- Niger: US aid worker Jeff Woodke faced ‘brutal’ treatment in captivity
- Niger: US aid worker Jeff Woodke released
- Egypt: Copt and son killed in IS attack
- Pakistan: Christians continue to face blasphemy convictions and violent attacks
- Egypt: Father and son stabbed in latest attack on Copts
- ICC Prosecutor visits Nigeria to discuss war crimes and crimes against humanity with government
- Egypt: Copt stabbed seven times by neighbour who’d lured in his son
- Egypt: Coptic Christian imprisoned for 5 years for ‘blasphemy’
- Pakistan: ‘Attack on pastors illustrative of increasing pressure’, say Christians
- Afghanistan overtakes N Korea as most dangerous place to live as a Christian
- Pakistan sewage workers’ widows pressured to drop criminal negligence cases
- Her co-hostage freed a year before; nun meets Pope after Islamists let her leave Mali
- Pakistani Senator alleges police collusion with gang whose gun attack injures seven, one critically
- Pakistani Christian couple acquitted of blasphemy after 7 years on death row
- Boko Haram ‘flies flag 2 hours from Abuja’ warned Governor, as Nigerian captive teen turns 18
- Death threats, by Islamic State in Sinai, against Egyptian Copt sons who mourn dad
- ‘Bring back our 112 Chibok girls – now and alive!’ Demands for closure and disclosure 7 years on
- Malaysian woman wins 13 year fight for right to call God ‘Allah’
- Freed on bail after 4 years in jail; no evidence Pakistani ‘liked’ blasphemy Facebook post, aged 16
- COVID-19 exacerbates discrimination against minority Christians globally
- Church surveillance, COVID-19 controls affect China’s Christians – 1 of 5 global trends
- Burkina Faso: Fulani pastor brings hope to stigmatised communities
- Swiss woman, hostage almost 5 years, killed by Islamist extremists in Mali
- Priest, held by Islamist extremists for two years, freed in Mali
- Eritrean evangelical Christians freed on bail due to COVID-19
- “Why don’t these black lives matter?”
- NGOs say changes to Sudan’s Islamic laws don’t go far enough
- Boko Haram has killed more than Islamic State in Iraq and Syria combined
- Turkey orders deportation of pastor’s American wife, a mother-of-three, in string of expulsions
- “Incessant killing more dangerous than Coronavirus”: report on Nigeria to UK Parliament
- Nigeria’s Kano State Governor converts Christian under-age girl to Islam
- Nigerian girl, 17, escapes month in locked room after abduction and forcible conversion to Islam
- Mass exodus of teachers triggers education crisis in north east Kenya
- UN Sec. General’s “biggest data gap in the world” affects persecuted Christian women
- 40 Pakistani Christians freed after almost 5 years in prison on trial for ‘terrorism’
- Violent Islamist militancy spreads into weak states across sub-Saharan Africa
- Risk of persecution going digital with rise of surveillance state
- From sub-Saharan Africa to China, Christians experience ‘high’ levels of persecution
- Tajik pastor freed after 3 years in prison for ‘singing extremist songs in church’
- India: Supreme Court orders seven Kandhamal Christians freed on bail after 9 years in prison
- Al-Shabaab singles out 11 to kill in bus attack in northern Kenya; raises fear for Christians
- For Gambian Christians, there’s a lot to like — and one big worry — in the proposed constitution
- Korean murdered in southeast Turkey ‘for mobile phone’
- Refusing to move, an Ethiopian congregation is arrested
- Egypt: Series of fires in their churches ‘not a coincidence’, say Copts
- Turkey serves deportation order after German’s 20 years of tourism work
- EU Envoy’s threat of trade sanctions played crucial role in Asia Bibi’s freedom
- Lack of a lunch for all – life in an IDP camp on Myanmar border
- At least 150 Christians arrested in Eritrea clampdown
- 176 children lost one or both parents in Sri Lanka Easter bombings
- Afghanistan: Radical Islamist groups recruit at universities
- Nigeria: Violence continues but government in denial, church leaders say
- ‘It’s time to be real: what happens in Iraq is ethnic cleansing’ – UK analyst
- Ethiopia: Pressure on churches building; evangelical church told to vacate after ten years
- Iraq: Five years after IS occupied Mosul, returnees live in fear
- India: Supreme Court orders Kandhamal Christian freed on bail after 10 years in prison
- Burkina Faso: 5 leaders killed in 3 months as Islamists continue to target churches
- Sri Lankan Christians grapple with aftermath of Easter bombings amid fears of fresh attacks
- Ten years after fake blasphemy charge, Pakistani Asia Bibi reunited with family
- Burkina Faso church leader killed by Islamists: ‘I’d rather die than leave my community’
- “I was last to come out alive”- Kenyan student on her life-changing injuries from Garissa
- 5 years on, 112 Chibok girls missing – but they are just ‘tip of the iceberg’
- ‘In context of gender justice, women’s right to freedom of religion pretty much ignored’
- Christians face uncertain future as Syria enters possible last year of civil war
- For persecuted Christian women, violence is compounded by ‘shaming’
- Pastor Brunson case increased ‘hate speech’ against Turkey’s Protestants – report
- North Korea asks for food aid as its president discusses denuclearisation
- Tajikistan: Children barred from attending church, 5,000 Christian calendars burned
- As Nigeria votes, family and churches urge candidates to remember Christian teen Leah Sharibu
- Nigeria elections: Whomever wins, Christians hope for justice and security
- Another Colombian pastor killed, leaving the church ‘terrified’
- Malaysia: Exactly 2 years since Raymond Koh’s abduction, his wife asks PM to intervene
- ‘Situation for India’s religious minorities is at tipping point’ – report
- Ethiopia: Ethnic Somali Christian police man forced to relocate after talking about his faith
- Pakistani top court rejects review, setting Christian woman Asia Bibi free
- Wife beaten so badly she can’t walk, he’s deep in debt: Pakistani Christian freed after 3 year ‘blasphemy’ trial
- Philippines: Authorities say church bombing not connected to Mindanao referendum
- Indonesian Christian ex-governor Ahok released
- From China to sub-Saharan Africa, Christians experience high levels of persecution in 73 countries
- Gender-based violence used in persecution of global Christian community
- Key trends show in 2019 List of countries where it’s most difficult to live as a Christian
- Church construction slows under Egypt’s new church-building law
- New religion-control law changes little in Vietnam after 1 year
- Two Pakistani Christian brothers sentenced to death for blasphemy
- Calls for inquiry into UN peacekeepers’ role in massacres in Central African Republic
- ‘I must denounce this wickedness openly’ – detained Chinese pastor
- Pakistan joins US list of worst religious freedom violators
- Indian Christians heave sighs of relief as Hindu nationalists lose elections in key states
- Egypt: Copt sentenced to three years in prison for ‘blasphemous’ Facebook post
- Indonesian Christian governor Ahok set for early release from prison
- Raymond Koh’s wife ‘expects justice’ as inquiry into Malaysian pastor’s abduction ends
- 70 years since universal declaration, human rights ‘ignored and abused all over the world’
- Iran: ‘staggering’ number of Christians arrested – 114 in a week
- Prince Charles praises ‘extraordinary grace and forgiveness’ of Christians in Middle East
- Pakistani Christian asylum seekers in Thailand ask for help
- Persecution of minority Christian women ‘hidden, complex, and interwoven with “everyday” discrimination’
- Turkey refuses entry to N. American Christian evangelist
- CAR: Two priests among dozens massacred as Islamic militants raid church compound
- Egypt bus attack survivors ask ‘how could this happen again?’
- Two pastors among seven killed by Islamist militants in eastern DRC
- Pakistan Christians wary as asylum offers flood in for Asia Bibi
- Nigeriens call for Jeff Woodke’s release, 2 years after his abduction
- ‘Next time we will not survive’ – Middle East Christian refugee
- Prince Charles bypassing Jos ‘robbed Nigeria’s Christians of opportunity to create awareness about our travails’
- ‘No grounds for review of Supreme Court ruling’ – Asia Bibi’s lawyer, who fled Pakistan
- Pakistan paralysed following Asia Bibi’s victory in Supreme Court
- ‘Untouchable’ caste identity haunts Pakistani Christians like Asia Bibi
- Pakistan PM appeals for calm after Christian woman acquitted of blasphemy
- ‘A victory for Pakistan and millions of its marginalised people’ – son of governor who was killed for defence of innocent Asia Bibi
- Pakistani mother Asia Bibi wins appeal against death sentence for blasphemy
- Pakistani Christian gets life for blasphemy despite learning difficulties
- Turkey gives Western Christian evangelist 15 days to leave country
- Coptic woman who lost half her face in church bombing arrives in Germany for operation
- Sudanese Christians beaten before release
- Nigerian student recalls the night 10 family members were killed in front of her
- Asia Bibi appeal complainant not even present at time of her alleged ‘blasphemy’
- One year after Marawi’s liberation from IS, thousands of Christians still displaced
- Sudan: 13 Christians arrested in Darfur, another church told to hand over property
- 1,000 days since kidnap of 84-year-old doctor in Burkina Faso, family plead for his release
- Kenya: Two Christian teachers killed by suspected Al-Shabaab attackers
- Nigerian Islamist extremists kill aid worker ‘for work for Red Cross’, Christians ‘slaves for life’
- Iraqi Christian boy Noeh under his own roof again
- Brunson freed, permitted to leave Turkey
- Pakistan: Islamic groups threaten Supreme Court judges ahead of Asia Bibi ruling
- Algeria: Christian family accused of ‘proselytism’ – hearing postponed
- Andrew Brunson’s legal appeal sent to Turkey’s highest court
- Pakistan’s Supreme Court hears Asia Bibi’s ‘blasphemy’ appeal but delays ruling
- Ten years after arrest of their illiterate husbands, Indian wives wait for justice
- Nobel Peace Prize for two campaigners against rape as weapon of war
- Leah Sharibu’s mother pleads with Nigerian president as kidnappers threaten to kill daughter
- Indonesia: Three churches closed in permits dispute
- Sudan releases shipment of Bibles held in port for six years
- China: Christian schoolchildren forced to tick ‘no religion’ box
- Suspected accomplice in Pakistan church bombings acquitted
- Pakistani Christian family flees after home set on fire, told they’ll be killed if they return
- Sudanese government gives back 19 properties to church body
- Churches in Syria: ‘We live together or we die together’
- Pakistani Christians fear more violence if they press charges over attack
- 27 church members among dead after Islamist assault in DRC
- Turkish-US officials ‘cautiously optimistic’ of Brunson’s release
- 20+ Nigerian Christians drown in river attempting to escape Fulani attackers
- Abduction of Italian priest shocks Niger
- Boko Haram kills midwife, threatens to kill other hostages, including Leah Sharibu, unless demands met
- ‘Being Burmese means being Buddhist’ – pastor explains discrimination faced by Christians in Myanmar
- Central African Republic: Dozens feared dead after massacre in Bria
- Attacks against Copts ‘among deadliest acts of religious persecution’ – report
- Nigeria: Dozens more killed as Fulani herdsmen violence continues in Plateau state
- Fall in Christian refugee admissions ‘suggests Trump has no real interest in religious persecution’
- Closed churches force Copts to hold funerals in the streets
- Syrian village bombed: five children under 15 – three from same family – among 12 killed
- India: 2 years after Supreme Court order, no investigation into ‘shocking’ number of Kandhamal acquittals
- Turkey replaces prosecutor who indicted US pastor Brunson
- Nigeria: Pastor and three sons burned alive among at least 20 killed in latest Plateau massacre
- Life in 70-years-old North Korea ‘is like living in Orwell’s 1984’, says escapee
- EU should ‘put people of the world’ first in quest for religious freedom – report
- Nicaragua: Christians attacked, detained and killed as ‘enemies of the regime’
- Nigerians displaced by Boko Haram told to return to dangerous areas to vote
- Parents seek global petitions to Nigerian President to ‘#BringBackOurLeah’
- Egypt: Mob attacks prevent Coptic church’s recognition for ‘security’ reasons
- As Sudan hosts CAR peace talks, Russia offers to get more involved
- ‘Iraq without Christians is like a garden without a rose’
- Egypt: Muslim mobs force closure of 8 Coptic churches seeking ‘official’ recognition
- Nigerian church leaders, families continue to die; US top diplomat blames ‘climate of impunity’
- Pakistani Christians’ homes ransacked by mob after son falsely charged with abduction, rape
- Amnesty launches writing campaign for release of four Iranian Christians
- India: Kandhamal Christians still waiting for justice one decade after massacre
- Egypt: IS murder of Coptic vet followed warnings to ‘leave or die’
- Hidden agendas cloak Turkish-US feud over jailed pastor
- Coptic boy who saw father killed wants to join police ‘to protect Christians’
- Nepali law criminalising ‘hurting of religious feelings’ comes into force
- Mexican pastor survives assassination attempt
- Modi speaks out against ‘menace’ of mob attacks for first time
- Ethiopian PM sends condolences to Orthodox Church after 15 priests killed
- Blasphemy accusation draws mob to Pakistan town’s only Christian street
- Sudan court rules in favour of church in governance dispute
- Will new Muslim region in southern Philippines bring peace?
