Christian children in southern India were beaten by Hindu extremists and the congregation of which their families are a part framed for forced conversions on Jan. 19, as radical groups continue to pressure police to prosecute believers.
...continue reading this storyIslamic militants allied with ISIS attacked Christian villages in the Democratic Republic of Congo on Tuesday, Jan. 28, killing 36 people as part of their declared intention to create a caliphate in North and South Kivu provinces.
...continue reading this storyA pastor in Wuhan, China, where the coronavirus outbreak is at its worst, penned a letter on Jan. 23 addressed to Christians everywhere seeking to describe the trial believers in Wuhan are enduring.
...continue reading this storyMore believers were killed in Plateau State, Nigeria by Fulani herdsmen on Jan. 26 and Jan. 27 in separate attacks on predominantly Christian villages by the Muslim ethnic group, which has committed itself to exterminating Christians from the country and taking their lands.
...continue reading this storyChina is cracking down on Christian weddings and funerals, meaning that believers are 'persecuted even after death,' according to one villager in Henan province whose family was forced by the government to hold a secular funeral for his believing father.
...continue reading this storyThirteen young Christian men defending their cattle in Nigeria where murdered by Muslim Fulani herders, who have vowed to execute any Christian 'infidel' caught possessing livestock.
...continue reading this storyOne Rohingya Christian is missing and 12--several of whom are children--are seriously injured after Muslims of the famously persecuted ethnic group from Myanmar assaulted the small Christian enclave within the refugee community in Bangladesh.
...continue reading this storyProtestant churches are facing 'systemic closure' in Algeria, according to Open Doors USA, under a 2006 law that bans non-Muslim worship without prior approval from a government-appointed committee--a committee that hasn't even convened yet.
...continue reading this storyBetween 10 and 50 people were killed in northern Burkina Faso Sunday, as a refugee crisis from Islamic attacks on the country's Christian population has already created 530,000 displaced persons in the West African country.
...continue reading this storyA mob of Hindu nationalists attacked a church prayer meeting in West Bengal, India on Dec. 27, destroying the pastor's car, smashing church windows and sound equipment, and forcing believers to flee the scene.
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