As China’s ruling Communist Party continues its crackdown on Chinese Christian families and house churches, police on Jan. 18 arrested three believers from the Fuyang Maizhong Reformed Church as they led children in the congregation in singing hymns and prayer, China Aid reports.

Christianity is legal in Uganda, but believers who left Islam for Christ are increasingly vulnerable to extreme violence by radicalized Muslim relatives and neighbors. In the latest incident of such brutality, a formerly Muslim couple in eastern Uganda were hacked to death on Feb. 2, just weeks after putting their faith in Christ, Morning Star News reported.

Christians in Punjab Province, Pakistan, last Monday had fire bombs thrown and gunshots fired at their homes by Muslim extremists enraged that they had voted for an opposing political party in the Feb. 8 general election, Morning Star News (MSN) reports. 

Police officers in the United Kingdom recently threatened to arrest a Christian who was preaching the Gospel of salvation on a London street after they received a call claiming he had made a homophobic statement through an amplifying device, the Daily Mail reports.

A Christian mother of seven living at an internally displaced persons camp in Sudan was badly beaten by her Muslim husband after he heard about her new faith in Jesus, Morning Star News (MSN) reports.

A Hindu rights organization in India’s Assam state is demanding the removal of all Christian symbols from local Christian schools on the grounds that missionaries must be prevented from evangelizing pupils, UCA News reports.

Christian rights advocates are concerned that believers in China are being pressured by the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to discourage their children from entering into faith in Christ, Christian Today (CT) reports.

A newly published survey shows that support for Israel dropped by a dramatic 50% among young American Evangelicals in just three years between 2018-2021, the Jerusalem Post reports. The data is consistent with the outpouring of anti-Israel sentiment that was unleashed worldwide, including in the US, following the Oct. 7 attack on the Jewish state by the Hamas Palestinian terror group.

Muslim extremists in eastern Uganda beat a Christian man unconscious, and then torched his house, after seeing him setting up for a Gospel event near their village last month, Morning Star News reports. Christianity is legal in Uganda but believers have come under increasing violent persecution from radicalized Muslims, with those who left Islam for Christ being particularly vulnerable to attacks.

An estimated 10,000 Christians from different faith traditions gathered in Lebanon’s capital city Beirut last month for a groundbreaking ecumenical worship event intended to encourage unity and hope in the Body of Christ, CBN News reports. Titled “Beirut 2024,” the event was held on Jan. 20 as part of celebrations for the annual Week of Prayer for Christian Unity and the 50th anniversary of the Middle East Council of Churches (MECC), CBN News reports.

Screaming that no Christian in the area should be left alive, Islamic gunmen in Punjab Province, Pakistan, murdered a 14-year-old Christian boy during an attack in a marketplace on Feb. 5, Morning News (MSN) reports. 

A recent report on the status of Christianity around the world shows that – despite intense persecution in many countries there – the largest number of Christians are in the Global South, and that Asia (five regions) has the fastest growing Christian populations of all. Titled ‘Status of Global Christianity, 2024, in the Context of 1900–2050,’ the report was published by the US-based Center for the Study of Global Christianity (CSGC).

A spate of extremely violent attacks on Christians in Pakistan’s Punjab Province was manifest again when a Muslim man attacked two Christian women with an ax and attempted to rape one of them last month, Morning Star News (MSN) reports.

Two US Christian aid and advocacy organizations have reported that North Korea’s government is so hostile to Christians that it has imprisoned tens of thousands of believers in labor camps described as “comparable to Nazi death camps.”

A court in Vietnam has sentenced an evangelical Christian man to 4 1/2 years imprisonment on charges of “secession and incitement” for holding prayer meetings in his home, the Christian Post reports.

A young Christian film director in the United States has made a pioneering new documentary that gives a wide-ranging perspective on worldwide evangelism and the thriving condition of Christianity around the world, the Christian Post (CP) reports.

The International Christian Concern (ICC) advocacy and aid organization reported this week that it has provided aid to 50 Christian farmers suffering intense Hindu nationalist persecution in India’s Chhattisgarh state.

Causing alarm that soon there will soon be nothing left of Iraq’s historic Christian community, more than million Christians have now left the country due to war, persecution, government corruption, and unemployment, the Catholic Register reports. There are now just some 150,000 Christians in Iraq, compared to around 1.5 million in 2003.

The United Nations Special Rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief wants Hungary to share its experiences with helping persecuted Christians “with the rest of the world” amid mounting anti-Christian and anti-Jewish sentiments, a government official said.

Two Christian brothers in Punjab Province, Pakistan were abducted last month by Islamic extremists who brutally tortured them and ordered them to confess allegiance to Islam or be killed, the Christian Post (CP) reports.