- What is behind the Fulani herdsmen-farmers conflict?
- ‘How can reading the Bible be acting against national security?’ asks Iranian Christian from prison
- Nine-year-old Indian girl from convert family reported raped, then murdered
- Could Brunson’s release ease Turkey’s diplomatic standoff with the US?
- We’ll close one church every week, Indian Christians told
- ‘Only jihadists want to see Christians leave the Middle East’
- Religious minorities fear backlash as Sunni Islam declared state religion of Comoros
- Hindu extremist violence on the rise in southern Indian states
- Buhari does not stop Fulani because they are his ‘kith and kin’ – Christian Association of Nigeria
- Brunson’s third Turkish hearing focused on PKK allegations
- UN tells Algeria to ‘guarantee freedom of religion to all’ after church closures
- Sri Lankan Christian: ‘They took everything from us’
- More than 8,000 Rwandan churches closed following government directive
- Home after 21 months, but US pastor Andrew Brunson now can’t leave house till October trial
- Chinese churches ‘more careful who they allow in’, as raids increase
- US pastor Andrew Brunson to be moved from prison to house arrest, but can’t leave Turkey
- Iranian pastor taken to Evin Prison after violent raid on home
- Egypt: Copt in court for ‘blasphemous’ Facebook post that led to riot
- Coptic barber dies after ‘fainting’ at police station; family say he was killed
- Egypt: Copts celebrate first Mass in new church, seven years since closure of previous building
- China: Xinjiang’s children in orphanages as their parents held in re-education camps
- Anti-Christian violence in India’s Uttar Pradesh ‘part of the state machinery’
- Archbishop of Canterbury raises profile of Nigeria attacks as new humanitarian crisis looms
- Jail for Iranian pastor’s son found guilty of ‘acting against national security’
- Chad: Sultan in Christian and Animist South is ‘threat for peace’
- Hopes dashed for release of pastor Andrew Brunson as Turkish trial to continue in October
- Egypt: Mob attack encouraged by police promise ‘No church will be allowed here’
- Missionaries of Charity complain of ‘baseless innuendos’ as government orders probe
- Algerian government allows three churches to re-open in June, but now closes another
- Freed Czech charity worker recalls finding hell and heaven in Sudan’s jails
- Families left confused after reported release of Burkina Faso Christians turns out to be false
- Myanmar: Peace talks resume but ethnic autonomy not on the agenda
- Egypt: Copts attacked after Facebook post ‘showing contempt of Islam’
- Algerian ‘happy to be free at last’ after jail sentence and fine for carrying Christian items
- India: 16 more Christians detained under Jharkhand’s ‘anti-conversion law’
- Attack on seven Iranian Christians exposes religious minorities’ ‘extreme vulnerability’ in refugee camps
- Buhari renews pledge to protect Nigerians as killings continue
- Christians matter least in Pakistani politics
- Central African Republic in mourning again as another priest killed
- Iraqi archbishop tells USAID delegation to hurry up aid delivery
- Church of Muslim converts told to close in Kyrgyzstan
- America ups the ante over Pastor Brunson’s detention
- Reconciliation with Ethiopia could improve human rights in Eritrea – UN rapporteur
- Jeff Woodke’s wife releases third video plea for news of her husband
- Indian state’s ‘anti-conversion law’ to be repealed
- Nigerian Christians refute claims herdsmen killings were retaliatory, as Plateau violence reaches new peak
- Mexican pastor killed, nine years on from son’s murder
- 70,000 Syrian Armenians have fled during the war, and few will return
- Iranian Christian woman pleads with UN to help family overturn ‘false and unjust’ spy charges
- Ethiopian Evangelical sent back to prison for ‘causing outrage to religious feeling’
- Copt’s fields torched after rumours he was turning his house into a church
- What does conviction of five Christian youths to hang for death of one Fulani herder show about the farmer–herdsmen conflict in N. Nigeria?
- Increase in religious harassment globally – Pew
- China’s ‘underground’ churches told to seek ‘guidance’ from state-approved bodies
- UN chief ‘personally concerned’ about return of Christians to Iraq and Syria
- Egypt to pay for Coptic bomb attack victim’s surgery in Germany
- Tajikistan: Christian convert’s burial delayed as relatives call for husband to return to Islam
- Iraqi Christian Rita was sold four times on the IS sex slave market
- What churches can do to help victims of sexual violence in conflict to stay ‘part of us’
- Did Mozambique beheadings signal emergence of jihad in southern Africa?
- India: Police slow to register case after church burnt down by suspected Hindu extremists
- Copts’ homes attacked after they protest Muslim men swimming naked in front of them
- A ‘dire time for human rights in Russia’ as World Cup begins
- Algerian pastor ‘amazed’ as three churches told they can reopen
- Coptic Christians harassed for drinking water during Ramadan fasting hours
- North Koreans ‘betrayed’ by human rights omission in Trump-Kim agreement
- ‘Christianity in Syria is under threat from forces the West is supporting’
- Burkina Faso: Kidnappers release pastor and his family after four days
- Convert in Sweden tells of ‘nightmares every night’ amid fears of deportation and Iranian jail
- Assessment of religious conversions as genuine or asylum-motivated dismissed as naïve
- US missionary, captive for 20 months, is alive, reports Niger’s president
- Nigerian pastor says security services threatened to kill him after Muslim woman’s conversion to Christianity
- Four Iranian Christians set to begin ten-year prison sentences
- Second Christian leader in two weeks kidnapped in Burkina Faso
- Pakistan: Christians told they can’t have a church in Muslim-majority village
- CAR’s clerics warn against attempts to divide Christians and Muslims
- Turkey returns confiscated Syriac church property deeds
- Closure of India’s Emmanuel Mission office halts education of 74 children
- India: 2017 saw 20% increase in atrocities against Christians, says lawyer
- Copts persuaded to drop charges against mob who attacked their church
- Algeria: two more Protestant churches closed down by government
- Two Pakistani Christian sewerage workers die from poisonous gases
- Fulani violence against Nigeria Christians hits record high
- Coptic mother’s agony at trauma of son who saw Islamists kill his father
- Eritrea: Rights groups call for renewal of UN Special Rapporteur’s mandate
- Pakistani court hands down 14 years in prison for rape of 7 year-old Christian girl
- Egypt: Coptic villagers persuaded to shut church to keep the peace
- Malaysia: inquiry into Pastor Koh, missing for 15 months, hears of police collusion
- Protestant churches in Algeria call on government to treat them fairly
- Chaldean Patriarch congratulates surprise Iraqi election winner
- Philippines: Marawi, a year after Islamist siege, 50,000 still in temporary shelter
- Egypt: Coptic mother recalls Minya bus attack that killed her son
- Indonesia: Death toll ‘unimaginable’ if bomb had exploded inside church
- Can the Scouts help safeguard the future of the Church in Syria?
- Egypt: Families of beheaded Copts finally reunited with remains of loved ones
- Sudan: ‘Put brakes on’ normalising relations, rights groups tell US
- CAR cardinal calls for end to retaliatory violence after shoot-out at Mass
- Myanmar: 7,000 Kachin displaced as violence escalates
- Indonesia bombings ‘did not come as a surprise’
- Landmark judgment on Pakistani religious minorities yet to be honoured by the state
- India: Catholics say BJP doctored letter to garner votes ahead of Karnataka elections
- Brunson’s lawyer: secret witness practice ‘absolutely outlandish’
- Pakistan: bereaved parents accept compensation but suspect walks free
- Algerian Christian’s fine for importing crucifix keyrings ‘ridiculous’, says lawyer
- A Christian escapee from North Korea has his doubts about Kim’s peace overtures
- Praying for a peacemaker: What do Iraq’s elections mean for the remaining Christians?
- Report: UN weakness on religious freedom undercuts its authority on human rights
- Court orders extra payment to Christian widows of 14 who died in India riots
- Kidnapping fears for missing Coptic newlywed
- Religious freedom is a prerequisite for democracy – US commission
- Brunson’s trial highlights Turkey’s ‘hostage diplomacy’ tactic
- Egyptian Copts face Muslim mobs protesting against legalisation of churches
- Church massacre shatters Central African capital’s tranquility
- North Korea: US citizens set for release ahead of Trump-Kim talks
- Tributes paid to Indian pastor beheaded by suspected Maoists
- ‘How can you accidentally shoot yourself in the back of the neck?’ ask Coptic soldier’s family
- ‘Avoid persecution-of-Christians label,’ says Syria expert
- ‘Indonesia’s most important extremist ideologue’ faces death over church bombing
- Egypt’s disappearing Coptic women and girls
- Trump tells Buhari: ‘We cannot allow Christians to be murdered’
- Ethiopian Evangelical who ‘outraged religious feeling’ given second chance to appeal
- Malaysian bishops: ‘We need leaders who truly care for the people’
- Nigerian bishops call for Buhari to resign over church massacre
- India: case of murdered Dalit pastor not taken seriously, say victim’s friends
- Pakistan’s top judge says he’ll hear Asia Bibi’s appeal personally – and ‘soon’
- Nigeria: pressure on Buhari to act increases after latest massacre
- Pakistan: family of Christian boy killed by police compensated in ‘rare victory’
- On trial for terrorism and espionage in a Turkish court
- ‘Giving freedom to women is something remarkable’ – Egypt’s Protestant head
- Coptic teacher cleared of contempt of religion for questions about Muhammad
- Algeria: church-run nursery ordered to close
- Pakistani Christian dies after being set on fire by Muslim in alleged dispute over who should convert
- Erdogan demands Gulen extradition for US pastor’s release
- Egypt: Protestant leader rejects community reconciliation system
- Iran: do non-Muslims have the right to hold elected public office or not?
- Egypt church application triggers attack
- Sudan: Four Christians charged, 36 others to stand trial
- Cuba’s new leader ‘not a reformer’
- Indian police play down mob attack on Christian meeting
- Turkish court puts trial of US pastor on hold for three weeks
- China: ‘For Christians, the “grey” area is shrinking’
- 97 missing Chibok girls feared dead
- Iranian Christian arrested 45 days ago tells family: ‘I’m in Evin Prison’
- The scars that don’t heal: Bangui pastor recalls church shelling
- Chibok abductions: ‘We are bitter, 112 girls are still in the hands of Boko Haram’
- US: No evidence Pastor Brunson guilty of any crime
- Evangelical head sets out ambitious vision for rebuilding CAR
- Nigerian president assures UK archbishop of efforts to secure release of Christian girl
- China: clampdown reaches Christians in Henan
- India: major faiths reject use of religious identity for political gain
- China pledges to protect religious freedom, days after Bible ban
- Thousands of churches closed in Rwanda, as Cameroon considers following suit
- Indian Christians charged with ‘hurting religious sentiments’ by handing out Easter tracts
- Palestinian father who lost daughter: ‘Don’t be pro-Palestinian or pro-Israel, be pro-justice’
- Iraq’s Assyrian Christians: persecution and resurgence
- Five years on, Central African Republic crisis deepens
- Easter in Qaraqosh – for many their first since returning home
- Persecuted Christians celebrate Easter with mixed emotions
- ‘Finally my father is home’ – Slimane Bouhafs released after 18 months in jail
- India: Baptism service violently halted by Hindu mob claiming ‘forced conversions’
- Nigerian Christian who lost husband in Fulani attack: ‘I returned to encourage other women to do the same’
- Indonesia church bomb attack victim Trinity, 5, healing well, father says
- Good Friday holiday reinstated in Christian-majority Indian state after protests
- India: Telangana Christians ‘terrified’ after Palm Sunday attack
- Turkey’s Churches publish landmark book of common Christian doctrine
- Eritrea: Newlyweds among 32 Christians arrested in fresh crackdown
- Dozens killed in CAR, including priest who planned to move
- Elderly Christian woman murdered in India – family say she was targeted, police say killer ‘mad’
- Palm Sunday celebrations mark revival of life in Qaraqosh
- Pakistan court acquits 20 in case of Christian couple burnt alive
- Egyptian mob celebrates blocking application for new church
- Alexandria Palm Sunday bombing, one year on – lone dad who lost his wife, uncle and nephew
- India: police leave Catholic hospital separated from power supply after attack
- Pakistan Christian escapes death for ‘clearly fabricated’ blasphemy
- Algeria closes fourth church in four months
- Ethiopian Protestant loses appeal against prison sentence for ‘causing outrage to religious peace and feeling’
- Coptic teacher charged with contempt of religion for questions about Muhammad
- Turkey: date set for trial of US pastor Andrew Brunson
- Fresh move to prosecute IS for genocide
- Easter banner torn down from Pakistan church
- North Korean explains growing up under Kim dynasty, and how his perception of Christianity changed
- 5 years on, what has Pope Francis done for religious freedom?
