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Catching Our Eye

Main suspect behind Sri Lanka Easter churches’ deaths arrested
India: Eight Christians acquitted of kidnapping and forced conversion
Sudan: Three churches burned down twice within one month
Nigeria: ‘Government is Boko Haram but without bomb’, says church leader
Christians in Africa face ‘explosion’ in violence, senior church leader says
  • Christian prays during COVID-19, Cairo

    COVID-19 exacerbates discrimination against minority Christians globally

  • Chinese woman, phone in hand, 2020

    Church surveillance, COVID-19 controls affect China’s Christians – 1 of 5 global trends

  • A primary schoolboy walks to school in Dori, northeastern Burkina Faso. (Getty Photo)

    Burkina Faso: Fulani pastor brings hope to stigmatised communities

  • Beatrice Stockli settled in Timbuktu in 2000 and was first kidnapped for 10 days in 2012

    Swiss woman, hostage almost 5 years, killed by Islamist extremists in Mali

  • Italian priest Pier Luigi Maccalli, freed in Mali, worked in SW Niger till his kidnap in Sep 2018

    Priest, held by Islamist extremists for two years, freed in Mali

Articles

If they're not Lutheran, evangelical women in Eritrea have to pray together in secret. (Photo: World Watch Monitor)
Churches, Human rights, Pentecostals, Religious freedom, UN

Eritrean evangelical Christians freed on bail due to COVID-19

The Eritrean government has released on bail more than 20 prisoners who’d been in detention for years because of their faith, the BBC reports. It says . . . Read More
Boko Haram, Churches, Islamic extremism, Minorities, Nigeria, Religious freedom, UN

“Why don’t these black lives matter?”

                  The question of the UK’s Lord Alton on a new UN Day recognised for only the second . . . Read More
Apostasy, Blasphemy, Converts, Human rights, Minorities, Religious freedom, Sharia, Women

NGOs say changes to Sudan’s Islamic laws don’t go far enough

Despite the abolition in July 2020 of Sudan’s apostasy law (under which the case of Christian doctor Mariam Ibraheem, sentenced to hang in 2014, became global . . . Read More
Archbishop Ben Kwashi, Boko Haram, Fulani herdsmen, Islamic extremism, Muhammadu Buhari, Nigeria, Refugees, Women

Boko Haram has killed more than Islamic State in Iraq and Syria combined

Nigerian Wanhena Sheku was working alone on her farm when a group she identified as Fulani herdsmen attacked her in mid-October, 2019. “They told me to . . . Read More
Andrew Brunson, Ankara, Human rights, Protestants, Turkey, USA

Turkey orders deportation of pastor’s American wife, a mother-of-three, in string of expulsions

An American mother-of-three has been told she has to leave Turkey, one of the latest incidents in a series of expulsions of Christian expatriates from the . . . Read More
Boko Haram, Borno, Chibok girls, Fulani herdsmen, Islamic extremism, Kidnapping, Muhammadu Buhari, Nigeria, Women

“Incessant killing more dangerous than Coronavirus”: report on Nigeria to UK Parliament

“The incessant killing is more dangerous than Coronavirus” …The words of a community leader in central Nigeria – after coronavirus had reached his country – after . . . Read More
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