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.
Christians and rights groups have expressed concern that Indonesia’s updated blasphemy law will favor Islam, the main religion in the world’s largest Muslim nation, at the expense of minority faiths.
Pakistani police have detained one suspected Islamic extremist and are searching for others over their alleged involvement in the killing of a devout Christian man in the country’s Punjab province, sources told Worthy News Friday.
Christians in Pakistan’s city of Jaranwala are still waiting for justice and government assistance more than two years after Muslim mobs rampaged through their community, an advocacy group told Worthy News Thursday.
A Chinese court in Inner Mongolia has upheld prison sentences against ten Christians convicted of illegally distributing Bibles, a case highlighting Beijing’s ongoing crackdown on unregistered house churches.
A Catholic priest has been shot and killed in southeastern Nigeria amid ongoing violence against clergy in the country, church officials say.
Sudan’s roughly two million Christians are among the hardest hit in the country’s devastating civil war, with some believers forced to eat animal feed and even grass to survive, according to Christian rights investigators.
Police in Pakistan have launched an investigation into a “brutal and cowardly” assassination attempt on a prominent Pentecostal pastor in Islamabad, the capital, at a time of rising persecution of Christians in the Muslim-majority nation, sources told Worthy News on Monday.
A chilling new documentary has highlighted the growing crisis for Christians in Nigeria, where investigators say more than three million believers face persecution from Islamic militants and other extremist groups.
Authorities in Indonesia’s Central Java Province have halted construction of a church and related tourism compound after pressure from local council members and Muslim groups amid rising anti-Christian incidents in the world’s largest Muslim-majority nation, sources confirmed Thursday.
A young Christian man is hiding in Pakistan after being falsely accused of making “blasphemous” comments against Islam, an offence that potentially carries the death penalty under the Islamic nation’s strict blasphemy legislation, Worthy News learned Thursday.
Suspected Islamist gunmen on motorbikes have killed at least 22 people in Niger, including about 15 at a baptism ceremony and seven more nearby, officials and witnesses said. In neighboring Nigeria, a Christian farmer in the Abuja area separately told Worthy News he miraculously escaped armed men raiding his land.