- Copt soldier’s family say he didn’t commit suicide, he was killed
- Nigeria: Unexploded Air Force bombs found in shelled Christian village
- UN ‘failing’ Eritrea’s detained Christians
- Algeria government criticised over heavy fines for transporting Bibles
- Hmong Christians hospitalised after mob attack in Vietnam’s northwest
- Philippines: Mindanao gets first deputy governor for Christians
- Pakistan Christian still on death row, five years after his ‘blasphemy’ sparked Joseph Colony attack
- India: Church leaders deplore bulldozing of hospital premises in BJP-ruled state
- Dozens killed in spate of violence in Nigeria’s Middle Belt
- Turkey calls for life imprisonment of US pastor Andrew Brunson
- Egypt’s elections and the man dividing the country’s Copts
- Jailed US pastor’s daughter addresses UN Human Rights Council
- Pakistan court orders citizens to declare religion
- Nigeria Christians want International Criminal Court to investigate Air Force ‘complicity’ in ‘genocide’
- Egypt: Copts’ cross tattoos lead to harassment, insults
- Protest organiser arrested as Nigerian Christians call for end to herdsmen killings
- Iraq: Christian family stabbed to death in Baghdad
- Indian policeman joins 50-strong Hindu mob’s attack on churches
- Iran: Christian retreat centre ordered to close by tomorrow
- Algeria government denies church closures are discrimination
- Central African Republic: church elder among six aid workers hacked to death
- Beheaded Copts’ remains to be returned to families after three-year wait
- Bloody clashes in Kaduna as Christian youths resist dating and conversion of Christian girls
- Christian women at double risk of persecution – because of gender as well as religion
- Colombia: the #OfCourseMeToo of Christian women and girls
- Kyrgyzstan Baptists repair church after arson attack
- Pakistan: Christian family attacked for helping build church wall
- In Uzbekistan, religious freedoms ‘not recognised in law and practice’ – UN Special Rapporteur
- India: Six Christians injured following Hindu attack over baby’s burial
- Algerian pastor decries church closure
- India: Tamil Nadu continues to lead the way in violent attacks on Christians
- Marawi’s rebuilding yet to start, despite warning that defeating extremism depends on it
- Indonesia Christians’ whipping a rare example of non-Muslims punished under Sharia
- Death and destruction as Boko Haram launches fresh attacks in Cameroon
- Algeria: two more churches closed, others threatened
- Iran: Christians held in notorious Evin Prison ‘will never be the same’
- Malaysian Federal Court refuses four people their right to affirm Christian identity
- Pakistan blasphemy suspect says he jumped from fourth floor to escape forced sex act
- Indonesia: Ahok’s appeal ‘last chance’ to clear name
- Dagestan church attacker linked to militant group, as unlikely hero emerges
- Amnesty: ‘Discrimination rife in all regions of the world … with deadly consequences’
- Saudi Arabia is modernising, but will this mean greater freedom for religious minorities?
- Turkish state blocks election of a new Armenian Patriarch
- India: Videos show Hindu nationalists attacking Christians, burning Bibles
- Kenya: engaged couple killed, together with fellow primary school teacher, by suspected Al-Shabaab attackers
- Indonesia: Ahok asks Supreme Court to review his blasphemy sentence
- Imam calls for radical reforms to end extremism and safeguard Eastern Christians
- Pakistan: 800 Christian families flee neighbourhood after blasphemy accusation
- Iraq archbishop invites Muslim nations to rebuild Christian villages destroyed by IS
- Boko Haram strikes again in northern Cameroon, killing pregnant woman and setting church on fire
- 2017 ‘one of the most traumatic years for Indian Christians’
- Russia: ‘Extremist’ identified after five women killed in Dagestan church attack
- Iranian Christian convert detained since before Christmas
- Asia Bibi central to trade deals, EU tells Pakistan
- Egypt’s Copts flock to see church opened in remembrance of beheaded Christians
- India: Catholic bishops warn against Hindu nationalism as religious hate crimes rise
- Indonesia church attacker acted alone, police say
- Church built to honour beheaded Copts, but families still waiting for bodies’ return
- US agency accuses Russia of abusing anti-extremism laws
- Pakistani Christian says daughter, 12, abducted, forced to convert to Islam and marry
- Sudan government demolishes church despite pending appeal
- Nigeria: 9 churches burnt down and Christian students attacked as violence continues
- Nigerian bishops accuse government of failing to protect citizens from ‘terrorist’ herdsmen
- Otto Warmbier’s father joins Pence at Olympics to highlight North Korean abuses
- UN denies complicity in Central African Republic massacres, but questions remain
- Ethiopian Evangelical sent to prison for ‘insulting’ Orthodox Church
- Malaysia’s reputation as moderate Muslim nation hangs by a thread
- Two priests murdered in Mexico as gang attacks against religious leaders continue
- Syria’s second city begins long road to recovery
- Sudanese church leaders back in court
- The woman who lost half her face in Cairo church attack
- New report finds ‘flicker of hope’ in North Korea
- Bomb scare intimidates another church in Turkey
- Father Tom releases book about 18 months’ captivity in Yemen
- Nigeria: 75 killed in renewed Fulani attacks on Christian community in Plateau
- Nigerian Air Force complicit in massacre of Christian villagers, says Amnesty
- China: 100 Christians sent to ‘re-education’ camps in Xinjiang
- China’s new religion regulations expected to increase pressure on Christians
- Malaysia church attacks highlight growth of Islamic extremism
- Egypt: Church owner fined, attackers given suspended sentences
- Kidnapped Colombian nun appears in another hostage video
- Chinese bishop reshuffle reinforces fears of state meddling
- Uganda: Refusal to convert to Islam ends in family tragedy
- Boko Haram sets churches on fire in latest attack on Cameroon’s Far North
- Bolivian Christians can still evangelise … for now
- Evangelical churches in Turkmenistan want official registration
- Do Christians really ‘thrive’ in Israel?
- Iran protests saw people ‘turn their backs on political Islam’
- Pakistan: Christian cleaner dies at work, leaving wife and two children
- US installs Sam Brownback as religious freedom ambassador
- Syria church leader condemns Turkey’s ‘unjustified aggression’
- Niger’s churches rebuilt, but West African nation ‘no longer tolerant’
- For Chinese Muslims the cost of becoming a Christian is loneliness
- Jailed US pastor still refused ‘due process’ in Turkey
- Indian Christian complained of threats before he was found dead
- China: 6 Christians jailed as pressure on churches increases
- Philippines: Marawi hostage recalls escape from IS killers
- Syrian church in Turkish-hit enclave calls for aid
- Pence’s plans to help Middle East Christians overshadowed by political storm
- Egypt: Copt thrown out of village and fined over ‘attack’ he denies
- Malaysian pastor Raymond Koh’s kidnap inquiry halted
- UK Parliament hears ‘squeeze’ of persecution of Christians ‘as dangerous as violence’
- Catholic priest stabbed as violence continues in Central African Republic
- Pakistani Christian girl, 13, raped by fellow worker in field
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- 45 killed in yet another attack on Christian communities in Kaduna
- 75,000 children in N. Nigeria risk ‘dying of hunger’; 14 million need humanitarian aid, says UN
- UPDATE: Ethiopian girls in prison for a book ‘countering attacks on Christianity’
- ‘Coming back’ – a poem scribbled on a church wall in Homs
- Child marriage becoming a ‘cloud of crisis’ – N. Nigerian Christian leaders warn President
- Moldova – striving to make a difference despite corruption and suspicion
- ‘So afraid I almost fainted’ – Iran Christian on brother’s arrest
- Bishop’s wife saved husband from Iranian extremists, but lost her only son
- 6 steps to being a ‘refugee’ in your own country
- ‘Worship in the woods’ a year after Islamic extremists destroy Aceh churches
- Syrian Christian pastor -“I don’t feel ‘seduced’ to leave Aleppo”
- Syrian Christian spearheads ‘one million voices’ petition to support Church to stay in Middle East
- UPDATE: Iran allows Azerbaijani Christians home on ‘conditional’ release
- UPDATE: Another Chibok schoolgirl escapes with baby
- UPDATE: Nigeria: suspects in blasphemy case released
- Algerian converts denied Christian funerals
- UPDATE: Protests in Algeria for release of sick Christian
- Two Pakistani Christian families escape blasphemy accusations
- Alqosh, the last Christian town in Iraq, is here to stay
- Aleppo churches open doors to displaced Muslim families
- Christian convert in French refugee camp told: ‘We will kill you’
- The Cross, deemed illegal by IS, returns to Iraq’s Nineveh Plain
- Christian children ‘singled out for bullying’ in Egyptian classrooms
- Pakistani church leader and family hospitalised over house dispute
- UK Foreign Office hosts global summit on freedom of religion or belief
- Aleppo: ‘Monsters devour one another in city of death and destruction’
- Christianity once considered a ‘disease’, but now ‘tolerated’ in Cuba
- The potential impact of US elections on the Church in Cuba
- Why the Cuban Church is still under pressure
- Nigerian Middle Belt state: 800+ Christians killed, 800+ injured, 100+ churches destroyed
- Iraqi Christian girls, hiding under bed from IS, text priest: ‘Please come for us’
- More Iraqi towns ‘freed’ but Nineveh Christians not confident about safe return
- 12 killed in attack ‘by Al-Shabaab gunmen targeting Kenyan Christians’
- Germany refugee centre an ‘example for others’ dealing with interfaith conflict
- Iraqi Christians look homeward toward Mosul, uncertainly
- US academic and refugee aid worker ‘banned for life’ from Turkey
- 40 killed as suspected Fulani herdsmen raid Christian community in Nigeria
- Kidnap in Niger of US missionary a ‘terrible tragedy’
- As retake of Mosul looms, Muslim extremism has already emptied Iraq of Christians
- ‘Accelerated targeting’ of ‘disproportionately suffering’ Middle East Christians
- Iran: 2 Christians released on bail but 3 detained
- Life for some Christians in German refugee shelters ‘still unbearable’
- Cairo bishop urges Church to be ready for martyrdom
- Monk living near Mosul: ‘Persecution is a pride for us’
- UPDATE: At least 23 killed in fresh attack in north of C. African Republic
- Asia Bibi’s appeal delayed; 150 Islamic leaders call for her to hang, whatever the outcome
- Slashed by machetes and left for dead in the DRC
- Sudan detains 6 Christians, threatens to demolish 5 churches
- Lawyers ‘threatened’ in boy’s Kaaba ‘blasphemy’ case
- Pakistan: Christian boy, 14, raped and hung from tree, but police say death ‘natural’
- Nigerian Fulani herdsmen’s attacks continue amidst government inaction
- ‘Peaceful’ Buddhism’s violent face in Sri Lanka
- Iranian converts appeal against lashes for ‘illegal’ Communion wine
- 5 years since Maspero, Egypt’s Copts denied permit to remember 27 dead
- Al-Shabaab claims killing of 6 Christians in northeast Kenya raid
- Azerbaijan registers Bible Society after 20 years, but will it be able to print Bibles?
- Arab and Jew ‘cross the divide’ through shared faith
- UPDATE: Malatya murderers re-arrested over fears they may flee Turkey
- Survivors’ stories: life after Islamic State violence
- Run over by US tank, run out of his home by IS: Iraqi monk’s own experience helps others
- When Mosul is freed, Christians may face a new crisis
- ‘We are in a catastrophe’
- China tightens grip on religion
- Pakistan: Christian boy, 16, arrested for Kaaba ‘blasphemy’
- What does the inside of a refugee camp in Lebanon look like?
- Freedom of religion or belief ‘the defining issue of our time’
- Hungary opens first ever office to tackle Christian persecution
- Autonomous Nineveh ‘would preserve Christians and secure West’s interests’
- Turkmenistan: No change soon for religious minorities after Consitution amended
- What next for India’s beleaguered Christian minority?
