The U.S. Department of War is stepping up efforts to protect Christians in Nigeria after President Donald Trump directed military leaders to focus on terrorist networks targeting believers in the West African nation, War Secretary Pete Hegseth said Wednesday.
Armenian Christian leaders and global religious freedom advocates are condemning Azerbaijan after satellite imagery confirmed the demolition of two Armenian churches in Stepanakert, the capital of Nagorno-Karabakh, a region Armenians have long called Artsakh.
A Christian teenager died Wednesday after he and another Christian were shot by suspected Muslim gunmen in northwestern Pakistan, sparking fear among local believers, investigators told Worthy News.
Investigations were ongoing Sunday into the killing of three senior Kuki-Thadou Christian church leaders by unidentified gunmen in India’s northeastern Manipur State, Christian investigators told Worthy News.
Several Syrians who converted from Islam to Christianity while staying at a Dutch asylum seekers’ center in the southwestern port city of Vlissingen were threatened after publicly professing their faith through baptism, church leaders and politicians said.
A 79-year-old Protestant missionary remains missing in southern Mexico more than six weeks after armed men reportedly abducted him while he was preaching and distributing Bibles in Guerrero State, according to Christian Solidarity Worldwide.
A Wall Street Journal exclusive is drawing renewed attention to the imprisonment of Pastor Ezra Jin, the founder of Beijing’s Zion Church, whose arrest has become a flashpoint in China’s intensifying campaign against unregistered Christian congregations.
Evangelist Franklin Graham said Sunday that “God did a miracle” in Belarus after he held what organizers described as the largest evangelical Christian gathering in the country’s modern history and met authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko.
Dozens of students remained missing Friday after suspected Islamist militants attacked a school in Nigeria’s insurgency-ravaged northeastern state of Borno, officials and residents said.
Pakistan’s hardline Islamist party and movement, Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP), has been accused of involvement in a massive “blasphemy business” scheme targeting Christians and other Pakistanis charged under the country’s controversial blasphemy laws, despite being banned by the government.
Christians and rights campaigners in Pakistan have demanded “a transparent investigation” into the death of a Christian brick kiln worker allegedly poisoned by a Muslim resident in the country’s east, while another Christian laborer was killed in a separate case.
Hungary’s former state secretary responsible for aiding persecuted Christians expects the new government of Prime Minister Péter Magyar to continue a mission that he says helped save “tens of thousands of human lives” around the world.
More than 100 new evangelical churches have reportedly opened and thousands of people have been baptized in Ukraine since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of the country in February 2022, church leaders say.
Pakistan’s Federal Constitutional Court ordered a 15-year-old Christian girl to be moved to a government shelter after allegations that she was forcibly converted to Islam and married to an older Muslim man, a Christian advocate told Worthy News.
Suspected Muslim Fulani herdsmen killed at least 13 Christians, including three pregnant women, in Nigeria’s central Plateau state days after a pastor and his family were slain in a separate attack, Christians told Worthy News on Monday.
Three Greek Catholic parishes can no longer continue operating legally in autocratically ruled Belarus after their mandatory applications for “re-registration” were rejected by a regional court, well-informed Christians told Worthy News.
Some 24 Eritrean Christians have been released from prison after lengthy periods behind bars in the authoritarian-ruled African nation, advocates confirmed Friday.
China has freed the last two church leaders detained for nearly four years following a controversial police raid on a Christian gathering, amid ongoing concerns over religious persecution.
Authorities in Indonesia’s South Sulawesi province have halted construction of a Christian prayer house after Muslim residents erected protest banners opposing the project, amid growing pressure on churches in the world’s largest Muslim-majority nation, Christians said Wednesday.
Christian survivors were mourning and recovering from injuries Wednesday after suspected Islamic Fulani herdsmen attacked three predominantly Christian villages in central Nigeria’s Plateau State, killing at least 11 Christians and wounding five others, residents said.