Middle East and North Africa
Two Christians were killed by an armed policeman who was assigned to guard an Egyptian church. Rabie Mostafa Khalifa shot dead two churchgoers on 12 December and was referred to the criminal court over the premeditated ...
Two Christian sisters were allegedly subjected to physical assaults after their arrest by plain-clothes Iranian security forces on 2 December. The two Christian converts, Shima (27) and Shokoofeh (30), were arrested when the security officers raided ...
Egyptian President al-Sisi gave an important message of support to Egyptian Christians last week with an order that all new housing projects must contain churches. In a speech at the opening of a new government housing ...
Security authorities discovered explosives hidden in buckets of cheese smuggled into Lebanon foiling Islamic State (IS) plans to attack Christians. IS jihadis had intended to target places of worship and gatherings of Christians to “cause chaos” ...
Local Muslims pelted stones at the homes of Christians in an Egyptian village the day after the Christian community had held the first service in their new church building. The attackers were urged on by calls ...
One Christian family a month is leaving the southern Iraqi city of Basra in the face of violence and increasing tension on the streets. Only 10 per cent of the 3,000-strong Christian community remains in Basra, ...
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 ...
