Survival International, an organization dedicated to protecting indigenous peoples including those on Sentinel Island, is urging Indian authorities to give up the quest to retrieve the body of John Allen Chau, the missionary adventurer believed to have died there on November 17. Chau, an American with ties to South Africa,…
The family of a Christian missionary with ties to South Africa says they’ve received word he was killed in India’s Andaman Islands by members of a fiercely private tribe known for hostility to outsiders. John Allen Chau, an American from the state of Washington, was an adventurer who traveled much…
The fighting in Cameroon’s northwest region claimed the life of an American missionary on Tuesday, just two weeks after he arrived with his family in the West Africa conflict zone. Charles Trumann Wesco, 44, was rushed to a hospital in Bamenda after he was shot in the head near Bambui….
Sudan will host the Czech foreign minister in Khartoum on Sunday, where he is expected to appeal for amnesty in the case of Petr Jasek, a missionary sentenced by a Sudanese court to life in prison after he was accused of spying. Foreign Minister Lubomir Zaoralek will meet with Sudanese…