Europe
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 ...
Five women have been killed in an Islamist terror attack on a church in the Caucasus region of Dagestan. A gunman, armed with a hunting rifle and a knife, opened fire on worshippers as they left ...
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 ...
A coalition of Christian groups this week launched a petition asking the UK Parliament to protect hard-won religious rights that are at risk. They claimed that religious freedom is being significantly eroded and a new law ...
German police recorded 97 hate crimes against Christians in 2017, fourteen of which were “violent anti-Christian crimes” among asylum seekers and refugees. Christian asylum seekers and refugees have reported being abused and even attacked for their ...
The European Union is understood to be potentially planning to force Iraqi asylum seekers, among them Christians, to return, despite potential threats and calls for leniency from the Iraqi government. Among those facing deportation is ...
Christian convert refugees seeking asylum in Austria are being asked “absurdly difficult” questions on theology and Church doctrine by authorities in order to “prove” their conversion, say Austrian church leaders. Converts have been asked complex questions ...
Prince Charles has condemned the “barbaric persecution” of Christians in the Middle East, describing the pain and suffering being endured by Christians because of their faith as “heartbreaking beyond words.” Addressing the Melkite Greek Catholic ...
A Baptist worshipper in Azerbaijan is facing demands to pay a fine by the end of the year for meeting for worship without state permission in December 2016. A Baptist pastor who was fined alongside him ...
Baptist Christians in Belarus have been repeatedly fined by the court in Lepel since mid-October for public singing and offering Christian literature to passers-by. A complaint has been made that the police have been too rough ...
