Middle East and North Africa
A group of Iranian Christians were arrested this week for “promoting Christianity”, according to a report by an Iranian news agency. The group, described in the report as a “gang of Zionist evangelicals”, allegedly had ...
A Muslim extremist wielding an iron bar in one hand and holding a Quran in the other, assaulted church staff last month when he broke into an eastern Cairo Church. The 22-year-old man launched his early ...
Egyptian President al-Sisi’s government has continued its process of legalisation by approving 168 locations on 30 November 2018. This follows a series of approvals of Christian places of worship in September and October, bringing the total ...
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 ...
Iraqi churches destroyed in the three year occupation of Mosul by the terror group Islamic state are now being rebuilt and restored by the govenrment of Iraq . The governor of the historically strongly Christian ...
A raid on a house church resulted in the arrest and torture of 13 converts from Islam on 13 October in South Darfur, Sudan. Security officials entered a house in the city of Nyala, known as ...
Seven were killed and 19 injured in a terror attack on three buses carrying Egyptian Christians on Friday 2 October. The buses were travelling to well-known Christian historical site near Minya. Six of the seven murdered ...
Four Algerian Christians from the same family are scheduled to appear in court on 6 November on charges of “inciting a Muslim to change religion”. In July 2018, a 40-year-old Muslim woman whose husband converted to ...
Sudanese officials raided a house church in South Darfur, Sudan on 13 October, arrested 13 Christians and subjected converts from Islam to a day and night of torture. Security agents entered a house in the ...
Turkish authorities arrested another American Christian worker on 13 October, days after Andrew Brunson’s release. David Byle, who has lived for the past 18 years in Turkey was arrested on 13 October during a routine ID ...
