Christian News

Posted on:Thursday, February 13, 2025
Two Christians in their 60s, who were “pardoned” and released after serving a combined six years in prison for leading house churches in Iran, have been re-arrested, a non-profit organization advocating for persecuted Christians reported.

Posted on:Thursday, February 13, 2025
There was concern Thursday that Christians publicly expressing their faith in Britain could face a ‘thought police’ after a Christian woman was forced to leave an area near an abortion clinic for silently praying there.

Posted on:Tuesday, February 11, 2025
Wycliffe Bible Translators, a leader in Bible translation for decades, is advancing towards their Vision 2025 goal, set in the late nineties, to make the Bible accessible in every language by 2025. The integration of artificial intelligence is accelerating this translation process, according to CBN News.

Posted on:Tuesday, February 11, 2025
Over three-quarters of U.S. teens (77%) express motivation—52% very motivated and 25% somewhat motivated—to continue learning about Jesus throughout their lives, according to a recent Barna study titled ‘The Open Generation.’

Posted on:Tuesday, February 11, 2025
A prominent evangelical leader has been killed in northeastern Nigeria, a friend confirmed to Worthy News on Tuesday.

Posted on:Tuesday, February 11, 2025
The main suspect in the killing of a young Christian man in Pakistan that shocked the Christian community has been detained at the international airport of Lahore, the country’s second-largest city, sources involved in the case told Worthy News on Tuesday.

Posted on:Tuesday, February 11, 2025
Over a dozen U.S. citizens and an Indian national were detained last week in southeastern Nepal for alleged evangelistic activities, as reported by Nepalese media. Civil society sources and religious leaders said that this act by the Nepalese government was meant to intimidate the Christian community, according to International Christian Concern (ICC).

Posted on:Tuesday, February 11, 2025
Christians in Lahore, Pakistan’s second-largest city, expressed concern Tuesday over the whereabouts of a 12-year-old Christian girl who was reportedly kidnapped, forced to convert to Islam, and married against her will.

Posted on:Saturday, February 8, 2025
Boko Haram terrorists raided communities in northeastern Nigeria last week, displacing over 1,500 Christians. Since 2009, Islamic terror groups—including Boko Haram, Islamic State, and Fulani jihadists—have killed or abducted tens of thousands of Christians and displaced millions in their push for an Islamic Caliphate.

Posted on:Friday, February 7, 2025
As entrenched Islamic jihadism expands from northern Nigeria down the country, 16 Pentecostal Christians were murdered and homes set on fire during an attack by suspected Fulani militant herdsmen in southern Nigeria’s Ebonyi state on Sunday, International Christian Concern (ICC) reports.

Posted on:Friday, February 7, 2025
Christians as well as rights groups and journalists in Pakistan have condemned a newly passed digital crimes law which they say may be used to persecute people who dissent from or criticize the government, Christian Daily International (CDI) reports.

Posted on:Friday, February 7, 2025
Mike Bickle, the charismatic founder of U.S.-based International House of Prayer-Kansas City (IHOPKC), a global evangelical missionary group and church, was involved in sexual and spiritual abuse for decades, investigators say.

Posted on:Thursday, February 6, 2025
A 12-year-old Christian girl in Pakistan’s Punjab Province was abducted from her home last month by three Islamists who threatened to sell her into slavery, Morning Star News (MSN) reports.

Posted on:Thursday, February 6, 2025
Despite reported protests from radical Muslims, thousands have heard the Gospel during Palu’s Friendship Festival and related evangelistic events in Indonesia, Worthy News learned Thursday.

Posted on:Wednesday, February 5, 2025
Indonesian authorities in Palu felt compelled to cancel a planned interfaith festival and reorganize it into a Christian-only event after hundreds of Muslims protested the announcement that two evangelists would speak at the festival last month, Morning Star News (MSN) reports.

Posted on:Wednesday, February 5, 2025
Christians in Syria have reported they are worried for their futures as the country gets used to a new Islamic government following the ousting of dictator Bashar al-Assad on December 8 last year.

Posted on:Tuesday, February 4, 2025
A respected elder of the Celestial Church of Christ, Eagle Parish, in Ogun state, Nigeria, was shot dead when three gunmen invaded the Sunday service on January 19, International Christian Concern (ICC) reports.

Posted on:Monday, February 3, 2025
A house-church preacher in Guandong, China, has been sentenced to two years imprisonment for conducting “illegal business operations” by distributing his church’s Christian literature, International Christian Concern (ICC) reports.

Posted on:Monday, February 3, 2025
A Christian refugee who was imprisoned in Egypt for belonging to a Facebook group about leaving Islam for Christ has been released after three years of incarceration, ADF International reports. Egypt ranks 40 on the Open Doors World Watch List 2025 of the top 50 countries where Christians are persecuted.

Posted on:Friday, January 31, 2025
Tensions remained high Friday in Pakistan’s Punjab Province after local police detained a mentally challenged Christian on charges of blasphemy against Islam, Christians told Worthy News.