- ‘Part of our heart is missing’: parents of girl held by IS
- Rising Islamist militancy across Sahel belt threatens African Christianity
- Uzbek pastor: ‘It will be even worse after Karimov’
- Funeral held for Pakistani Christian killed in Peshawar attack
- In violence-racked Baghdad, the few Christians still there struggle to cope
- Pakistan: One killed after attack on Christian colony
- Uzbek pastor and family granted asylum in US after 9-year ordeal
- Prosecutor demands ‘harshest punishment’ for pastors charged with highlighting Sudan Christians’ suffering
- ‘ISIS on a mission to exterminate Christians’
- FARC: ‘Colombia wins, death loses’ in peace deal, but not everyone is convinced
- Report: Pakistan school textbooks riddled with religious ‘hate material’
- Egypt’s Coptic Church rejects amendments to long-awaited church-building law
- Sudan pastors charged for ‘claiming persecution of Christians’
- Nepal Christians attacked while trying to help
- Nigerian Christians return to rebuild lives in communities liberated from Boko Haram
- DRC pastor – ‘We don’t understand why this is happening to us’
- Seven charges against Sudan’s pastors unlawfully detained for months
- India Chief Justice: Lack of convictions over Kandhamal violence ‘very disturbing’
- Coptic priests in Gulf meet to discuss challenges
- Libya ‘chaos’ makes it one of world’s most dangerous places to be a Christian
- Convert explains journey to Christianity, and why he left Iran
- In new report on religious freedom, US government turns its attention to blasphemy laws
- Iraq: 2 years since Nineveh fell to IS, displaced Christians pray for ‘liberation’
- Iraqi Christians confront two-year trauma with drama
- UPDATE: Attack by suspected militants leaves 7 dead in DRC
- Unlawfully detained for months, Sudan church leaders finally in court
- ‘We have no voice’: Christians in Jordan 2 years after fleeing N. Iraq
- Families of murdered Nigerian pastors mourn their loss
- Indian Supreme Court rules compensation for worst-ever anti-Christian violence ‘not enough’
- Myanmar’s Christian population grows to 6.2 per cent
- Nigerian women lose husbands, homes and sometimes their minds to extremist violence
- Egypt convert’s legal limbo finally brings him ‘back to Islam’
- Anti-Christian violence in India at an ‘alarming level’
- 2 years after IS drove them from their homes, Iraqi Christians ‘are still in survival mode’, bishop says
- Copts attacked, forced to settle for nothing, in absence of Egyptian justice
- The murder of a French priest has horrified the world. The same thing happens to Christians in lesser-reported places
- UPDATE: Fresh attacks on Christian villages in Benue, Central Nigeria
- Now hunger threatens Nigerian Christians who’ve fled Boko Haram
- Coptic Pope prays in ancient church symbolic of past persecutions
- Iraq’s Mosul Archbishop had to pay ‘protection money’ before his 2008 kidnap and death
- A dozen incidents against Egypt’s Copts in 7 weeks
- Turkey: churches targeted during attempted coup
- Pakistan: father expects no justice for raped 16-year-old daughter
- UPDATE: Four police officers charged with killing Christian lawyer in Kenya
- Russia: Church reacts as ‘anti-missionary bill’ becomes law
- Coptic Bishop: Egypt ‘diseased’ with discrimination
- UPDATE: Nigerian Christians told to ‘buckle up’ after preacher hacked to death
- Pakistan: Christian family flees after WhatsApp blasphemy accusation
- Sudan’s Christians face ‘ethnic cleansing’
- Central Asian Christians feel repercussions of governments’ focus on Islamist threat
- Pastor hacked to death in Nasarawa, C. Nigeria
- Colombian Church sceptical over FARC deal
- Colombia: How will FARC deal impact the Church?
- Human rights must not ‘go down’ because ‘EU has other priorities’
- Pakistani Christian who sought police help instead faces death for ‘blasphemy’
- 5 Pakistani Christians released, 2 jailed for ‘blasphemy’ of calling pastor a ‘prophet’
- ‘House church’ prompts Muslims to attack Christian homes in Alexandria
- Attempt on Syriac Patriarch commemorating genocide
- Al-Azhar: to leave Islam is ‘treason’
- Pakistani Christian shot, family attacked after he asks for pay
- Swiss missionary kidnapped in Mali ‘still alive’
- Pakistani policeman beats up church leader over ‘loudspeaker music’
- Mexican Protestants continue to face pressure for leaving ‘traditionalist’ churches
- ‘Refer Eritrea to ICC for crime against humanity of persecution’
- Iraq: Why Najiba can’t go home
- Nigeria considers giving Islamic appeals courts authority to take criminal cases
- Malaysian bill amendment to tighten Sharia punishments alarms non-Muslims
- Pakistani Christians on the run after blasphemy accusation
- Bishop pleads for justice as attack on Copt grandmother ‘stripped naked’ stirs Egypt
- Freedom of religion or belief ‘undermined’ in corrupt countries
- Argentinian Baptist pastor continues to face intimidation, threats
- Khartoum re-arrests pastor, holds others ‘pending serious charges’
- ‘Boko Haram is 100% a Muslim problem,’ says Sheikh
- Freedom of religion among Myanmar’s ‘biggest challenges’
- Pakistan: Christian woman refuses to leave home after blasphemy accusation
- Khartoum releases Christian minister, holds another ‘pending charges’
- Kazakhstan church raids a ‘backward step’
- ‘Can Christians be butchers?’ Tanzania’s Islamist tensions continue
- Second Chibok girl rescued, says Nigerian army
- Egypt Parliament to discuss easing restrictions on church-building
- NGOs appeal to Congo’s President to stop ‘massacre’
- Pakistan police deny Christian-Muslim tension after blasphemy allegation
- Return of one Chibok girl raises Nigeria’s hopes for the 218 still missing
- Hostile homecoming for Mexican Protestant after exile
- Religion-driven hostility to Christians follows them to German refugee centres
- US lawmaker pledges to push for special envoy to Nigeria
- DR Congo death toll nears 50 after second attack
- European Parliament debates Nigeria and Boko Haram
- Syrian priest: ‘No words to describe the suffering’
- DR Congo – Christians killed, as thousands flee continuing Islamist violence
- Third church in four months burnt down in N. Tanzania
- The UN is about to take a very close look at Sudan’s treatment of Christians
- US religious-freedom report urges government to add 7 countries to worst-offenders list
- Algerian churches still fighting for freedom of worship
- Vietnam’s Religion Law ‘created to repress, control’
- ‘Losing my religion’ – why it’s so hard in the Middle East
- Coptic teenager kidnapped for ransom in Upper Egypt
- Indian pastor and pregnant wife attacked by militant Hindus
- UK Parliament votes that Islamic State commits ‘genocide’
- Pakistan court grants bail to chief suspect in oven killings of Christian couple
- Saudi Arabia limits powers of its religious police
- REPORT: The impact of Christians leaving Middle East
- Some Chibok girls alive, but families’ agony goes on
- Bhutan – a ‘happy’ place, but not for all
- Eritrean church leaders still in jail 12 years later
- UPDATE: A ‘shaming’ of Christians in Pakistan schoolbooks
- Islamists close Indonesian church weeks after it opened
- Khartoum keeps 5 Christian leaders under daily surveillance
- Pakistani Christians in Thailand given temporary ID cards
- Turkey seizes six churches as state property in volatile southeast
- Priest’s crucifixion rumours false, says India’s Foreign Minister
- Kenyans mourn 147 victims on anniversary of Garissa attack
- Egypt: Copt cleared of Facebook ‘blasphemy’
- Kandhamal Christian granted month’s bail after 7 years in jail
- Faith-based persecution on the rise in Asia-Pacific
- Pakistani Christians bury their dead after Easter massacre
- CAR’s new President brings hope, but hunger threatens ‘new start’
- Malaysian court upholds right to convert from Islam
- Christian women face double vulnerability due to gender and religion
- Village massacres strain Nigeria further, as traditional nomads fight modernisation
- North Korea sentences American to 15 years’ labour
- Enterprising Christians see hope, despite Syria’s five years of war
- US lawmakers accuse IS of genocide
- UPDATE: Hundreds killed in Nigeria attacks
- Egypt: ‘suicide’ claim for third Christian conscript in nine months
- Gunmen kill 4 nuns and 12 others in Yemen
- Christians fleeing Pakistan are stuck in Thailand
- Coptic headmistress denied promotion ‘for being Christian’
- Pakistan hangs killer of Governor who challenged blasphemy law
- Calais ‘Jungle’ camp demolition to begin
- Turkey backs down on closing Bursa’s only church
- Nigeria churches unite for first time to address violence in north
- How romance across Egypt’s religious divide forces women and Christians to pay a high price
- Living as a Christian in the Islamic State
- Christian migrants find discrimination follows them to Europe
- Turkey’s Protestants ‘anxious and distressed’
- Pope Francis meets Patriarch Kirill
- Egypt: Coptic teens tried for video ‘mimicking jihadists’
- Christian leaders kept in Sudan since December uncharged, but incommunicado
- EU puts ‘genocide’ tag on Islamic State
- Christian and Muslim leaders call for peace in Cameroon
- The war on Christianity in the Congo
- Fierce battles in southeast Turkey hedge in Christians
- Minorities fear backlash over Sri Lanka’s proposed new constitution
- In India, one case of anti-Christian violence every day
- Niger: a year after 70 churches destroyed in anti-‘Charlie’ riots
- Burkina Faso dead include 7 mission workers
- Three attacks on Pakistani Christians mark New Year
- Another Egyptian Christian conscript dies in ‘mysterious’ circumstances
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- Dare Egypt’s new Parliament amend or even abolish its blasphemy law?
- Indian Church denies rumours it supports Hindu nationalist party
- Egypt’s imams and priests confront sectarianism together
- Pakistani Christians face eviction from Islamabad slums
- Indonesian churches celebrate Christmas without building – or even tent
- Thinking of home this Christmas, displaced Iraqi Christians look ahead with hope
- Indian Christians frustrated by Good Governance Day ‘distraction’ at Christmas
- Iranian pastor released after 5 years in jail
- Christian women in Baghdad face intimidation to veil
- Three killed outside ‘Christian’ radio station in Mali
- 5 years on: what has the Arab Spring meant for Christians?
- Egyptian brothers add to tally of Christians killed in Libya
- After Aung San Suu Kyi’s election win, Myanmar’s displaced Kachin are hopeful they can go home for Christmas
- 18 Chibok parents have died as wait for girls goes on
- Erbil airport closure delays Christians leaving Iraq for Europe
- Indian nationalists blame other faiths as census shows Hindus in decline
- Woman who survived 5 weeks in Boko Haram camp speaks for first time
- CAR: Pope Francis calls for unity between Catholics and Protestants
- Ethnic cleansing of Christians in central Nigeria too?
- Special Report: Violence Against Women
- Pope in Africa says conflict ‘feeds on fear, mistrust and despair’
- Vulnerability of women exploited to jeopardise Christian communities
- Boko Haram ‘more deadly terror group’ in 2014 than IS
- ‘You come here and take our jobs,’ Lebanese tell refugees
- Egyptian Copt’s ‘faked Facebook blasphemy’ acquittal delayed
- Forces rally to defend Christian Syrian town from IS
- Myanmar’s Christians cautiously hopeful
- BJP’s Bihar defeat a vote against ‘intolerance’
- Fleeing Boko Haram – nowhere to run, nowhere to hide
- 37 Assyrian Christians released in Syria
- India: village church attacked, Christians hospitalised
- Global Church meets to seek unity in face of persecution
- UN report focuses on children’s rights
- Pakistan NGO tackles demeaning low-caste word for ‘Christians’
- Christian lawyers call for Chinese colleagues’ release
- Two Sudan churches destroyed, one for a ‘marketplace’
- Asia Bibi ‘healthy and safe,’ says her lawyer
- No charges for attackers of Pakistani headmaster
- Indian court provides ‘minor relief’ from ban on Christianity
- Church attack routs thousands of Indonesian Christians
- Report: Christianity contracting in MidEast, Africa
- Police raid Sat-7 channel’s Egypt offices
- Pakistan’s Supreme Court makes landmark judgment
- Qadri verdict a ‘victory over terrorism’
- Ethiopian village church attacked
- DR Congo – Islamist militias threaten central Africa too
- IS releases first execution video of Syrian Christians
- Indian Parliamentarians propose ban on conversions
- Egyptian land dispute threatens inter-religious flashpoint
- Top pastor escapes death amidst renewed violence in CAR
- Six churches torched in Tanzania
- Three arrested after Nepal church bombings
- Pakistan: 23 unreported ‘blasphemy’ cases in 2 years
- Argentinian pastor’s fight for religious freedom goes on
- Indonesian church holds 100th service outside Presidential palace
- Analysis: Latin American Christians need protection from organized crime
- Call to the European Church to stand with refugees
- Analysis: What to make of China’s demolition of crosses?
- Religious freedom in the Arabian Peninsula?
- Religious freedom network should be as ‘outspoken and organised’ as the extremists
- Coptic soldier’s father challenges military autopsy
- Iraq’s ISIS survivors adjust to life in a refugee camp
- Malatya murder suspects make final appeals
- NE India – Manipur violence sparks fears of religious conflict
- India’s Christians are under attack
- Sixth Indian state seeks to adopt ‘anti-conversion law’
- Maiduguri ‘open’ again despite renewed Boko Haram activity
- Ethiopian Christians cleared of holding ‘illegal meetings’
- Death threats target Turkey’s Protestants
- Four years of bombings in Sudan’s Nuba Mountains
- Nepal on verge of curbing religious freedom
- Religious freedom a ‘reality’ in recovering CAR
- Ethiopian Orthodox leaders jailed after protesting about persecution
- Kandhamal couple’s shooting evokes darkest memories for India’s Christians
- Jihadists release Syrian priest, 22 elderly Assyrians
- Calais church shows migrants’ ‘gigantic’ faith
- A migrant’s story
- Korea: Still divided 70 years on
- Indonesia: Religious riot in Papua prompts church attacks elsewhere
- Nepali constitution could render Christianity illegal
- Egypt court reconsiders Christian’s blasphemy conviction
- S. Sudan pastors accused of spying freed
- Boko Haram attacks intensify in Nigeria & Cameroon
- A convert’s story
- Central African Republic – A forgotten crisis
- Obama visit puts Ethiopia’s record in spotlight
- ‘Saints of Bangui’ try to calm chaotic CAR
- Malaysian government gives back Ireland’s ‘Allah’ CDs
- Niger churches ‘abandoned’ after Charlie Hebdo destruction
- Asia Bibi’s last chance for freedom
- Coptic boy’s Ramadan gesture ends in detention
- Birthday for a missing girl
- Are Nigeria’s ‘Middle Belt’ Christians victims of ethnic cleansing?
- Are Nigeria’s ‘Middle Belt’ Christians victims of ethnic cleansing?
