The Synagogue Church of all Nations (SCOAN), one of the world’s largest Christian evangelical churches, denied Tuesday that its late founder was involved in widespread abuse and torture.
Suspected Fulani Islamic jihadists slaughtered 41 Christians and kidnapped numerous others in Nigeria’s Kaduna state on Jan. 3, Morning Star News (MSN) reports.
Belarus observed Orthodox Christmas Day amid fears of a massive crackdown on primarily Protestant churches after the country’s autocratic President Alexander Lukashenko signed controversial legislation.
After Islamic terrorists murdered 21 more Christians in Nigeria’s Taraba state last month, two Nigerian lawmakers have called on the federal government to take action to protect Christian communities against relentless murderous attacks by jihadist groups, Christian Daily International-Morning Star News (MSN) reports.
A church leader in Sri Lanka has been granted bail after spending a month in prison pending trial on a charge of “outraging” the “religious feelings” of Buddhist, Hindu and Islamic communities in a sermon he gave that was posted online, Morning Star News (MSN) reports.
An evangelical church leader imprisoned in Sichuan province, China, on charges of fraud, insists he is innocent and has refused to accept the prosecution’s offer to release him if he would just plead guilty, China Aid reports.
Local Christians are thanking God as Mauritania authorities have now released 15 believers who were arrested after video footage of their participation in a baptismal ceremony in November triggered local Muslims to demand their imprisonment on the grounds of illegal proselytization, Morning Star News (MSN) reports.
The Boko Haram Islamic jihadist terror group killed two Christians during a murderous rampage through a predominantly Christian village in Nigeria’s Adamawa state on Christmas Day, Morning Star News (MSN) reports.
As swathes of Africa succumb to Islamic jihadist terrorists intent on slaughtering Christians and other “infidels,” members of the Islamic-State affiliated Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) murdered 10 Christians in western Uganda on Dec. 19, Morning Star News reports.
Christians said Saturday that a woman who turned to faith in Christ has been murdered in eastern Uganda by her Muslim son.
Nigeria’s president has ordered a “manhunt” for suspected Islamic fighters who killed up to 160 Christians on Christmas Eve in the nation’s central Plateau state, forcing thousands to flee their homes.
Fifteen churches in Canada have been subjected to suspicious fires this year, with four being burned in Alberta alone during the run-up to Christmas, Post Millennial (PM) reports. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police has been investigating the incidents.
Islamic terrorists slaughtered at least 160 Christians in Nigeria’s Plateau state during “well-coordinated” genocidal attacks carried out from Saturday night through Christmas Day, Morning Star News (MSN) reports.
China’s governing Communist Party has instructed state-approved Christian church organizations that they must “strictly” manage their religious affairs in a manner that emphasizes their identification with the Chinese communist government and with Chinese culture and nationalism, the South China Morning Post (SCMP) reports.
A US military veteran who was shot in the head while street preaching in Arizona last month is making such remarkable steps toward recovery that his wife has described them as “miracles,” CBN News reports.
Authorities in the Islamic Republic of Mauritania arrested 15 Christian leaders and their families earlier this month after a video showing a local baptismal service was leaked and circulated, International Christian Concern (ICC) reports.
Rights advocates are calling for Indonesia’s blasphemy laws to be amended or revoked, as the number of Islamic fatwas and arrests for blasphemy against Islam have increased at an alarming rate, Morning Star News (MSN) reports.
Although Christianity is constitutionally legal in Uganda, two Evangelists who preached the Gospel to Muslims in the East African country are now in prison awaiting trial for blasphemy against Islam, Morning Star News (MSN) reports.
Worryingly, Christian refugees from the Vietnamese Hmong and Montagnard minority groups are now facing arrests and harassment from officials in Thailand, where they have come seeking refuge from persecution in Vietnam, International Christian Concern (ICC) reports.
Fulani Islamic terrorists killed eight more Christians in Nigeria’s Plateau state last month, Morning Star News (MSN) reports. Nigeria leads the world for the number of Christians murdered on account of their faith: well over 50,000 have been slaughtered since the Boko Haram Islamist insurgency in 2009.