A High Court in Pakistan has judged that Muslim men may marry underage Christian girls as long as they have had their first menstrual cycle, contravening an earlier law that forbade marriage for any girl under the age of 18 in the face of widespread abductions.
A Nigerian professor-turned-politician claimed last week that Boko Haram has created nearly 120,000 orphans and widows since it began its onslaught against Christians in the West African nation.
A persecuted Christian from Iran who escaped to Switzerland detailed the conditions believers are facing in the Islamic Republic at the Family Research Council Wednesday, telling a story of how her father was told by God to hand their church over to the government.
A group of Christians in Pakistan accused of killing two Muslims in 2015 in riots that followed Taliban suicide bombings on churches were acquitted last week after paying ‘blood money’ to the victim families.
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.
Islamic 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.
A 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.
More 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.
China 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.
Thirteen 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.
One 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.
Protestant 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.
Between 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.
A 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.
More deaths of Christians at the hands of Muslim Fulani herdsmen in Nigeria occurred in December and January, totaling 16 murders by the armed pastoralists that included one woman and her baby daughter.
Hindu extremists attacked a house church pastor at the beginning of January who had been working as a day-laborer to provide for his wife and small children, but now he can barely walk, sustaining not only crippling injuries from the beatings, but also false accusations of bribing people to convert.
The Christian Association of Nigeria issued a damning indictment this week of the Nigerian government’s failure to save its leader, who was kidnapped in early January and executed by Boko Haram on Monday.
A 65-year-old Iranian Christian man was sentenced to three years in prison by the regime for ‘insulting Islamic sacred beliefs.’
Two Nigerian high school-aged Christian girls were killed in southern Kaduna state last week by Fulani herdsmen, an armed Muslim group, ahead of the killing of one of the biggest Christian leaders in Nigeria on Monday by Boko Haram.
Islamic State militants killed a Christian college student in Nigeria returning to his studies at the local university, posting a video of the execution online.