- How does a man kill ‘in God’s name’? asks former UK Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks
- Boko Haram victim ‘left for dead’ in 2012 loses sister and her two children in church bomb
- Police rescue Pakistani Christian from ‘mob justice’ over blasphemy
- S Sudan pastors will face trial, judge rules
- Egyptian solider, the only Christian in his unit, found dead
- Modi’s UN Yoga Day latest example of co-incidence with Christian ‘high days and holidays’
- Case of the disappearing Christian CDs: 7 years on, Malaysian court orders their return
- Egyptian convert still in jail having served his time
- Coptic boys on bail, anti-Islam charges pending
- Community ‘justice’ expels Copts from their homes
- Central Asia in the spotlight as Azerbaijan hosts European Games
- Second mentally ill Pakistani in 2 weeks charged with desecrating Quran
- Home at last in Mexico
- Forced out by ISIS, Iraq’s Christians start over
- S. Sudan pastors face death penalty on charges of sedition and spying
- EU ‘must do more’ to stop religious freedom abuses
- Iran pastor Fathi’s appeal fails, against extra year in prison and 74 lashes
- Pakistan ‘mob justice’ against mentally ill man prevented, but riots ensue
- Buhari takes office after election ‘miracle’
- Christians remain cautious about Modi
- Collateral damage? 63 churches hit in Syrian civil war
- In Myanmar, Christian rebels are in double trouble
- UPDATE: Trial of S. Sudan pastors begins, then is delayed
- Libya: ‘a country where Christians shouldn’t come’
- Good news in Nigeria, but not for Chibok girls, yet
- Vietnam’s Religion Law
- ‘We are going through a terrible moment’
- CAR warring factions devote a week to peace
- Christian journalists threatened in Pakistan
- 2014: A year of particular concern
- Vietnam’s two faces
- Nepal’s long-delayed transition to democracy worries its Christians
- Video mocking IS causes riots in Egypt
- Overcoming a century of pain
- Syriac priest wrestles with Turkey’s ethnic tensions
- Confusion around Pakistani Christian boy’s burns death, amid communal tensions
- A year gone
- ‘I need God to help me forget’
- Hope – and anxiety – after Buhari’s win
- Turkish authorities ask tiny Christian community to help Yazidi refugees
- Kenya mourns students ‘killed while praying’
- Al-Shabaab targets Christians in Kenyan college attack
- Turkey’s Orthodox and Protestants mend centuries of mistrust
- Assyrian Christians flee jihadists to southeast Turkey
- The man who talks to Boko Haram
- ‘Are you ready to renounce your Christian faith?’
- Delhi protest marks 300 days of BJP in India
- Boko Haram headlines hide persecution of Christians in mid-Nigeria, too
- Gunmen kill 100 Christian villagers in central Nigeria
- Bombers kill 17, injure at least 80 in Pakistan church attacks
- Indian beef ban hits ‘untouchable’ Dalits hardest
- Four years since teenage graffiti sparks Syrian civil war
- Iranian President’s broken promises to minorities
- Reports of ‘blanket’ release of Assyrians dashed
- Mother accuses Pakistan police of killing son by torture
- Missionary, kidnapped in Nigeria, released
- 23 Assyrian Christians released in Syria
- Malaysian ‘Islamic Council’s right to intervene’ over Christian’s CDs dismissed
- Indian police beat Christian evangelists
- Nigerians, fearing election violence, forfeit vote to move to other end of country
- Iranian pastor released from prison but others arrested same day remain
- Sporadic violence builds tension in CAR, many Christians victims
- Among the FARC, a growing Christian presence
- 72 Assyrian Christian families captured, 50 besieged by IS after Syria attack
- IS invades 35 Assyrian towns in Syria
- Indian priest kidnapped in Afghanistan released after eight months
- After ‘Charlie’: latest incident of Pakistani Christians targeted by Muslim anger
- Shooting of witness threatens trial of Coptic Christians’ murderers
- India’s Modi breaks silence on protecting minorities, but urged to ‘walk the talk’
- Fears growing for two South Sudan pastors held by Sudan intelligence
- Egypt seeks international help against IS after 21 Christians beheaded
- A battle lost, a campaign still to win
- Kachin rebels snub Myanmar ceasefire deal after women’s murders
- Boko Haram’s attacks spread into Niger sparking mass exodus
- Organised crime is making life worse for Latin America Christians
- Indian bureaucrat convert to challenge preaching ban
- Iraqi Christians still held by Islamic State ‘against their will’
- Bureaucratic delays put Egyptian convert’s appeal at risk
- Recent violence in Niger shows growing intolerance among religious groups
- Ahead of Obama’s visit, India’s Christians start hotline on Hindu harassment
- Libyan militants hold 20 Egyptian Christians hostage
- Kidnapped CAR Cleric & French aid worker released
- Accused perpetrators released in Malatya murder trial
- Turkey ‘promises’ first new church in 90 years
- 70+ churches destroyed as ‘anti-Charlie’ protests spread in Niger
- Imprisoned Bhutanese pastors freed early
- Churches burned down over anti-Charlie Hebdo demonstration in Niger
- Christmas arrests in Iran: 11 still detained
- Paris attacks parallel fears over growing jihadist threat in Africa
- VIDEO: Amidst hopes of Jokowi, Indonesian Christians remain concerned
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- Pakistani Christian couple ‘still alive’ when thrown into kiln – coroner
- India Hindu leaders turn up ‘reconversion’ rhetoric
- Iraqi Yazidi couple flees ISIS to freedom
- Christmas 2014 ‘evokes not joy but fears’ for India’s Christians
- Three more cases in which Pakistani Christians accused of blasphemy
- Human Rights Day but Article 18 violated every day
- Lawyer: ‘Egyptian convert’s arrest linked to leaving Islam’
- ‘Secret church’ served with coffee & cakes in Central Asian cafes
- Clampdown on Sudan’s churches
- Dispatch from Aleppo
- Muslim and Christian leaders pledge to promote dialogue in Great Lakes region
- Taliban murder four humanitarian aid workers in Kabul
- Al-Shabaab kills 36 Kenyan Christians on Somali border
- Pope Francis addresses plight of Christians in Turkish visit
- Northern Christians accuse government of neglect as Boko Haram continue its killing spree
- Hundreds of Islamist extremists mob a Christian school
- Peace prize awarded to Central African Republic top clerics
- Turkey plans new global Islamic university
- ‘Kidnapping,’ forced conversion and collective punishment haunt Egypt’s Copts
- Death sentence for Pakistan woman turned on technicality
- Bail granted for pastors nearly mobbed for sharing their faith in Bangladesh
- Jordan deports American pastor, assistant’s eviction pending
- Analysis: Distinction between ‘moderate Islamists’ and ‘militant extremists’ is misleading for Western governments
- Jailed Egyptian convert awaits appeal hearing
- Pakistani Christian couple brutally killed by mob for alleged ‘blasphemy’
- Second Turkish trial implicates authorities in planned attack on church leaders
- Tension simmers following attack on Christians in troubled Bastar
- Turkish public education system to offer class in Christianity for first time
- ‘We’re tired, so tired …there’s so much to do and we’re only human’
- India minister says no special caste status for Christians
- Malatya murder trial defendants exploit Turkish government ‘witch-hunt’
- Attack on India prayer meeting puts 25 in hospital
- Understand concept of ‘infidel’ to understand risks of Islamic radicalization
- Tanzanian teacher murdered in church, pastor and wife on Zanzibar attacked by extremists
- Priest kidnapped, dozens killed amidst renewed violence in C. African Rep
- Claim of truce raises hope that kidnapped Nigerian girls will be released
- Pakistan court upholds death penalty for Asia Bibi despite serious legal loophole in trial
- Iran appears to fight Islamic State, but are their ultimate goals too similar for comfort?
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- As UN targeted by Islamists in Mali, Bishops urge renewed peace efforts
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- Indian Christian man forced to separate from Hindu wife by right-wing activists
- Amidst political turmoil, continuing blasphemy charges for Pakistani Christians
- Arab churches’ key contribution to Iraqi relief
- Algerian Christians: ‘We must not yield to fear’
- Turkey closes down Protestant church
- New modern Persian Bible launched in UK and Turkey
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- Nigerian Bishops: ‘Stop playing politics, protect innocent citizens’
- New urgency for an old idea: Nineveh
- Two pastors among 100s killed as UN takes over peacekeeping in CAR
- Nigerian Christians: ‘We are on the run’
- Recently engaged man loses his fiancée, mother and nephew in IS Baghdad bombings
- Iraqi Erbil priest: “We aim to treat our refugees as guests”
- Egyptian fire crew in no hurry to put out church fire
- Cameroon’s churches struggle to cope with Boko Haram spillover
- An old story under India’s new government
- Iraq: last Christians to leave Bartella
- Protestant union issues ‘urgent appeal’ to help Iraqi Christians
- IS leaflets spread in Pakistan; 1200 Christians displaced as army attacked militants
- Islamists want to ‘wipe out’ Christian presence in northern Mali
- ‘We want to stay in Iraq, but can’t live like this anymore’
- Nepali pastor leaves prison after 2 years for killing a cow
- ‘Future of Church in NE Nigeria also threatened’ says Chibok leader
- ‘One week’ deadlines for Iraqi Christians to convert or ‘face the sword’
- Pope’s Korean visit highlights plight of North’s Christians
- China’s Nobel nominee lawyer released after three years
- A timeline of ISIS terror
- Attack on nuns said to be first ever in Bangladesh
- CAR President names country’s first ever Muslim Prime Minister
- Boko Haram overruns town, kills 100
- Qaraqosh falls, thousands flee
- Cameroon pastor among 25 killed as Deputy Prime Minister’s wife kidnapped
- CAR archbishop hopeful, cautious about cease-fire
- Two Finnish Christian aid workers killed in Afghanistan
- Kidnapped girls’ parents die as Chibok’s trauma rises
- IS invades monastery, steals ‘everything’ from Iraqi Christians
- Mariam’s permission to leave Sudan still unclear
- Pakistan court grants bail to suspect in murder of government minister
- ISIS orders last Christians out of Mosul
- Indian villages outlaw Christian practices
- Kenyan coast Christians fear for lives as local politicians appear to be linked to Al-Shabaab
- Mariam’s case highlights plight of Sudan’s Christians
- Mosul’s two kidnapped Chaldean nuns released
- Chibok, 3 months later
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- Ramadan adds extra pressure for N. African Christians
- 50 killed in Nigerian church attacks
- Priest pioneers peace process amid CAR’s chaos
- First time in 1600 years no Mass said in Mosul, Iraq, says Chaldean Archbishop
- Sudan’s death row mother freed again
- Egyptian convert appeals 5-year sentence for misdemeanor
- Malaysia refuses Church right to appeal ban on use of ‘Allah’
- Turkish Assassination Plot Suspects on Trial
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- Kenya massacre prompts calls for increased security
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- Mosul Christians tell of ISIS forces’ Iraqi takeover
- Up to 1000 Christian families flee Iraq’s second city
- Russian takeover of Crimea leads to inter-Church tensions
- Pakistani Muslim NGO highlights forced conversion of Christian women
- Boko Haram suspects kill 200 more in Nigeria
- Indian priest kidnapped in Afghanistan
- Church website blocked as ‘porn’ by Turkish parliament
- Renewed fighting in Mali revives Christian anxieties
- Tensions high in CAR after church and mosque attacked
- As Boko Haram violence continues, Christians and Muslims talk peace
- Eritrea turns 21
- Pakistani blasphemy law used against popular TV channel, Jehovah’s Witnesses and more
- Uganda churches warned of Al-Shabaab ‘threats’
- Bombs kill dozens in Nigerian Christian district and Jos
- Nigerian government ‘sympathises’ with Boko Haram
- Documents indicate Turkey connection to bishops’ kidnappers
- Condemned to hang, pregnant Sudanese doctor refuses to recant
- Sudanese pregnant mother sentenced to death for ‘apostasy’
- South Sudan’s fragile peace deal still threatens famine
- Christian party asserts Dalit rights in Indian elections debut
- Chibok victim: Kidnappers threatened to shoot
- Algerian Christians should promote friendship with Muslims, says Pope Envoy
- Boko Haram kidnaps more girls; outrage mounts
- Argentina’s fight to hold onto religious freedom
- Christian and Muslim clerics pledge to tackle insecurity in N. Cameroon
- Autopsy raises questions whether Christian’s death was suicide
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- Nigeria’s kidnapped teens feared to be abroad
- Sanjiang church demolished
- Nigeria churches urge global prayer for 187 missing girls
- How does Boko Haram justify kidnap of 230 Nigerian teenage girls?
- Church standoff a study in China’s complexity
- Easter killings in CAR
- Christianity and genocide?
- Exile
- Algeria’s potential ‘Arab Spring’
- Malatya murder trial postponed again
- Canadian nun and two priests abducted in Cameroon
- Christian couple sentenced to death for ‘blasphemous’ texts
- Homs priest killed by assassins
- Indian elections: what could they mean for minority Christians?
- UN chief calls for immediate international action to halt ‘deplorable atrocities’
- Happy New Year, Iran?
