Christians in India are bracing themselves for more of the same after Prime Minister Narendra Modi was elected to another five-year term last Thursday, having garnered a 303-seat parliamentary majority—a 31-seat gain from his initial election in 2014.
...continue reading this storyChristians at Praise the Lord Church in Kanjapalli, a village in India’s persecution-ridden Tamil Nadu state, were ruthlessly attacked by a mob of Hindu radicals on May 3rd, following an identical instance of mob violence in February in which the church was told to close its doors.
...continue reading this storySeventeen people were abducted by Islamic Herdsmen militias in Dankande Village of Nigeria’s Kaduna State Sunday in a perpetuation of violence against Christians that has seen five similar incursions in the last few months.
...continue reading this storyTwo Christians in the northern Iranian city of Rasht had their sentences upheld after losing their cases in an Iranian court of appeals.
...continue reading this story"Christianity’s Enormous Harm on China’s Security" is the title of the most recent seminar held by party officials of the Chinese communist party, which took place in Henan last month amidst Xi Jinping’s campaign to assimilate all Chinese house churches into the communist-controlled Three-Self Patriotic Movement (TSPM).
...continue reading this storyRoughly 80 percent of people who suffer persecution for their faith are Christian according to a recently released report issued by the British government.
...continue reading this storyChristians in Burkina Faso are mourning a deadly attack on a Protestant church as 'a new turning point in terrorism' in the West African nation.
...continue reading this storyU.K. Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt pledged support from his country for war-torn Nigeria on Wednesday, where the Boko Haram arm of the Islamic State has massacred countless scores of Christians.
...continue reading this storyThe United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) released its annual report Monday, detailing religious rights abuses around the world and recommending state actors for the U.S. State Department to earmark as “Countries of Particular Concern” (CPCs).
...continue reading this storyTwo separate attacks in Cameroon’s Far North region, both by Boko Haram, have claimed the lives of 18 people.
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