Middle East and North Africa
Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, declared that Turkey has “no problems” with religious minorities, after historic Christian communities released a joint statement that authorities allow them to freely practice their beliefs. Human rights observers argue that Protestant Christians ...
Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, declared that Turkey has “no problems” with religious minorities, after historic Christian communities released a joint statement that authorities allow them to freely practice their beliefs. But Protestant Christians in Turkey continue ...
Tight security foiled an attempted suicide attack on a church in Mostorod, north of Cairo, on Saturday 11 August 2018. Security around the church prevented the terrorist from infiltrating a group of worshippers. The bomber then ...
Mobs of Muslim youths burned and looted churches in the eastern Ethiopian city of Jijiga on Saturday 4 Augus, according to persecuted church agency, Barnabas Fund. Three Protestant churches were ransacked and the Ethiopian Orthodox ...
An American pastor, Andrew Brunson, will be released from a Turkish prison where he has been held, after a diplomatic push by president Donald Trump who is said to have played a critical role in ...
Iranian Christian Ramiel Bet Tamraz has become the third member of his family to be sentenced to jail for “acting against national security”. His father, a pastor, and his mother have already been given jail terms of ...
Islamic State may still be holding as many as 38 Iraqi Christian women captive. Only seven out of 45 women kidnapped by Islamic State (IS) from the Iraqi town of Qaraqosh in August 2014 have returned to ...
Local Muslims held three days of angry demonstrations to protest against the granting of legal status to a church in the village of Sultan Basha, around 150 miles south of Cairo. Demonstrations began after Friday prayers ...
Christian refugees held in Libyan detention centres face rape and beatings. Sara, a 23-year-old Ethiopian Christian, described how she and others had to hide evidence they were Christians from centre guards: “we hid our crosses, because the ...
Police in the Algerian port city of Bejaia shut down a church on 11 July 2018, claiming that the congregation did not have official approval to meet. The church is the third to be shut by Algerian ...
