilized more support during Friday prayers attempting to grab the boy from Police and beheaded him

This is the second similar incident within 10 months which involve the arguments over the power of the Quran.But all the time the Christian side becomes the victim leaving out Muslims who bring the Quran into the argument. Eva Mohammed, 19 yrs, on 32rd July 2012, was imprisonment for two years at Bagamoyo being accused of  urinating on the Quran brought by Ibrahim. Ibrahim is not arrested so far, so does the Muslim boy  who brought the Quran to the Christian boy.

The Christian community asks: Is this one among the many tricks to eradicate what fundamentalist Muslims call "Christendom in the land"? For how long will the churches be burnt?  

Pray for the Christian boy who still in the hands of Police that may God pave the way out of this hard situation and for the entire Church of Tanzania.


http://findtruefaith.blogspot.com/2012/10/furious-muslims-destroyed-5-churches-as.html

KONDOA MUSLIMS PROTEST: "COMPASSION INTERNATIONAL GET OUT OF KONDOA ISLAMIC TERRITORY"


Radical Muslims at Pahi, Kondoa District, Dodoma region in Tanzania, have started protesting the projects run by the Compassion International which aimed at promoting the livelihood of the Rangi people.


The project include providing human needs including schooling materials and health services for the Rangi children whose parents live in an abject poverty. Kondoa is a 95% Muslim dominated area.

Sheikh Mohammed Issa, one of the prominent fundamentalist Muslim leaders, went there in November 24,2012 to attend the graduation of the Iqra English Medium School run by Pahi Islamic Centre and noticed that the services provided by the Compassion International have had positive impact in  improving the livelihood of  many Muslims. This made him furious and vow to deal with the organization.

The weekly Muslim fundamentalists' newspaper "AN-NUUR"  No.1047 of Nov 30-Dec 6,2012 has reported about the hatred of fundamentalist Muslims  against any Un-Islamic organization, as they call this is a catastrophe to the Islamic movements.

Fundamentalist Muslims in recent days, have destroyed the Christians churches and torching many other to protect what they call to eradicate Christianity hegemony in the land. Tanzania is a secular state constitutionally. 

http://findtruefaith.blogspot.com/2012/11/kondoa-muslim-protest-compassion.html

Thursday, December 27, 2012

Zanzibar: Catholic Priest Shot in Christmas Day Attack...



The Christmas Day shooting happened as the Catholic priest was returning home from his church


A gunman shot and seriously wounded a Catholic priest late Tuesday in Zanzibar City, capital of the semi-autonomous Tanzanian archipelago, police said.
The Christmas Day shooting happened as Father Ambrose Mkenda was returning home from his church at around 7:45 pm (1645GMT), Zanzibar police spokesman Aziz Juma said.
Mkenda was hit in his arm and chest.
As doctors battled to save his life, members of the Christian minority community gathered at Mnazi-Mmoja Hospital in the old town of Zanzibar.
“The injured priest is the head of the Tomondo Catholic Church and also cashier” Aziz Juma said, adding that it was not immediately clear if the attack had been religiously motivated.
“Investigation continues, but it may be also that the attackers thought the priest had money”, he said, adding that a pistol had been used in the attack.
This is the second attack on a cleric in recent weeks, but the last one, in November, was an acid attack on a Muslim cleric, who was injured on his face and chest.
Zanzibar’s Christian community is a minority there, an estimated 3% of the 1.2 million population, which is almost entirely Muslim.
This latest attack comes few days after unknown people spread leaflets in some streets, calling on the Zanzibar government to release eight jailed Muslim leaders.
http://www.sowetanlive.co.za/news/world/2012/12/27/priest-shot-in-suspected-muslim-attack

Wednesday, October 17, 2012

RELIGION TENSIONS IN TANZANIA: Christians VS Muslims

Tanzania
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 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 ....
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 ....
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
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 ....
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 ....
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 ....
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 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 ....
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 ....
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. ....
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 ....
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 ....
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 ....
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 ....
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 (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 ....
(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 ....

Tuesday, October 16, 2012

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

Muslim Extremists Torch Churches in Zanzibar


Remains of Free Evangelical Pentecostal Church in Africa building Kiang, near Zanzibar town.
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. 

Friday, October 12, 2012

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

Monday, October 8, 2012

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. 

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.

Bishop Bernardin Francis MfumbusaLocal 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



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.

Monday, September 10, 2012

RADICAL MUSLIMS BURNT THREE CHURCHES IN MWANZA

ON WEDNESDAY OF 21ST SEPT, 2011 AT 02:00 PM HRS, THREE CHURCHES WERE BURNT BY THE RADICAL MUSLIMS IN MWANZA TANZANIA. THE CHURCHES INCLUDE:- (1)(TANZANIA ASSEMBLIES OF GOD (T.A.G)-LUMALA PARISH (2)TANZANIA ASSEMBLIES OF GOD (T.A.G.)-NYAMANOLO PARISH AND (3)PENTECOSTAL ASSEMBLIES OF GOD (P.A.G.)-PASIANSI PARISHBOTH AT ILEMELA DISTRICT IN MWANZA CITY.

THE SOURCE OF THIS CRUELTY AND PROVOCATIVE ACTION, IS THE CLAIM MADE BY RADICAL MUSLIMS, WHO ,FALSELY,ACCUSED FOUR EVANGELISTS FROM T.A.G-LUMALA PARISH TO BURN THE QUR'AN.