- New US-based Syriac Patriarch says he’ll return to Syria
- 20 Nigerian churches destroyed during violent March
- Pakistani Christian sentenced to death for blasphemy
- 3000 Syrian Christians flee Armenian village as Islamist rebels take control
- Sara got married
- Kaduna villages’ death toll rises to 150, including pastor’s wife and three children
- Mombasa church gun attack kills at least six, injures 21
- Global leaders emphasise continuing CAR chaos is ‘not about religion’
- Nigeria attacks kill more than 150
- Pakistani university refuses prosperous work to Christians
- Bombs heighten fears that Zanzibar autonomy movement targets Christians
- Turkey returns less than half of monastery land it seized
- Nigeria’s churches will not stay silent during violence, leader says
- N. Korea to execute 33 for missionary work
- Use of ‘Allah’ still unresolved for Malaysia’s Christians
- Nigeria ‘at war’ with Boko Haram
- Malatya murder suspects to be set free
- Trouble in the south
- CAR clerics plead for ceasefire
- Dozens dead as violence continues in central Nigeria
- Indonesia’s religious freedom ‘in peril’
- Boko Haram kills dozens of boys in school raid
- No protection for Christian village during deadly attack
- Knife attack kills Christian woman in southern Egypt
- Murdered MP’s brother threatened 3 years after death
- Kenyan bishops protest against pay-to-preach law
- Retired Kazakh pastor given suspended jail sentence
- CAR Church leaders call again for aid
- Nigeria’s deadly winter
- Pastor killed, church torched in Nigeria
- Freedom of religion an issue ‘whose time has come’
- ‘Ugly’ charges against Turkish pastor dropped
- Indonesian churches remain closed
- Evangelism charges dropped against Moroccan convert
- Female church workers raped and killed in South Sudan
- Pastor killed as riots hit Mombasa
- Pastor and son killed as CAR violence continues
- Algerian Christian refused burial in public cemetery
- Egyptian priest claims church attack was Muslim Brotherhood ‘revenge’
- Kazakh pastor’s trial halts amid heated arguments
- Religious leaders plead for UN force in Central African Republic
- Nigerian worshippers killed during mass
- Sri Lanka’s Christians protest after January attacks
- Malaysia’s ‘Allah’ impasse
- ‘Martyred’ Iranian pastor remembered 20 years on
- Tunisian constitution finds no place for Sharia
- Central African Republic conflict ‘political not religious’
- Bomb scare reignites Christian fear in northern Mali
- Old wine, new skin?
- Anti-religion hostility rose worldwide in 2012, study says
- Algerian churches, NGOs wary as ‘restrictive’ law comes into force
- Pressure on Christians grew in 2013
- Christian deaths double in 2014 World Watch List
- Lebanese library torched after blasphemy accusation
- Shot Copt dies on New Year’s Eve after hospital ‘negligence’
- Islamic authorities’ raid on Malaysian Bible Society questioned by state government
- Media ‘wrong’ to ignore Christians’ plight in Central African Republic
- Baghdad Christmas bombings kill 37
- Central African Republic Christians petition for President’s removal
- Christmas excitement marred by insecurity for Pakistani Christians after deadly year of attacks
- Chinese Christians’ lawyers attacked in presence of foreign TV crew
- Prince Charles criticises ‘organised persecution’ of Middle East Christians
- Iraqi Archbishop calls on West to ‘open eyes’ to Christians’ Middle East exodus
- Turkey blacklists foreign evangelist without explanation
- Pakistani Christian on blasphemy charge speaks out from jail
- Egyptian convert arrested for ‘inciting sectarian strife’
- Three pastors among dead in Central African Republic
- A postcard from ‘Little Baghdad’
- Malaysia’s ‘Allah’ ruling widely criticised
- Scores killed in Central African Republic
- Report claims 30,000 Eritreans kidnapped in 5 years
- Rumour of tryst triggers anti-Christian violence in Egypt village
- Pakistan’s churches increase security after Peshawar blasts
- UN endorses more military in Central African Republic
- UK Parliament is told Christianity is ‘most persecuted religion’
- Nigeria’s Boko Haram strikes again in Cameroon
- 12 nuns ‘abducted’ as rebels recapture Maaloula
- Chinese church protests against arrest of 23 members
- Pressure mounts on UN to refer Syria ‘war crimes’ to ICC
- Vigilante group formed in Bangladesh to stop Christian activities
- Dozens killed in fresh attacks in central Nigeria
- Kenyan bishop hurt in clash with local tribe
- Algerian church attacked again
- Rash of blasphemy accusations after Pakistan church bombings
- UN consensus builds to send force to Central African Republic
- Jihadists could end Christianity in Syria if given power, says nun
- ‘White Widow’ key suspect in Kenyan pastors’ murders
- Ban Ki-moon warns Central African Republic ‘spiralling into anarchy’
- Book review: ‘The Global War on Christians’
- French priest ‘kidnapped’ by Nigeria’s Boko Haram in Cameroon
- Turkish pastor arrested on human trafficking accusations
- Christians face extinction in Middle East, warns UK Minister
- All eyes on Sri Lanka as Commonwealth summit begins
- Church welcomes US designation of Boko Haram as Foreign Terrorist Organisation
- Number of Christian martyrs continues to cause debate
- China asks Church for help with social care
- Iran’s nuclear programme ‘distracting’ world from rights abuses
- Radical Islamists ‘control much of northern Syria’
- Iranian Christian jailed for 10 years freed
- Disputed area of Abyei votes to join South Sudan
- Vietnamese Catholics jailed despite protests
- Christian woman dies in Eritrean jail, as prisoner of conscience
- Iranians jailed for ‘house church’ attendance
- Two pastors killed in Kenya
- One third of Syrian Christians have gone, says cleric
- Clerics call on UN military force to secure Central African Republic
- Northern Iraq no longer safe for Christians
- Bajrang Dal pressure villagers to leave Christianity
- Indian Christians sentenced to life terms will appeal
- Iran ‘abuses’ Christians’ national and international rights
- Tension high as Mombasa Muslims protest cleric’s murder
- African migrants risk lives to flee war and persecution
- Leaving home
- Promised legal reforms disappoint Turkey’s religious minorities
- ‘Surprise’ release of Moroccan jailed for 30 months for evangelism
- Catholic clerics mugged at gunpoint in Central African Republic
- Bangladeshi Christians told to close church, convert to Islam
- Missing Italian priest ‘still alive’
- After the bombs
- A renewed debate over blasphemy laws
- Anger turns into a riot
- A tragic homecoming
- Boko Haram killing spree claims 110 Nigerians
- Christianity in danger of becoming extinct in its birthplace
- Viewpoint: A country in confusion
- Turkish military linked to Christian murders
- Sudanese bishop pleads for end to suffering
- Pakistan’s Christian leaders demand security after bombings
- Jail term for Kazakh pastor extended
- Colombian Christian leader accused of FARC affiliation
- After the storm
- Iran releases 2 Christians, but many more still imprisoned
- Interfaith conflict threatens to engulf Central African Republic
- Catholic priest victim of latest Zanzibar acid attack
- Egyptian army breaks Islamist grip on Delga
- Vietnamese police crush protests against Catholics’ imprisonment
- Christians flee Pakistani village after pastor accused of blasphemy
- Christian woman raped and murdered in Madhya Pradesh
- Pastor taken hostage in Philippines rebel attack
- Moroccan Christian jailed for evangelising
- Maldives elections unlikely to improve religious freedom
- Renewed day by day
- Dozens of ‘noisy’ churches silenced in Cameroon
- 40 Pakistani Christian families face hunger after Gojra elopement dispute
- North Korea rescinds invitation to U.S. envoy
- Viewpoint: A troubling call from Syria
- Court case hangs over Indonesian pastor
- Italian priest still unaccounted for in Syria
- Rimsha accused goes free
- What caused Syria’s civil war?
- Churches across Egypt attacked
- In Egypt, Christian anxieties mount as Islamist hostility increases
- Pakistani Christians ensure police arrest key murder suspect
- Top pastor’s arrest adds to Christians’ concerns in Central African Republic
- Boko Haram under investigation for crimes against humanity
- Algerians stage picnics in protest against ‘forced’ fasting
- Beyond count
- Chinese house church leader Samuel Lamb dies
- Madhya Pradesh awaits decision on stricter ‘anti-conversion law’
- Sectarian violence spirals in Guinea’s volatile southeast
- Bombs in Nigerian Christian district kill at least 12
- In India, a familiar pattern of pressure on Christians
- After 12 years, Turkey closes the door on American church volunteer
- Christian jailed for text messages in Gojra, Pakistan
- Iranian Christians continue to face arrest, imprisonment
- Pakistani Christians angered by ‘sweeper’ comment
- Former Nigerian Governor allows ‘under-age’ marriage loophole into Constitution
- World abandons C. African Republic in hour of need, MSF says
- Pro-Morsi backlash turns deadly for some Christian communities
- Mali’s state of emergency lifted ahead of election
- Archbishop of Canterbury and UK Foreign Office Minister alerted to need of Syrian Christians
- All change again in the Middle East
- Wave of kidnappings plagues Egyptians
- The Brotherhood is down, but is it out?
- Voices from the revolution
- Rimsha, family, living in Canada
- Hindu nationalists harass villages for weeks, injure 4
- Pakistan court throws out blasphemy charge against pastor
- Algeria’s Protestants want their churches back
- Syrian Christians caught in crossfire
- Is conflict in Nigeria really about persecution of Christians by radical Muslims?
- C. African Republic religious leaders consider plan for country otherwise ‘likely to explode’
- Iraqi MP: Syria collapse would endanger all Mideast Christians
- Iran convicts six Christian converts
- Upsurge in attacks signals growing Islamist threat in Niger
- Iranians vote for Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s successor
- Gender-based violence ‘wielded mercilessly’ in Muslim countries
- President Morsi for first time approves construction of new church in Egypt
- The rise of Islamic extremism in Central Asia and the Caucasus
- Christians watchful as Sharif returns to power
- ‘Persecuted: The Global Assault on Christians’
- Tehran church faces closure after pastor’s arrest
- In Eritrea, ‘persecution greater than ever and getting worse’
- Unemployed and Christian in Egypt
- Sabra now says he doesn’t know bishops’ whereabouts
- Egypt is at a crossroads, says Coptic Bishop
- OIC letter from C. African Republic President sought support for Islamic republic
- Bangladesh — Islamist protest leaders arrested in wake of Dhaka siege
- Iranian Christians face ‘systematic persecution and prosecution’
- Boko Haram ‘on verge of seizing control of Borno State’ after pastor’s death
- VHP leads mob to destroy Indian church
- Nigeria – Taraba State violence over funeral procession leaves at least 39 dead
- Indonesian clerics dispute president’s ‘world statesman’ award
- Tanzania – bomb outside new Catholic church one of worst ‘terrorist’ incidents in years
- The Camp
- Churches campaign ahead of Malaysia elections
- Zahle dispatch: Life among Syria’s Christian refugees
- Kidnapped archbishop urges Christians to stay in Syria
- My cousins in Qamishly
- Goodluck Jonathan’s amnesty gamble
- Brazilians’ ordeal in Senegal prison over, but legal challenges remain
- Church shelled, seven Christians killed in Central African Republic
- Sudan President’s amnesty releases Christian woman
- Bangladesh PM rejects Muslim demand for blasphemy law
- Egypt’s Christians, fearing instability, seek security elsewhere
- Pakistan court overturns blasphemy conviction, death sentence
- Anxiety high as rebels take over Central African Republic
- Church walls go up, then torn down by local government
- Kano bus bomb prompts religious leaders to joint call for urgent measures
- Libyan human-rights official flees country after death threats
- India: Persecution Briefs
- Kenyan religious groups ready to work with President-elect, despite his war crime indictment
- Warning against euphoria over reforms, as military targets minorities
- Pakistan condemns attacks on Lahore Christians
- Widest church grouping raises funds for Boko Haram’s almost 800 victims during 2012
- Two steps back?
- Burned church is latest in string of Tanzanian attacks
- Pakistani judge throws out blasphemy charge
- No prison, but a bigger fine, for Algerian Christian
- For a church leader in Mali, relief and anxiety
- 2 attacks prompt Christians to stop meeting at Indian church
- Wife worries she won’t hear husband’s voice for 8 years
- 90 days to freedom
- Threat to burn Bibles in wake of Sultan’s ban on word ‘Allah’
- US demands release of American pastor from Iranian prison
- Police break up plot to assassinate Turkish pastor
- Pakistan Supreme Court confirms decision to drop blasphemy case
- Hope in Mali rises with international military intervention
- Colombia: Murdered evangelist’s widow also killed after threats
- Africa rises on World Watch List of worst persecutors
- Nigeria – 30 Christians killed in eve of New Year massacres
- China’s Christians seize internet opportunities
- Gunmen kill 12 Nigerian Christmas-Eve worshipers
- Book review: ‘Christianophobia: A Faith Under Attack’
- Finally, Istanbul gives Syriac Christians a place to build: a cemetery
- Likely to lose constitution vote, Egyptian Christians gird for long struggle
- China removes Shanghai Catholic bishop from state-run church post
- Prosecutor yanked from Turkish Christian murder trials
- 10 killed, four churches burned in Nigeria
- Uzbek pastor released from Kazakhstan prison
- Algerian faces 5 years in prison for sharing Christian faith
- Syrian Christians targeted for their politics or their faith?
