Envoys from five Nordic countries are meeting victims of India's worst anti-Christian violence in decades, which left over 100 people dead in the state of Orissa.
...continue reading this storyIran 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 storyIslamic militants have killed the leader of an underground church in Somalia's capital Mogadishu, a well-informed Christian rights group said Monday, November 16.
...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 storyA frail 79-year-old Irish Catholic priest, who was released after one month of captivity in the Philippines, denied Friday, November 13, that an Islamic rebel group had kidnapped him.
...continue reading this storyChristians already suffering of major flooding in the Indian state of Karnataka faced more difficulties Thursday November 12, amid fresh allegations that government aid is distributed mainly to "higher caste" Hindus.
...continue reading this storySvetlana Milchevich, an evangelical Christian who became a voice of the voiceless with her public fight against abuse of power and corruption by Ukrainian authorities, has died after officials refused to allow her to seek medical treatment in neighboring Hungary. She was 64.
...continue reading this storyProtestant Christians in the Pakistani hill town of Murree were without a major Christian education institution for girls Tuesday, November 10, after it was apparently torched by anti-Christian activists with authorities allegedly refusing to intervene.
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