Islamic militants have killed scores of Christians in Mozambique in recent weeks, including more than 30 believers who were found beheaded, while numerous churches and homes were burned down, leaving thousands displaced, Worthy News established Monday.
American evangelist Franklin Graham urged prayers Friday after “a missionary pilot” with the evangelical Christian organization Serving in Mission (SIM) was abducted in the West African nation of Niger.
A Protestant pastor in Kyrgyzstan who was reportedly tortured by secret police has suffered traumatic brain injuries and lasting cognitive impairment, according to his family, doctors, and United Nations experts cited by rights monitors.
Two San Antonio pastors are speaking out after their churches were vandalized over the weekend amid nationwide “No Kings” protests targeting the Trump administration.
Authorities are investigating two suspected arson attacks on churches in a small North Carolina town after fires were deliberately set late Friday night.
Barnabas Aid, a major Christian charity, says it will host a worldwide prayer event for millions of Christians facing persecution for their faith.
Turkey has deported hundreds of foreign Christians citing “national security” concerns as part of a broader crackdown by the Muslim-majority nation, several investigators confirmed.
Christians and human rights activists in Pakistan have sounded the alarm over what they call a new wave of persecution, including church closures, violent evictions, and economic exploitation of Christian families.
The Trump administration has condemned China’s latest crackdown on unregistered Christian churches after the arrest of Pastor Mingri “Ezra” Jin, founder of the Beijing Zion Church, and at least 30 other church leaders across six provinces.
A Christian father of four daughters has been found dead in a garbage dumping site in Pakistan’s northeastern city of Sialkot, Christians told Worthy News.
Christians in more than 20 villages in central India were without the possibility to bury their loved ones in a dignified way on Thursday after Hindu nationalists reportedly stripped them of that right as part of a crackdown on spreading Christianity.
The “brutal killing of Shamron Masih,” a mentally disabled Christian man in the Motra area of Pakistan’s Sialkot district, has sparked “widespread outrage across Pakistan’s Christian community,” Christian human rights investigators said Wednesday.
More than 30 Christians have been brutally executed in northern Mozambique in a wave of attacks carried out by Islamic State-affiliated militants targeting Christian villages, churches, and homes, according to local reports and monitoring groups.
Armed assailants in north-central Nigeria killed a local pastor after abducting him and collecting ransom payments from his rural community, highlighting a growing wave of kidnappings terrorizing Kwara State.
A Christian man who was released last week after 13 years in a Pakistani prison on false charges of blasphemy against Islam has died, his supporters told Worthy News Monday.
A Christian pastor has become the first person to be acquitted under the “anti-conversion” law of India’s state of Uttarakhand after a four-year legal battle, Christian sources confirmed Thursday.
Islamists are trying to take over a Christian school in Sudan despite hundreds of people displaced by war seeking refuge there, Christians said Thursday.
Civil society groups in Rajasthan are raising alarm over a sharp rise in attacks on Christians just weeks after the state assembly passed one of India’s harshest anti-conversion bills.
Authorities in eastern China have carried out one of the largest crackdowns on unregistered Christian churches in recent years, arresting more than 70 people in a sweeping operation targeting Bible study groups and house church gatherings, according to Open Doors.
Devout Chinese Christians seeking to spread the Gospel online face new challenges after the Communist government banned such expressions as part of a crackdown on the spread of religion through the internet.