Two Christian brothers in Punjab Province, Pakistan were abducted last month by Islamic extremists who brutally tortured them and ordered them to confess allegiance to Islam or be killed, the Christian Post (CP) reports.
...continue reading this storyChristians faced major challenges in the northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) on Friday after at least eight people died and thirty were taken hostage in Islamist attacks on a Pentecostal church and other targets.
...continue reading this storyNicaragua’s Attorney General has charged three US missionaries and 11 Nicaraguan pastors with money laundering and organized crime, months after the Christians led large Gospel outreaches in the country, CBN News reports.
...continue reading this storyChristians in Pakistan are cautiously celebrating a major victory for religious freedom as the Pakistani government has decided that non-Muslim children will be exempt from previously required Islamic studies in school and will be able to study the Bible instead, the International Christian Concern (ICC) aid and advocacy organization reports.
...continue reading this storyAs the Islamic jihadist slaughter of Christians in Nigeria’s Middle Belt continues unabated and with impunity, suspected Fulani terrorists murdered five more Christians in Benue state on Jan. 18, just days after 10 Christians were murdered in the state on Jan. 7, Morning Star News (MSN) reports.
...continue reading this storyChristians in the Southeast African island country of Comoros are bracing for continued persecution as Sunni Muslim President Azali Assoumani was reelected in a disputed election earlier this month, the International Christian Concern aid and advocacy organization has reported. Catholic and Protestant Christians make up a tiny percentage of Comoros’ overwhelmingly Sunni Muslim population of less than one million people.
...continue reading this storyEritrea’s autocratic government has released hundreds of Christians, but some 300 remain behind bars for activities linked to faith in Christ, according to data seen by Worthy News on Monday.
...continue reading this storyThanks to Bible translators who risk their lives for the work, Christians who live under Iran’s hostile Islamic regime are now able to read the New Testament in 12 more of their nation’s 62 languages, Christianity Today reports.
...continue reading this storyFollowing the massacre of 160 mostly Christian civilians in Nigeria’s Plateau state at Christmas, radicalized Fulani herdsmen murdered at least 31 more Plateau Christians in coordinated attacks between Jan. 22-24, Morning Star News (MSN) reports.
...continue reading this storyIn further evidence of the increasing power and influence of Hindu nationalism in India, a crowd of young Hindutva activists climbed on top of four church buildings in Madhya Pradesh state, planting Hindu flags with an image of their god and chanting Hindu slogans, Newslaundry reports.
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