Two Christians were killed by an armed policeman who was assigned to guard an Egyptian church. Rabie Mostafa Khalifa shot dead two churchgoers on 12 December and was referred to the criminal court over the premeditated ...
Two Christian sisters were allegedly subjected to physical assaults after their arrest by plain-clothes Iranian security forces on 2 December. The two Christian converts, Shima (27) and Shokoofeh (30), were arrested when the security officers raided ...
Egyptian President al-Sisi gave an important message of support to Egyptian Christians last week with an order that all new housing projects must contain churches. In a speech at the opening of a new government housing ...
Security authorities discovered explosives hidden in buckets of cheese smuggled into Lebanon foiling Islamic State (IS) plans to attack Christians. IS jihadis had intended to target places of worship and gatherings of Christians to “cause chaos” ...
Young Christian converts from Islam offered to pray for their persecutors who threatened them as they worshipped in secret in Uzbekistan, according to sources close to the persecuted church agency, Barnabas Fund. Eighteen people thought ...
UN peacekeepers were this week accused of standing by while “Muslim Union of Peace” militants opened fire on a group of Christians taking shelter near a church in the south-east Central African Republic. Three people, including ...
The US added Pakistan to a list of countries which have “engaged in or tolerated systematic, ongoing, (and) egregious violations of religious freedom” this week. The Ambassador at Large for International Religious Freedom, Sam Brownback, cited ...
Local Muslims pelted stones at the homes of Christians in an Egyptian village the day after the Christian community had held the first service in their new church building. The attackers were urged on by calls ...
Twitter’s Legal Department has sent me an Email informing me that I have broken Pakistan’s Law. I have attached the Tweet in question, so judge for yourselves. I am not from Pakistan nor am I ...
A terrorist gunman shouting opened fire on shoppers at crowded Christmas market in Strasbourg France killing two, leaving one brain-dead and injuring 12. The gunment shouted “Allahu Akbar” as he carried out his attack. France remains ...