Malaysia’s highest court has ruled that Christians converting from Islam cannot change their officially registered religion without permission from a sharia court, effectively leaving converts open to being prosecuted for apostasy. The court ruled against four ...
The cousin of a Christian teenager arrested for “blasphemy” was beaten by Lahore police and ordered to perform a sex act on his relative when he was brought in for questioning. He jumped out of a fourth-floor ...
A group of Iranian Christian refugees have been given two weeks to leave Austria after the US government denied their asylum applications in a move that appears to signal the shutting down of a humanitarian programme ...
Al-Shabaab militants murdered three Christians in an attack on a primary school compound in the village of Qarsa, north-east Kenya on 16 February. Armed men forced their way into a house within the compound of ...
Bangladeshi Christians from the Garo ethnic minority held a protest in Dhaka on 17 February after the property of a Christian family of five was seized by a mob. The family were evicted from their home ...
Patras Masih, a 16-year-old Christian from Lahore, has been arrested and charged with “blasphemy” by Pakistani police, after an allegedly insulting post appeared on a Facebook group page under his name. He was charged after ...
The presence of Iranian-backed Shia militia in Mosul means Christian do not feels safe, more than seven months since the city was liberated from Islamic State. “The city was liberated by the Iraqi army, which ...
Indian Christians experienced at least 350 incidents of hate or targeted violence in 2017, including 110 physical attacks, according to data compiled by the Evangelical Fellowship of India, which described the year as “one of ...
Christianity is Europe’s “last hope”, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said in a speech on Sunday (18 February), claiming European politicians have “opened the way to the decline of Christian culture and the advance of Islam.” In his ...
Officials in the central Chinese province of Hunan issued a 20,000 Yuan ($3,000) fine to a village church and ordered the congregation to take down a cross and put up a Chinese flag. Local officials claim ...