A US military veteran who was shot in the head while street preaching in Arizona last month is making such remarkable steps toward recovery that his wife has described them as “miracles,” CBN News reports.
Authorities in the Islamic Republic of Mauritania arrested 15 Christian leaders and their families earlier this month after a video showing a local baptismal service was leaked and circulated, International Christian Concern (ICC) reports.
Rights advocates are calling for Indonesia’s blasphemy laws to be amended or revoked, as the number of Islamic fatwas and arrests for blasphemy against Islam have increased at an alarming rate, Morning Star News (MSN) reports.
Although Christianity is constitutionally legal in Uganda, two Evangelists who preached the Gospel to Muslims in the East African country are now in prison awaiting trial for blasphemy against Islam, Morning Star News (MSN) reports.
Worryingly, Christian refugees from the Vietnamese Hmong and Montagnard minority groups are now facing arrests and harassment from officials in Thailand, where they have come seeking refuge from persecution in Vietnam, International Christian Concern (ICC) reports.
Fulani Islamic terrorists killed eight more Christians in Nigeria’s Plateau state last month, Morning Star News (MSN) reports. Nigeria leads the world for the number of Christians murdered on account of their faith: well over 50,000 have been slaughtered since the Boko Haram Islamist insurgency in 2009.
As Syrians struggle to cope with the devastating consequences of a catastrophic civil war, the number of Christians in the previously formidable Syrian city of Aleppo has now decreased from around 250,000 to just 50,000, International Christian Concern (ICC) reports.
An elderly Christian man in West Java province, Indonesia is now serving a second prison term for blasphemy on the grounds he insulted the Muslim prophet Mohammed in social media posts that were critical of Islam, International Christian Concern (ICC) reports.
Reports have been filed that, in early October, Islamic jihadists in Burkina Faso slaughtered two Catholic priests in the church sanctuary of a Christian village in Sourou province and then gave the entire village just two hours to abandon their homes and flee for their lives, Global Christian Relief (GCR) reports. .
Authorities in the Islamic Republic of Mauritania arrested 15 Christian leaders and their families earlier this month after a video showing a local baptismal service was leaked and circulated, International Christian Concern (ICC) reports.
A Christian man in Punjab, Pakistan, has gone into hiding with his family after finally being released on bail pending trial for alleged blasphemy against Islam, the British Asian Christian Association (BACA) reports.
The long-persecuted Early Rain Covenant Church (ERCC) in China’s Sichuan Province has been subjected to further intense persecution from Chinese authorities who arrested and detained church leaders and sought to block an important online prayer meeting on 9 December 2023, Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW) reports.
Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) incorporated into Islamic State are believed to have carried out an attack on a Christian community in western Uganda last week, in which they hacked a woman to death with an ax, severely injured her nephew, and kidnapped another man, International Christian Concern (ICC) reports.
Less than two weeks after suspected al-Shabaab jihadists beheaded a 72-year-old Christian man in Kenya’s Lamu West County, terrorists kidnapped and murdered a 60-year-old Christian man in the same area on Dec. 5, International Christian Concern (ICC) reports.
Since overthrowing Myanmar’s democratically elected government and launching a fresh civil war in February 2021, the Burmese Tatmadaw military junta has destroyed 74 churches and arrested 42 Christians, International Christian Concern (ICC) reports.
Two Christians were critically injured, and several others wounded, when Hindu nationalists raided a church service in India’s Chhattisgarh state earlier this month, International Christian Concern reports.
A senior church leader in Algeria has seen his original prison sentence for holding an “unauthorized” church service reduced on appeal, well-informed Christians told Worthy News Wednesday.
Muslims in South Sulawesi, Indonesia, are blocking a Christian school from being built in their neighborhood despite the school having been granted the requisite building permit by the authorities, International Christian Concern (ICC) reports.
A new poll shows that nearly a quarter of young people in the United Kingdom would ban the Bible if they believed it contained “hate speech,” Christian Today (CT) reports.
The wife of a Redeemed Christian Church of God pastor serving in Nigeria’s Taraba state was shot dead by terrorists as she drove home from her native Ondo state on Nov. 17, Morning Star News (MSN) reports.