Iran on Wednesday, November 18, released two young Christian women who faced execution or at least life imprisonment for converting from Islam to Christianity.
...continue reading this storyTwo young Christian women who faced execution or at least life imprisonment in Iran for converting from Islam to Christianity were to be released as early as Tuesday, November 17, after international pressure and prayers, their representatives told Worthy News and its partner agency BosNewsLife.
...continue reading this storyIsrael has charged a Jewish-American extremist with shooting to death two Palestinians and trying to kill others, including a Messianic Jewish family, who he received a booby-trapped package in March 2008 that left their son critically injured.
...continue reading this storyA gathering of Christian leaders from across the Middle East that was to be held in Egypt next month has been postponed due to “security concerns,” organizers confirmed Saturday, November 14.
...continue reading this storyIran’s government has ordered one of the country’s largest Protestant churches to halt Friday services, while a pastor remains detained for protesting plans to “impose the reading of the Koran” on Christian children, Worthy News monitored Monday, November 9.
...continue reading this storyA Coptic Christian was believed to remain under police surveillance Friday, November 6, after he was reportedly detained for two days in central Egypt for “praying without a license.”
...continue reading this storyA Coptic Christian blogger, who has been detained for over a year in Egypt after criticizing authorities, is “being pressured” by violent prison authorities to convert to Islam in exchange for his freedom, attorneys and rights activists said.
...continue reading this storyTwo young women who converted from Islam to Christianity may face execution or at least life imprisonment after an Iranian court officially charged them with “apostasy” and “propagation of the Christian faith”, trial observers and Iranian Christians confirmed Thursday, October 8.
...continue reading this storyPalestinian Christians on Tuesday, October 7, urged prayers as they observed the second anniversary of the day that militants murdered the director of the only known Christian bookstore in the Gaza Strip.
...continue reading this storyGunmen have kidnapped a Christian doctor from her home near the northern Iraqi city of Mosul overnight in front of her four children, police said on Sunday, September 27.
...continue reading this story