Suspected Islamic militants attacked three churches in northern Nigeria Sunday, June 17, killing dozens of people and injuring over 100 others an evangelist and Worthy News reporter said, citing officials.
Cuban church leaders recently asked the U.S. government to put their country on its list of the world’s worst violators of religious freedoms.
...continue reading this storyTalk show host Tawfiq Okasha recently appeared on "Egypt Today" by showing a video of Muslims beheading a man for the Islamic crime of apostasy: the "crime" of converting to Christianity and then refusing to renounce that conversion.
...continue reading this storyPolice investigations continued Monday, June 11, into the reasons behind the murder of a Protestant pastor in southern India and the destruction of a church in the north where hundreds of Christians have reportedly fled their homes, Worthy News monitored.
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Islamic group Boko Haram claimed responsibility Sunday, June 10, for bombing a church and spraying another congregation with bullets in Nigeria's troubled northern and central region, killing at least seven people, including a suicide bomber and injuring over 40 others.
Evangelical Christians in Iran's capital Tehran were without a church building Sunday, June 10, after Iranian security forces closed it down as part of a wider crackdown, Iranian Christians and activists told Worthy News.
Police in northern Laos have detained a pastor "for attracting people to the Christian faith" as part of a wider crackdown on evangelism in the region, a representative told Worthy News Saturday, June 9.
...continue reading this storySaudi officials have been making conflicting statements as to why 35 Ethiopian Christians were arrested at a prayer service in a private home in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, last December.
...continue reading this storyHundreds of Muslims set fire to two churches during protests in Zanzibar last weekend in response to the arrest of senior members of their Islamist movement, police told Reuters.
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The Center for Human Rights Education expressed deep concern about the numerous threats to the lives of human rights defenders in Pakistan.