NEWS ALERT: Morocco Expels 100 Christian Foreigners
Morocco has expelled 100 foreign Christians since March because they allegedly tried to convert Muslims, the harshest crackdown in decades, Worthy News learned Saturday, May 22.
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Muslims Destroy Churches In Nigeria Kano State
Muslim extremists destroyed several churches and a pastor’s house in the latest religious violence to hit Nigeria’s northern Kano state, church representatives and rights activists said Friday, May 21.
Pakistan Muslim Employer “Kills” Christian Boy, Injures Brother
A Muslim employer allegedly beat two Christian siblings with an iron rod killing one and seriously injuring the other in Pakistan’s Punjab province, an advocacy group said Thursday, April 29.
Pakistan Christian Entrepreneur Dies After Bank Raid
Police have arrested a local branch manager of Pakistan’s Khushali Bank Limited (KBL) in Punjab province for allegedly using force to recover a bank loan from a Christian entrepreneur, who later died of a heart attack, leaving behind a wife and three children, government officials said Wednesday, April 14.
Iran Frees Church Leader On Bail
An Iranian pastor jailed for 54 days on charges of “converting Muslims” to Christianity, spent Easter in freedom this weekend after he was temporary released on bail along with several other believers, Iranian Christians and rights investigators said.
BREAKING NEWS: Pakistan Armed Group Attacks Church; Hostages Freed
Pakistani security forces freed hostages held in a church compound by over a dozen armed men and women on Friday, April 2, and detained several suspects, police officials and Christians told Worthy News and its partner agency BosNewsLife.
Pakistan Christian Maid Burned To Death
A young Christian maid was raped and burned to death by the son of her Muslim employer in the industrial city of Sheikhupura, the second murder of a domestic servant in Pakistan’s Punjab province in less than two months, investigators confirmed Thursday April 1.
NEWS ALERT: Somalia Militants Kill Church Leader; Crackdown On “Non-Islamic Culture”
Somalia’s feared Islamic militant group al-Shabab has warned Christians and other residents that it will crackdown on “non-Islamic culture” across the country, after its fighters reportedly killed another Christian leader and destroyed a tomb of a apparently moderate Muslim cleric.
BREAKING NEWS: Pakistan Burned Christian Dies At 38; Christians Protest
Arshed Masih, a Pakistani Christian who was burned by Muslim hardliners for refusing to convert to Islam, died early Tuesday, March 23, at the age of 38, his family told Worthy News and its news partner BosNewsLife.
BREAKING NEWS: Pakistan’s Punjab Bans Christian Protests Citing “Terrorism Threats”
Citing “terrorism threats”, the government of Pakistan’s Punjab province banned protests Monday, March 22, against the “refusal” by police to detain those who burned a Christian man for not converting to Islam, while raping his wife.
BREAKING NEWS: Pakistan Authorities Investigate Burning, Rape, Of Christian Couple
The government of Pakistan’s most populous province announced an investigation Sunday, March 21, into reports that a Christian man was burned and his wife raped by local police and Muslim religious leaders for refusing to convert to Islam.
NEWS ALERT: Pakistan Christian “Burnt”, Wife “Raped”, For Refusing Islam (Investigation)
A Christian man was fighting for his life in Pakistan’s Punjab province Saturday, March 20, after Muslim leaders backed by police burned him alive for refusing to convert to Islam, while his wife was raped by police officers, Christian and hospital sources familiar with the case told Worthy News and its news partner BosNewsLife.
Nigeria Women Protest Against Massacre of Christians
Thousands of women dressed in black have marched through the streets of the troubled Nigerian city of Jos “to mourn, pray and protest” against the killings of possible hundreds of people, most of them Christians, by suspected Muslim mobs.
BREAKING NEWS: Morocco Deports Christian Aid Workers In Massive Crackdown
A baby boy was reportedly fighting for his life Saturday, March 13, after Moroccan authorities expelled his Christian foster parents and some 70 other foreign Christian aid workers for allegedly trying to convert local Muslims.
Pakistan Couple, Man, Jailed For Blasphemy
A Christian couple, were detained Thursday, March 11, as they began serving a 25-year prison term for blasphemy against Islam shortly after another Christian received a similar sentence, the latest in a series of cases that have worried the human rights community.
Pakistan Christian Dies After Gunmen Storm House
A young Christian man died of a heart attack after armed Muslim gunmen stormed his house in the outskirts of Lahore, the capital of Pakistan’s Punjab province, where Islamic attacks against minority Christians are increasing, two advocacy groups said Wednesday, March 10.
NEWS ALERT: Tortured Iran Pastor Facing Execution, Christians say
The detained Assyrian pastor of an evangelical church in Iran has been tortured and told he may be executed for converting Muslims to Christianity and related charges, his wife and Christians with close knowledge about his situation said.
BREAKING NEWS: Attacks Against Christian Villages Kill 200 In Nigeria
Bodies of the dead — including many women and children — lined dusty streets in three mostly Christian villages south of Nigeria’s regional capital of Jos early Monday, March 8, after rioters armed with machetes “slaughtered” over 200 people here, witnesses said.
India Police Detain Bishops In Dalit March
Several bishops were detained Friday, March 5, in India’s southern state of Tamil Nadu where police halted a protest march against the alleged discrimination of Dalit Christians here and elsewhere in this mainly Hindu nation, Christian officials said.
Christian Party Re-elected in Dutch Town After Hindu Row
A small Christian party which made world headlines with protests against local government support for a Hindu religious festival has been re-elected in the municipal council of Amstelveen, a strategic town near the Dutch capital Amsterdam, local election results showed Wednesday, March 3.