Middle East and North Africa
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 ...
A teacher responsible for Christian schools in Qamishli, north-east Syria, survived a vicious assault with baseball bats outside his home, days after meeting with Kurdish representatives who forcibly closed Christian schools in August. On 22 September ...
An Iranian Christian student imprisoned for protests against the government, suffered a heart attack earlier this month after a prison beating. Karen Vartanian, suffered a heart attack after a prison beating was transferred from Fashafiyah ...
Nine civilians from the Christian-majority Syrian town of Mhardeh died on Friday, 7 September, when shells or rockets fired from a rebel-controlled region hit built up areas. According to local sources, a further 20 people were ...
An Iranian Christian whose father, mother and brother have all been handed jail terms has spoken out against their verdicts. Ahead of a planned legal appeal, Dabrina Bet Tamraz stated, “My father and mother have ...