BISHOP ISABU,AN OVERSEER OF TANZANIA ASSEMBLIES OF GOD IN MWANZA, SAID THAT A MUSLIM WOMAN HUSNA KHAMIS,WHO WAS ALSO A WITCH DOCTOR,INVITED EVANGELISTS AT HER HOME TO PRAY FOR HER, FOLLOWING THE HEALTH PROBLEMS SHE HAD. SHE WAS POSSESSED BY DEMONS OF WITCH DOCTOR AS WELL AS FELL SICK ALWAYS. THE EVANGELISTS WENT THERE AND MINISTERED, UNTIL, FINALLY, ALL THE DEMONS WERE, COMPLETELY, CAST OUT AND WAS HEALED. THIS RESULTED TO SURRENDER HER LIFE TO JESUS. LATER ON, THE WOMAN ASKED EVANGELISTS TO BURN ALL HER FETISHES, INCLUDING WALL PICTURES WHICH DEPICTED ARABS CULTURE.

WITHIN NO TIME HER BROTHER-IN-LAW, WHO IS AN ISLAM, ( HER HUSBAND HAS DESERTED ALONE FOR A LONG TIME NOW), ARRIVED AND INQUIRED WHY EVANGELIST WERE THERE. THE WOMAN TOLD THE WHOLE STORY AND HOW SHE RECEIVED HEALING AFTER PRAYERS AND THE BURNT OF THE ARAB CULTURE PICTURES.

THE GUY BECAME FURIOUS AND IMMEDIATELY RUSHED TO THE NEARBY MOSQUE AND REPORTED ABOUT THE BURNT OF THE HOLY QUR'AN.

Tanzanian Church Leaders Demand Action After Islamic Radicals ...



Mohamed Aboud (R), Minister of State in the Zanzibar Second Vice President�s Office, listens to Bishop Dr Valentino Mokiwa (2nd-L) of the Anglican Church of Tanzania when a delegation of bishops representing 

Religious leaders yesterday condemned attacks on churches and Christian structures, pressing the Zanzibar government to bring to book perpetrators of the acts, which threatened peace and unity.

The leaders who met the minister of State in the Second Vice President’s Office, Mohamed Aboud, called on the Isles government to institute punitive actions against the pioneers of the burning of churches, convents in Zanzibar. Reading a statement, on behalf of the other leaders, Head of the Anglican Church, Bishop Valentine Mokiwa said the destructive acts posed a bigger threat to the security of their followers and the national unity.

“Our followers are living in fear, because of what happened to our churches some few days…there is also displeasure, on their part (followers) over government inaction and failure to take those responsible to court,” said Mokiwa. The burning of churches started long time ago, but the government did not act decisively to put a stop to the acts, he said.

MAKANISA YACHOMWA MOTO BAGAMOYO!


 Moja ya mitaa mbalimbali katika wilaya ya Bagamoyo

Hofu kubwa imetanda katika wilaya ya Bagamoyo Mkoani Pwani baada ya makanisa mawili yaliyopo katika kijiji cha Matuli kata ya Bwilingu kuchomwa moto na watu wasiojulikana huku familia nyingine zikikimbia msituni kwa kuhofia kuchomewa ndani.

habari zaidi zinaeleza kwamba makanisa yaliyochomwa moto ni pamoja na lile la Free Pentekoste Church Tanzania [FPCT] na lile la Anglikana. Akizungumzia tukio hilo mchungaji wa Kanisa la Pentekoste alisema asubuhi ya Septemba6 akiwa katika shughuli zake za kawaida alikutana na mwenyekiti wa kijiji hicho, Shabaan minda na kumwelezea jinsi matukio hayo ya kuchomwa kwa makanisa hayo kilivyoleta hofu katika eneo hilo. Kwa upande wake mchungaji wa Kanisa la Anglikana Mchungaji Moses Lukanda alisema katika kanisa hilo kulikuwa na ujenzi uliokuwa unaendelea lakini walifika baadhi ya watu wakabomoa ukuta kisha kuchoma moto.

Kutokana na matukio hayo ikiwa ni baada ya kutoa taarifa na kuhojiwa katika kituo kikuu cha polisi Chalinze mchungaji Peter kazimoto na mwenzake Moses Lukanda wameiomba Serikali kutoa tamko kali kutokana na kitendo hicho ambacho kimeanza kuota mizizi katika mikoa kadhaa nchini.

WAISLAM WAANDAMANA MPAKA WIZARA YA MAMBO YA NDANI!


Waumini wa imani ya dini Kiislamu wakiwa nje ya jengo la wizara ya mambo ya ndani jijini Dar es salaam.

Habari zinasema kwamba kumekuwepo na maandamano katika maeneo ya katikati ya jiji na hatimaye mkusanyiko mkubwa wa waumini wa imani ya dini ya kiislamu nje ya jengo la wizara ya mambo ya ndani lililoko katika mtaa wa Ohio jijini Dar es salaam. 

Habari zaidi zinasema kwamba nia kubwa ya maandamano na mkusanyiko huo ni kuitaka serikali iwaachilie huru waislam wote waliokamatwa na kuwekwa kizuizini kutokana na kugoma kuhesabiwa katika zoezi la Sensa ambalo lilianza mnamo tarehe 26/08/2012 huku likiendelea mpaka hapo tarehe 09/09/2012.