Prime Minister Imran Khan announced that Pakistan will lead an international campaign against religious “defamation” on 20 November, in an apparent attempt to place his administration at the forefront of efforts to counter Islamic “blasphemy” worldwide. ...
Mosques in Indonesia’s capital Jakarta are preaching extremism and encouraging congregations, many of whom are government workers, to join Islamic State. An investigation of 1,000 mosques by Indonesian intelligence services discovered 41 in one neighbourhood “preaching ...
At least 350 Christian-owned homes in Iraq have been stolen, according to an investigation by an Iraqi television network. The properties of hundreds of Christians who have fled the country have been occupied or seized. The ...
Aasia Bibi’s plight has attracted attention around the globe with an increasing number of politicians speaking out on her behalf. More than 230 politicians from 28 countries have written an open letter to Pakistani Prime ...
The number of violent mob attacks on churches and arrests of Christians on false charges is accelerating at a dramatic pace in Uttar Pradesh, India’s most populous state, according to a report by the Evangelical ...
A regional governor has given 20 Christian families one month to leave their village in northern Laos or face jail after claiming Christianity is a “foreign religion”. Despite local church leaders pointing out that Christianity ...
Four Christians were reported to the police and arrested in early November near Kathmandu charged with breaking Nepal’s strict anti-conversion laws. It was alleged that the individuals, two of them Japanese nationals, had been “proselytising” door-to-door, ...
Could China’s ‘social scoring’ experiment which brings new surveillance and supervision to an already restricted society, also lead to further persecution of Christians. Under the slogan, “once untrustworthy, always restricted” China’s planned AI (artificial intelligence) controlled “social ...
Chin Christians stripped of refugee status, may be forced to return to face persecution in Myanmar. Ethnic Chin, mainly Christian refugees scattered across Malaysia and India have lost their refugee status and are faced with returning ...
Direct threats of violence against two Kenyan missionary couples and their five children have forced the families to evacuate from north-east Kenya last week. Threats of an imminent attack were made against the missionaries who ...