Christian Persecution
Prime Minister Theresa May condemned the death penalty but made no mention of religious freedom and did not condemn Pakistan’s “blasphemy” laws, in her first response to the Supreme Court exoneration of Aasia Bibi. Conservative Parliamentarian ...
Pakistan’s Supreme Court verdict, acquitting Aasia Bibi of false charges of ‘blasphemy, is in many respects a very courageous verdict. Pakistan is a country where the mere accusation of blasphemy is enough to warrant a ...
A plan by the Canadian state of Quebec to prohibit people in positions of authority wearing religious symbols at work has received widespread condemnation, even from liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. The ban on the display ...
Kurdish militia closed down four Christian schools in north-east Syria on 28 August, the latest of a number of acts apparently targeting Christian ethnic minorities in the region. The self-proclaimed administration of the Kurdish YPG militia, ...
The Kurds have been maligned and subjugated throughout their history, but the perception that Christians in Iraq and Syria today live safely as equal citizens in Kurdish-controlled areas is a myth. Many individual Kurds are welcoming ...
“The Muslim government is trying to drive us Christians out of Jos. This is why it does not lift a finger to stop the killing.” An Anglican priest told me this yesterday, summing up what ...
This week, a historic meeting took place in US President Trump’s meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. President Trump has already hailed the summit as “great progress” towards the stated US aims of nuclear ...
Sunday witnessed Indonesia’s worst church bombing for many years when three churches in Indonesia’s second largest city, Surabaya were bombed, killing at least 13 with more than 40 wounded. Initial reports suggest that the main attack ...
A stormfront involving radical Islamist terrorist groups has been gathering in Niger over the years since the killing of Gadhafi which resulted in the destabilization of Libya and the consequent movement of Islamic State (IS) ...
On the afternoon of Easter Sunday 2016, an Islamist suicide attacker detonated a bomb in Gulshan Iqbal Park, Lahore. The bombing was targeted at Christian families who had gathered in the park to celebrate Easter. Seventy-four ...