- Nigeria – twin suicide attacks on Kaduna church, after future Archbishop of Canterbury visits
- Pakistan court clears Rimsha; location remains secret as risk remains
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- Egypt’s Copts can’t rely on new pope to secure their rights
- Uzbekistan increases charges against church leader in Kazakhstan jail
- Indonesia – Supreme Court ‘pro’ ruling ignored by City authority, so church resists
- Nigerian Christians on frontline vow to stay despite 40 ‘barbaric’ student deaths
- Nairobi church stands strong after grenade kills boy, injures others
- Rimsha and family will stay in Pakistan, lawyer says
- ‘I will never forget that day’
- India briefs: Recent incidents of persecution
- From Africa to Asia, offended Muslims vent anger on Christian churches
- Analysis: India’s narrow path to religious freedom
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- Perpetrators of Turkey’s ‘Malatya Massacre’ Put on Trial
- Kazakhstan jails pastor, considers extradition to Uzbekistan
- Pope Benedict urges peace as radical Islamists target Western interests
- Jailed Iranian pastor, once facing death, walks free
- Nigerian church tries to move on after massacre
- Rimsha leaves Pakistan jail, reunited with family, government says
- Case against Rimsha’s dramatic turn prompts Pakistan religious leaders to debate blasphemy law
- Christians bury a brother, then exhume his body after Hindus protest
- Talk of violence against Rimsha worries her lawyer
- Teen accused of blasphemy will leave jail, but can’t go home, lawyer says
- Young Pakistani girl arrested for ‘blasphemy’
- Gunmen attack Nigerian worship service, kill 19
- Christians tormented with music, then attacked
- Violence topples Nigeria’s ‘bridge’
- Indian Christians forced into Hindu worship, driven from homes
- Church of Christ in Nigeria reeling from massacre
- Nigerian attackers kill dozens of Christians
- India briefs: recent incidents of persecution
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- Vietnamese officials destroy two new church buildings
- Christian legislator in Pakistan stuck with Muslim ID
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- Appeals Judge in Azerbaijan to Decide Fate of Church
- Islamists bomb three churches in Kaduna, Nigeria
- Christians hail dissolution of Egyptian parliament
- Gutted church building leaves Egyptian Copts with debt
- Police in Pakistan decline to prosecute rape suspects
- Lao police arrest pastor for proselytism
- Suicide bombing hits another church in Jos, Nigeria
- Iranian authorities shut church in Tehran
- Injuries severe after Bauchi, Nigeria suicide bomb attack
- Christians in Pakistan allege seizure of graveyard
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- Blast wreaks bloodshed on two churches in Bauchi, Nigeria
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- Life sentences for ‘blasphemy’ in Pakistan overturned
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- Harsh era looms in Aceh, Indonesia
- Injured convert in Pakistan tries to rebuild life
- Sudanese authorities close Christian offices in South Darfur
- Iranian officials heighten control on Farsi-speaking church
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- Lawyer of Iranian pastor on death row faces prison
- Myanmar reforms offer no respite for ethnic Christians
- India briefs: recent incidents of persecution
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- Hindu villagers attack mourners in India
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- Authorities plan to eradicate house churches
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- South Sudanese Christians trapped in hostile North
- Attacked Turkish pastor joins in memorials for slain Christians
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- Islamic extremists beat, mock Christians
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- Suicide bomber targets churches in Kaduna, Nigeria
- Turkey’s religious freedom record slides
- Lao officials confiscate church buildings
- Court in Egypt sentences young Christian for ‘insulting Islam’
- Southern Sudanese Christians fear forced repatriation
- Explosion at Christian meeting in Kenya kills boy, woman
- Drive to release rights lawyer in China pushes forward
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- Crackdown hits official churches
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- Pakistani woman charged with ‘blasphemy’ for refusing Islam
- Another church in Jos, Nigeria hit by suicide bombing
- Two Christian hospital workers abducted in Karachi, Pakistan
- Egyptian court sentences priest from attacked church building
- Islamists in Egypt use rumours to attack Christians
- Christian woman in Pakistan freed after ‘blasphemy’ accusation
- India briefs: recent incidents of persecution
- Doctors try to save remaining eye of Ugandan pastor
- Indictment of ‘masterminds’ of murders in Turkey expected
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- Suicide bombers attack worship service in Jos, Nigeria
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- Churches forced to stop Farsi worship in Tehran, Iran
- Accused pastor in Kashmir, India given reprieve
- Priests released amid wave of abductions in Sudan
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- Authorities raid house church in Shiraz
- Islamic extremists behead another convert
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- Seven Christians killed in Bauchi, Nigeria
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- Sudan threatens to arrest church leaders
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- Christians face harsh realities of Nigerian church bombing
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- Lao officials: give up your Christian faith or face eviction
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- Amnesty accuses Nigerian army of raping women and girls who fled Boko Haram
- Amnesty tells North Korea to end Christian persecution
- Amnesty wants Sudanese pastors freed
- Amnesty: Egypt failed to protect Copts
- Amnesty: UN must protect Central African civilians
- Anger as Hindu religious leaders given ministerial status
- Anglicans raise ‘religious freedom’ with Muslims
- Angola: 2,000 unregistered churches forced to close
- Animation highlights N. Korea religious violations
- Anniversary China’s chance to change
- Anniversary of Eritrea crackdown
- Another ‘harsh’ jail sentence for a Vietnamese Christian
- Another Algerian church closed
- Another ancient Assyrian monastery bulldozed
- Another Bangladeshi Christian leader murdered
- Another boatful of migrants capsizes
- Another Chibok girl rescued, 112 still missing
- Another Christian killed in Bangladesh
- Another Copt beheaded in Libya
- Another Copt killed ‘by Islamic State’ in Sinai
- Another Delhi church vandalized
- Another Indian state set to pass anti-conversion bill
- Another mass kidnapping and killing in Nigeria
- Another Mexican Protestant suffers
- Another thumbs-down for SBY ‘statesman’ award
- Another view of Egypt’s violence
- Anti-Christian slogans in Jerusalem alarm Church
- Anti-conversion laws threaten another Indian state
- Archbishop fears persistence of IS ideology despite military defeat
- Archbishop kidnapped in Nigeria
- Archbishop of Aleppo lists damages
- Archbishop’s life ‘under threat’
- Are Chinese Christians persecuted?
- Argentinian priest transferred due to drug traffickers’ threats
- Arrest of Philippines bishop condemned as ‘illegal’
- Arrests made in Bhatti murder
- As China goes global, its Christian missionaries go too
- ASEAN nations told to ‘end blasphemy laws that inspire violence’
- Asia Bibi lawyers make one last plea
- Asia Bibi made honorary Paris citizen
- Asia Bibi nominated for award as human rights defender
- Asia Bibi put in solitary cell
- Asia Bibi’s family and Boko Haram survivor visit Pope
- Assault at Egypt priest’s home kills 1, injures 3
- Assyrian Christian girl released in Syria
- Assyrians on patrol
- Assyrians seek world support vs. Turkish bombings
- Assyrians urge US to hold fire
- At least 15 dead in fresh attack in Benue
- At least 15 killed as Fulani herdsmen strike again in central Nigeria
- At least six killed in bus attack in NE Kenya
- Attack badly damages church in northeast Syria
- Attackers ‘search for Christians’ in Burkina Faso
- Attackers torch Tanzanian university
- Attacks on Christians in Bangladesh escalate
- Australian Minister ‘confused’ over Islamic dogma
- Award for man who brokered release of Chibok girls
- Azerbaijan court turns down Baptist pastor’s appeal
- Azerbaijan: Baptist leader pays fine but continues challenge to religious freedom
- Azerbaijan: Baptist pastor challenges state over constitutional right to worship
- Azerbaijani Baptists win appeal
- Badami Bagh case adjourned
- Bae ‘in better health’
- Bae ‘planned regime’s collapse’
- Bahrain: New cathedral to be Catholic headquarters for northern Persian Gulf
- Bangladesh a ‘dangerous place for minorities’
- Bangladesh aid worker’s death claimed by ‘IS’
- Bangladesh arrests pastor’s suspected attackers
- Bangladesh bomb attacks on Christian home
- Bangladesh Catholics protest over church attack
- Bangladesh church stabbing ‘not’ Islamic extremism
- Bangladesh Muslim clerics: terrorism ‘un-Islamic’
- Bangladesh orders removal of ‘jihad’ from madrassa textbooks
- Bangladesh PM says anyone who offends Islam will be prosecuted
- Bangladesh set to further ‘thwart’ freedom of expression
- Bangladesh: 12 militants charged with Catholic’s murder
- Bangladesh: Catholic priest found, then detained for being ‘mentally unstable’
- Bangladesh: Christians ‘appreciated’ but attacks continue
- Bangladesh: Militant group ‘targets’ Christian converts
- Bangladesh’s religious minorities warned they may face ‘brunt’ of election violence
- Bangladeshi pastor escapes murder attempt
- Bangladeshi sentenced to life for raping elderly Indian nun
- Bashir trip to Nigeria sparks protest
- BBC’s Syrian refugee game criticised
- Beaten Chinese pastor suspects regime
- Beheaded Kenyans belonged to local church
- Belarus archbishop: ‘Give Catholic Church its rights’
- Belarus renews pressure on Baptists after 10 years without conflict
- Belgium rescues Aleppo Christians from Syria
- Bible translators use print-on-demand to ‘work discreetly in areas of intense persecution’
- Billionaire proposes ‘refugee island’
- Bishop refutes alleged ‘revenge’ beheading
- Bishop’s death divides Catholic Church
- Bishops arrested at Dalit protest
- BJP responsible for most hate speech in India, study finds
- BJP told: ‘Creating unrest won’t pay’
- Blasphemers should be put to death, says one Pakistan party as elections near
- Blasphemy laws violate human rights in 1/3 nations – USCIRF
- Blasphemy rumour leads to arson, 8 dead
- Body of kidnapped Assyrian discovered
- Boko Haram – why it’s hard to know the truth
- Boko Haram abducts 20 more Nigerian women
- Boko Haram blamed for prison break
- Boko Haram captives ‘lack skills’ to challenge orders
- Boko Haram defector calls others to repent and leave
- Boko Haram hits back in Maiduguri
- Boko Haram in Cameroon: 8 children killed by boy suicide bomber, 6 others kidnapped
- Boko Haram killed Christian woman’s son to ‘teach her a lesson’ for not converting to Islam
- Boko Haram kills up to 2,000 & burns churches
- Boko Haram leader allowed to walk free – BBC
- Boko Haram may disenfranchise 1.5m Nigerian voters
- Boko Haram seize Chibok
- Boko Haram still active in northeast Nigeria
- Boko Haram still holds territory
- Boko Haram suspected in deadly attacks
- Boko Haram talks reopen, failed bomb-plot relief
- Boko Haram targets Christian girls
- Boko Haram will leave legacy of ‘hatred’
- Boko Haram: 381 killed in Nigeria and Cameroon since April
- Boko Haram’s boy soldiers: a ‘stolen and forgotten generation’
- Boko Haram’s survivors now facing HIV/AIDS
- Bomb found outside Cairo church
- Bomb kills 4 in Syrian Christian district
- Bomb kills scores of Easter revellers in Pakistan
- Bomb near Egyptian church defused amidst growing insecurity
- Bomb sullies Pakistan founder’s legacy
- Bomb-damaged Syrian church holds first service in 6 years
- Book about beheaded Copts offers ‘different view of martyrdom’
- Bounty for Boko Haram
- Brownback: Now is a ‘critical moment’ for religious minorities
- Brunei takes another step towards full implementation of Sharia
- Buddhist monks seek to monitor Myanmar’s converts
- Bulldozers unearth church ruins, keep digging
- Burkina Faso: Australian Christian woman freed
- Burkina Faso: citizenship for kidnapped Australian
- Burkina Faso: concerns over reported rise in extremism
- Burmese Christians detained, ordered not to pray in churches
- Businessman building Pakistan’s largest cross
- C. African Republic: pastor among scores killed
- Calais ‘Jungle’ to be demolished
- Call for Eritrea’s ‘black Tuesday’ to be day of prayer
- Call for UN to establish International Day for victims of religious persecution
- Calling out Hungary
- Calls for Christian asylum centres in Sweden
- Cambodia orders Montagnards to leave
- Cambodia to repatriate 13 Montagnards after failed asylum bids
- Cameroon must deal with religious radicalism
- Cameroonians killed in Boko Haram attacks
- Can Garissa ever recover after mass killing?
- Can you be a Chinese Christian, and a member of the Communist Party?
