According to a soon to be released UN report, Iran’s Islamic Republic has raided worship services, shut down licensed churches, arrested Christians and subjected converts to Christ to death threats and psychological abuse.
Authorities have sentenced Behnam Irani and two other Christian leaders to six years in prison for their involvement with Iran’s underground house churches, according to Morning Star News.
A British messianic Jew deported from Israel last year for participating in an evangelistic outreach will appeal his case to the nation’s supreme court, according to Morning Star News.
An Iraqi bishop whose community has taken in more than 70,000 displaced Christians is dismayed that the government in Baghdad has failed to offer any assistance, according to Patheos.
Barnabas Aid has learned that women and girls being held captive by ISIS at Mosul’s Badush Prison have been given the choice to either convert to Islam, or suffer rape on a daily basis until they change their minds.
Jihadists from the Islamic State have destroyed a Syrian church that memorialized the Armenian Genocide in which more than a million Armenian and Assyrian Christians died at the hands of Turkish Muslims.
Attacks by violent Muslims have increased in intensity against a Christian congregation in East Jerusalem.
September 26, 2014 marks two years since American Pastor Abedini Saeed was imprisoned in Iran.
Three pastors are facing charges that could lead to the death penalty for their involvement in Iran’s underground house-church movement.
Last week, Saudi Arabia’s notorious religious police — the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice — had arrested almost 30 Christians worshiping at a private home in the Saudi city of Khafji.
An Iranian Christian pastor imprisoned for his faith now faces the death penalty after being officially charged with “spreading corruption on [the] Earth.”
Years of harassment by militant Muslims have forced a Palestinian church in East Jerusalem to leave their own building.
An Iranian pastor has been charged with “waging war against God,” a crime punishable by death, according to BarnabasAid.
Pastor Saeed Abedini is facing death threats from members of the Islamic State who are incarcerated in the same Iranian prison where Abedini is being held, according to CBN.
The five-year-old son of a founding member of Baghdad’s Anglican church was cut in two during an attack on the Christian town of Qaraqosh by the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, according to the Anglican Communion News Service.
Members of the militant Islamic State in Iraq and Syria torched an 1,800 year-old Catholic Church in Mosul as Christians fled for fear of their lives, according to the Christian Post.
The Islamic State have distributed leaflets to Christians in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul threatening to kill them if they don’t convert, according to Breitbart News.
Iranian security forces have arrested three Christians including a pastor, according to Christian Today.
Iraq’s Patriarch has appealed for the release of two nuns and three orphans who have been missing in Mosul, according to Yahoo News.
The Islamic State (IS) has been brutally enforcing Islamic laws in Mosul, according to the Assyrian International News Agency.