After the April liberation of an ancient Syrian town from the Islamic State’s control, many of its churches and Christian buildings were found to have been destroyed, or badly damaged.
...continue reading this storyDuring an official crackdown on Iran’s house-church leadership, a Christian convert from Islam serving a sentence in Rajai Shahr Prison has secretly sent a message of encouragement to the Islamic Republic’s persecuted Christians.
...continue reading this storyFour Christian Bible translators were killed when Muslim gunmen raided the Wycliffe Associates office in the Middle East last week.
...continue reading this storyLast week the Islamic State posted an online video showing its jihadists throwing books bearing crosses on their covers into a bonfire in the city of Mosul, in northern Iraq.
...continue reading this storyGunmen who stormed a Catholic-run retirement home in Aden, Yemen, went from room to room handcuffing their victims before fatally shooting 16 staff members, including four nuns.
...continue reading this storyOut of a total of 281 refugees, the U.S. State Department has admitted only two Syrian Christians into the U.S. in the first two months of 2016.
...continue reading this storyThe U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee has unanimously passed HR 75, a resolution declaring that those who commit or support mass murder against religious minorities are guilty of “genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity.”
...continue reading this storyNews of Saturday’s release of Iranian-American Christian pastor Saeed Abedini was hailed, especially at an event in honor of religious liberty.
...continue reading this storyIn lieu of his medical treatments, an Iranian Christian in Rajai Shahr Prison, north-west of Tehran, Iran, was instead given five more years in prison.
...continue reading this storyA coordinated attack on three restaurants owned by Assyrian Christians in Syria killed 16 and injured dozens more during Christmas celebrations.
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