An Iraqi bishop whose community has taken in more than 70,000 displaced Christians is dismayed that the government in Baghdad has failed to offer any assistance, according to Patheos.
...continue reading this storyBarnabas Aid has learned that women and girls being held captive by ISIS at Mosul’s Badush Prison have been given the choice to either convert to Islam, or suffer rape on a daily basis until they change their minds.
...continue reading this storyJihadists from the Islamic State have destroyed a Syrian church that memorialized the Armenian Genocide in which more than a million Armenian and Assyrian Christians died at the hands of Turkish Muslims.
...continue reading this storyAttacks by violent Muslims have increased in intensity against a Christian congregation in East Jerusalem.
...continue reading this storySeptember 26, 2014 marks two years since American Pastor Abedini Saeed was imprisoned in Iran.
...continue reading this storyThree pastors are facing charges that could lead to the death penalty for their involvement in Iran’s underground house-church movement.
...continue reading this storyLast week, Saudi Arabia’s notorious religious police — the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice — had arrested almost 30 Christians worshiping at a private home in the Saudi city of Khafji.
...continue reading this storyAn Iranian Christian pastor imprisoned for his faith now faces the death penalty after being officially charged with “spreading corruption on [the] Earth.”
...continue reading this storyYears of harassment by militant Muslims have forced a Palestinian church in East Jerusalem to leave their own building.
...continue reading this storyAn Iranian pastor has been charged with “waging war against God,” a crime punishable by death, according to BarnabasAid.
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