Christians on Wednesday urged prayers for the “swift and safe release” of three church members in northeastern Vietnam, including a Catholic priest, after security forces reportedly detained them during a home worship service.
Christians expressed concern Tuesday after Uttarakhand approved India’s most severe anti-conversion legislation, prescribing life imprisonment and steep fines for what the Hindu nationalist-ruled state calls “forced conversions.”
A 16-year-old Christian girl in Pakistan has been rescued after she was allegedly abducted by a Muslim man who forced her to convert to Islam, marry him in a sham ceremony, and endure months of abuse, rights advocates said.
Christians in Pakistan’s Punjab province were reeling Sunday from fresh threats by suspected Islamic extremists following the murder of a manual worker they said was killed for his faith in Christ.
A Muslim who said he abandoned Islam and “put his faith in Christ” after experiencing a vision in a mosque in eastern Uganda has been hospitalized after relatives beat him, demolished his home, and abducted his wife and six children, Christians said Wednesday.
Christian activists are demanding justice after a farm worker was shot dead in Pakistan’s Punjab province, allegedly by men linked to a Muslim landowner, in a killing that underscores ongoing attacks against religious minorities in the Islamic nation.
Rights activists say local authorities in Indonesia’s West Java province have shut down a Christian prayer house and evicted its evangelist leader, underscoring broader concerns about religious freedom in the world’s largest Muslim-majority nation.
Christian advocacy groups are intensifying calls for Eritrea to release seven church leaders who have been held without trial for more than two decades.
Church leaders are raising alarm as thefts, arson, and vandalism against Christian sites surge across Europe, with France at the center of a disturbing trend. Violence against Christians has also increased across the continent, Worthy News learned.
Pakistani Christians urged prayers Thursday after police reportedly detained some 80 Christian villagers, including children, in Pakistan’s Punjab province on disputed “terrorism” charges.
A new report by the International Society for Civil Liberties and the Rule of Law (Intersociety) warns that Nigeria has become the headquarters for 22 Islamic terrorist groups operating across Africa. According to the organization, these groups are working in concert to eradicate Christianity and indigenous cultural traditions within the country, with the long-term goal of imposing a sultanate–a form of Islamic rule led by a sultan, in which political authority and religious leadership are fused under Islamic law.
A Christian laborer forced to work in Pakistan’s harsh brick kiln industry is recovering after falling victim to an organ trafficking scheme “that ignited outrage” across the nation, according to an investigation shared with Worthy News.
Church leaders in Haiti expressed concern Sunday about the kidnapping of nine people, including an Irish missionary and a child with disabilities, as violence spreads throughout the Caribbean nation.
Militants allied with the Islamic State group (ISIS) are carrying out brutal attacks against Christians in central and southern Africa, including mass killings often through beheadings, as well as the destruction of churches and homes, investigators say. Advocacy groups and international officials warn of a growing crisis that they suggest is ignored by much of the world.
Predominantly Muslim Fulani herdsmen have reportedly killed a Christian woman in a village in Nigeria’s Plateau State—the latest of 17 Christians slain in the area since July 15, local sources said Tuesday.
An evangelical pastor who spent two years under house arrest in Iran for his Christian faith has urged U.S. President Donald J. Trump to halt the deportation of Iranian Christians, warning they could face imprisonment or even execution for abandoning Islam.
Nabeel Masih, a young Christian man detained in 2016 in Pakistan for “blasphemy” against Islam, has died after years of suffering, imprisonment, and medical neglect, a representative told Worthy News Friday.
“A brutal assault” on a Christian sanitation worker in Pakistan’s Punjab province has highlighted discrimination and violence against impoverished minority laborers across the Islamic nation, investigators say.
A Christian ceremony to bless farm crops in India’s eastern Odisha state turned into “a brutal assault,” leaving at least 30 Christians injured, 10 of whom were hospitalized with critical wounds, Christians said Thursday.
A horrific massacre unfolded Sunday in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), where Islamic State-affiliated jihadists beheaded at least 49 Christians–nine of them children–during a church service in the village of Komanda. The attackers, members of the notorious Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), stormed a church where believers had gathered from surrounding villages to celebrate a Silver Jubilee and to pray for peace amid ongoing violence.