A church planter and his 3-year old son were murdered by Muslim Fulani herdsmen in Nigeria’s Niger state on May 21, International Christian Concern reports. Leviticus Makpa, 39, and his little boy Godsend are among the latest murder victims in a country which Gary L. Bauer of the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom described in April as a “killing field” for Christians.
A Christian woman of five says she has been rescued in Pakistan’s Punjab province after Muslims kidnapped and raped her for nearly three weeks.
A Chinese Reformed pastor serves 15 days of detention without trial for not obeying religious guidelines by the ruling Chinese Communist Party, well-informed Christians told Worthy News Thursday.
Algerian Christians are pleased that authorities returned a church building but remain concerned about a pastor and fellow Christian sentenced to two years in jail for “shaking the faith of Muslims.”
Muslim hardliners in eastern Uganda have reportedly torched the home of a Christian mother of five whose husband was already beheaded for his faith in Christ.
Terrified residents have fled areas in northern Burkina Faso after suspected Islamist militants killed 15 Christian converts at a baptism service, authorities and Christians say.
Nigerian Church leaders have appealed for more security after dozens of Christians were killed by Muslim nomadic herdsmen from the Fulani tribe and bandits.
Christian rights activists are concerned about tensions in Sudan, where at least 14 people were reportedly killed in recent violence in the disputed oil-rich region Abyei.
Christians in eastern India mourn the death of an evangelical pastor who was reportedly killed amid ongoing anti-Christian violence in the Hindu-majority nation.
Four civilians were killed and eight more injured in an attack by Myanmar’s ruling army on a Catholic Church in the east of the troubled nation, leading junta opponents said Monday.
Fifteen Christians were shot dead during a suspected jihadist attack on a baptismal ceremony in the Oudalan province of Burkina Faso on May 18, International Christian Concern reports. No group has claimed responsibility, but Al Qaeda and ISIS have been increasingly active in West Africa.
Chinese authorities have detained a Vatican-appointed Catholic bishop, his seven priests, and several seminarians amid a new crackdown on the underground Catholic Church in the Communist nation, Catholic sources said Tuesday.
Suspected Muslim Fulani herdsmen and bandits have killed five Christians, including a priest, in central and northern Nigeria, while another priest has been kidnapped, church officials say.
A devoted Chinese pastor of a banned evangelical church hospitalized after being assaulted by police in southwest China, Christians familiar with the situation told Worthy News Monday.
Nigeria is a “killing field” of Christians, and is headed toward Christian genocide, Commissioner Gary L. Bauer says in the Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) 2021 annual report, ICC reported. Islamic militants are primarily responsible for killing 1,470 Christians in Nigeria in the first four months of this year alone.
A report has been submitted to the UN Human Rights Committee about the persecution of Protestant Christians in Turkey, and about restrictions imposed against foreign Christians in the country, International Christian Concern reported Sunday.
The US Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) has reported that China’s communist dictatorial regime continues to harass, detain and imprison Catholics and Protestants who refuse to participate in respective state-approved religious associations, CNS News reports. According to the 2021 USCIRF report, this treatment of Christians in China is part of the government’s “sinicization” effort to mix Christianity with communism.
The Canadian pastor who has been confronted repeatedly by law enforcement officials claimed over the weekend the garage at his private resident was set ablaze by arsonists.
Christians worldwide demand the release of a young woman held captive for more than three years by Islamic militants in Nigeria because she refuses to renounce her faith in Christ.
A Saudi man who abandoned Islam and turned to faith in Christ has a court hearing in Saudi Arabia while his wife is pressured to leave him, Christians told Worthy News.