- Canada confirms pastor detained in North Korea
- Canada’s religious freedom conundrum
- Canadian pastor ‘not heard from’ in North Korea
- CAR ‘could be next failed state’
- CAR crisis ‘far from over’
- CAR President Djotodia resigns
- CAR rebels killed; church attacked
- CAR Seleka rebels reorganise for ‘greater control’
- CAR: 7 dead after attack on peace concert in Bangui
- CAR: Children hurt as another displaced persons camp attacked
- CAR: Djotodia to speak to militias
- CAR’s religious leaders ‘must be empowered’ to restore peace
- Catholic hostages ‘freed in Cameroon’
- Catholic priest released in Syria
- Catholic teachers warn against India’s attempts to ‘saffronise’ education
- Causes of Chibok kidnapping to be investigated
- Cautious welcome to Russia’s praise of Protestantism
- Ceasefire extended in Nuba, Blue Nile, Darfur
- Cemeteries closed to Nepali Christians
- Central African Republic foes sign Church-mediated peace accord
- Central African Republic: ‘early warning signs of genocide’ warns UN aid chief
- Chad is withdrawing its troops from CAR
- Charges relaxed for murderer of Asia Bibi defender
- Charity clears mines from Jordan River path
- Chechnya: Seven killed in Orthodox church attack
- Chibok escapee ‘not one of 276’, exactly a year after first girl found. 113 still missing
- Chibok girl freed 7mths ago not yet allowed home
- Chibok girl: ‘Don’t forget us’
- Chibok girls ‘forced to kill’ for Boko Haram
- Chibok girls documentary airing tonight in the US
- Chibok girls last seen in northern Cameroon
- Chibok girls not among 900 rescued
- Chibok girls shown ‘alive’
- Chibok girls’ life with Boko Haram
- Chief Minister of India’s most populous state bans ‘illegal’ abattoirs
- Children arrested during raid on Chinese church
- China ‘uses legal tactics to suppress religious freedom’, says rights agency
- China accused of ’emasculating’ Christianity
- China accuses Canadian Christian of spying
- China church raided during opening ceremony
- China crackdown on charities along its North Korea border
- China crackdown on house churches?
- China expels hundreds of South Koreans from North Korean border region
- China expels South Korean missionaries
- China has transformed Xinjiang into a ‘mass detention camp’ – UN
- China introduces three-person teams to monitor religious groups
- China is world’s largest producer of Bibles
- China jails church leader for ‘subversion’
- China pastor arrest ‘politically motivated’
- China to shut churches during G20
- China-Vatican deal an ‘incredible betrayal’, says cardinal
- China: 279 church leaders sign petition urging government to stop its ‘violent actions’
- China: 6 churches closed, crosses removed from 3 others
- China: Beijing churches call for government to respect religious rights
- China: Beijing house churches investigated and ordered to close
- China: children stopped from entering church as pressure on Henan Christians increases
- China: Christian students under pressure to give up their faith
- China: Christian summer camps closed down, priests dismissed
- China: Christmas banned by university’s communists
- China: Cultivate ‘patriotic’ clergy, Henan officials told
- China: Henan churches told to sing national anthem at services
- China: More church closures and Internet censorship in further religious clampdown
- China: More church closures as Party tightens rules for its religious members
- China: New book explains ‘explosive’ growth of Christianity
- China: Pastor and 200 church members detained for commemorating earthquake
- China: Protestant pastor found guilty of ‘intentionally divulging state secrets’
- China: state-sanctioned Church says new regulations will ‘strengthen Christianity’
- China: TV ‘confession’ of Christian lawyer
- China: woman buried alive in church demolition
- China: Zhejiang pastor jailed for 14 years
- China’s ‘demolition campaign’ goes on
- China’s Christians still ‘persecuted’
- China’s church ‘demolition campaign’ ends
- China’s oldest priest dies at 105
- China’s anti-church drive jails pastor for 10 yrs
- China’s Catholics told to create five-year plan to Sinicise Church
- China’s church crackdown jails pastor for 12 years
- China’s Communist Party increases control over religious affairs
- China’s head of religious affairs warns of ‘domination’ by ‘foreign forces’
- China’s Internet guidelines a ‘serious violation of people’s freedoms’
- China’s worship places face obligation to fly national flag
- Chinese ‘underground’ bishop detained by police for fifth time in two years
- Chinese bishop who disappeared in April resurfaces in Beijing hospital
- Chinese Christians told to believe in President Xi, not Jesus
- Chinese church closures, demolitions continue
- Chinese church growth attacked by Communist Party
- Chinese church leaders released, as parents ignore religious-teaching ban
- Chinese Communist Party using CCTV to ‘maintain social order’ at churches
- Chinese lawyer in state of ‘terror and confusion’
- Chinese pastor Joseph Gu arrested again
- Chinese pastor released after two and a half years in prison
- Chinese priest jailed for stealing was framed, say supporters
- Chinese priest missing after ‘brief chat’ with authorities
- Christian Association of Nigeria asks President about Fulani violence
- Christian children in Iran told: ‘study Islam or leave school’
- Christian detained in North Korea
- Christian farmers refusing to leave Bethlehem
- Christian forgiveness of IS goes viral
- Christian hostages reveal Syrian ransom saga
- Christian killed in Basra for ‘selling alcohol’
- Christian missionaries a ‘threat’ to India’s unity, says MP
- Christian murders continue in Bangladesh
- Christian refugees in Europe still suffering
- Christian removed from role after Muslim protests
- Christian teenager ‘at risk of state persecution’ if deported to Vietnam
- Christian village ‘overrun’ in Syria
- Christian wears hijab for Lent
- Christian woman freed from Islamic State after 3 years in captivity
- Christianity keeps growing in China
- Christianity not welcome in Sudan, warns jailed pastor’s lawyer
- Christians ‘held’ in Syrian town
- Christians in Africa face ‘explosion’ in violence, senior church leader says
- Christians in Gaza fear the arrival of Islamic State
- Christians in Yemen ‘persevering, not surviving’
- Christians jailed alongside Eritrean constitution
- Christians most persecuted religion globally
- Christmas celebrated despite fears of Boko Haram
- Christmas in an underground church
- Christmas repurposed in India
- Christmas service a ‘worry’ in Islamist nations
- Church and clerics attacked in CAR
- Church and mosque demolished in refugee camp
- Church body calls for equal education in N Nigeria
- Church bombed, ‘Allah’ row escalates
- Church council calls for release of Syrian bishops abducted five years ago
- Church demolition appeal due in Khartoum
- Church names 21 Christians IS killed in Qaryatain
- Church split as Colombians reject FARC deal
- Church wants political Syria solution
- Church where pastor’s wife killed wins land rights
- Churches bombed as Nepal stays secular
- Churches destroyed, priests questioned in Myanmar’s Shan state
- Churches hit in Damascus suburb
- Churches plan peace-building on Korean Peninsula
- Churches’ prayers show Syria’s “blood ecumenism”
- Claim: Mistrust slows defeat of Boko Haram
- Clerics tell Muslims to protect minorities
- Colombian pastor murdered as killings continue despite peace deal
- Colombian priest dies after mugging
- Commonwealth worst offenders urged to face up to poor levels of religious freedom
- Congolese military ‘culpable’ in ADF’s North Kivu massacres
- Continued crisis for Sudanese death-row mother
- Contrasting freedoms for Vietnam’s Christians
- Copt arrested for distributing Bibles
- Copt teens flee Egypt after blasphemy convictions
- Copt’s forgiveness of husband’s killer stuns broadcaster
- Coptic bishop found dead, his head ‘smashed’
- Coptic monk kidnapped from Sudan farm
- Coptic monk kidnapped in Darfur released
- Coptic monks injured in clash with Israeli police
- Coptic Pope backs protests
- Coptic priest killed in Cairo
- Coptic wedding party attacked in Cairo
- Coptic woman elected for first time
- Copts aid Egyptians’ evacuation from Libya
- Copts flee El-Arish after sixth murder in month
- Copts found dead in Libya
- Copts still homeless months after homes burnt down
- Copts suffer pro-Morsi backlash
- Corruption threatening Nigeria, not religion
- Court hearing for Moroccan delayed
- Court upholds Vietnamese Christian blogger’s 5-year jail sentence
- Crisis deepens as Cairo camps cleared
- Croatian government urged not to expel Iranian Christians
- Cross removal ‘escalates’ in eastern China
- Cuba continues to restrict freedom of education
- Cuba drops criminal charges against religious freedom activist
- Cuba: pastor returns to work after arrest for home-schooling
- Cuba: Religious-freedom advocate freed after two days’ detention
- Cuba’s religious freedom violations ‘remain high’
- Cuba’s religious freedom violations on the rise
- Czech aid worker recounts torture by IS convicts in Sudan prison
- Date set for judge to question S Sudan pastors
- Deadly conflict tearing Nigeria apart (and it’s not Boko Haram)
- Death penalty fear for Libyans
- Death sentence for Asia Bibi confirmed
- Death sentence for killers of Afghan woman
- Death threats for educational church visit
- Defector: ‘I’ll do all possible to end North Korea slavery’
- Demolition plans for 21 Sudan church buildings
- Demonstration remembers kidnapped Aleppo Bishops
- Despite human rights abuse, Sudan wants US talks
- Doctor has to leave Pakistan for treating Christian
- Don’t speak, act, Rouhani told
- DR Congo: 7 killed by suspected Islamist militants
- DR Congo: Priest shot dead amid militia chaos
- DR Congo: Ten killed, nuns kidnapped as presumed Islamist militants strike again in east
- DRC – more reports allege ‘caliphate’ in N. Kivu
- DRC clergy call for ‘unconditional’ release of kidnapped priests
- DRC: calls for inquiry into massacres in Beni
- DRC: Catholic priest briefly detained amidst political unrest
- DRC: church deacon released after demonstration
- DRC: Two people killed every day in North Kivu
- Dubai: free to worship, but not convert
- Egypt allocates land for new Cairo churches
- Egypt appoints its first-ever female Coptic governor
- Egypt army rebuilds church destroyed by Islamists
- Egypt Cabinet committee starts work on legalisation of unlicensed churches
- Egypt church bombings: Court considers death sentences for 36
- Egypt church celebrates long-awaited official opening
- Egypt church goes ahead despite opposition
- Egypt increases security for Christmas
- Egypt legalises 156 churches with many more still waiting
- Egypt Minister: Churches have right to protection ‘Islam guarantees’
- Egypt parliament urged to ease church-building
- Egypt rejects US claim of Copts’ persecution as ‘lies’
- Egypt returns confiscated SAT-7 equipment
- Egypt sentences ‘anti-Islam’ teens to 5 years
- Egypt suspends charges against ‘proselytisers’
- Egypt votes for religious freedom
- Egypt: ‘Copts barred from church by police’
- Egypt: 4 Coptic churches closed after Muslim protests
- Egypt: 7 dead as Coptic pilgrims targeted in another bus attack in Minya
- Egypt: another Coptic church closed after flyer causes riot
- Egypt: bombed church restored in less than a month
- Egypt: bus attack victim’s son donates compensation money to build mosque and church
- Egypt: Copt killer’s death sentence confirmed
- Egypt: Coptic church reopens 8 months after Palm Sunday bombing
- Egypt: Coptic priest’s murderer sentenced to death
- Egypt: Coptic woman stabbed after leaving Alexandria church
- Egypt: Copts appeal to PM after 24-year delay in return of school
- Egypt: Copts request new church to honour 28 killed in bus attack
- Egypt: Copts stage sit-in to protest at church closure
- Egypt: Copts’ homes attacked despite advance notice to police of threats
- Egypt: Court will try 3 men for assault on elderly Coptic woman
- Egypt: death penalty for terrorists linked to beheading of 20 Copts
- Egypt: Eleven men sent for trial for attacking Copts
- Egypt: Fighting discrimination will need ‘a lot more than taking religion off ID cards’
- Egypt: Man accused of IS allegiance sentenced to death for killing Coptic doctor
- Egypt: Monks want new church in memory of Copts killed in Minya bus attack
- Egypt: President promises to rebuild churches
- Egypt: Sinai monastery attacker wore suicide belt
- Egypt: Suicide attack on Coptic church foiled
- Egypt: Three arrested for plotting Easter attacks
- Egypt’s Christians face ‘insurmountable barrier’ in pursuit of football career
- Egypt’s Copts face discrimination in football, too
- Egypt’s damaged churches begin to re-open
- Egypt’s draft constitution explained
- Egypt’s Hegazy sentenced to one year in prison
- Egypt’s President visits church
- Egypt’s Sisi: Brotherhood is finished
- Egypt’s Christians ‘at breaking point’ says bishop
- Egypt’s Copts nominated for Nobel Peace Prize
- Egypt’s sexual harassment ‘epidemic’
- Egyptian ‘defamation’ verdict due
- Egyptian bishop advocates for convert rights
- Egyptian bishop eludes gunmen
- Egyptian blasphemy case ‘bodes ill’
- Egyptian church burned
- Egyptian pastor ‘fine and safe’
- Eight Baghdad churches close down as Christians still flee Iraq
- Eighty executed in North Korea
- Erdogan: ‘Only Sunni Muslims should live in Mosul’
- Eritrea begins European offensive in Germany
- Eritrea government closes Church-run initiatives
- Eritrea patriarch’s public appearances ‘a marketing exercise’
- Eritrea releases at least 35 Christians from prison
- Eritrea: imprisoned Christian mother dies, as arrests continue
- Eritrea: Orthodox Patriarch Antonios expelled for ‘heresy’
- Eritrean bishops describe life there “desolate”
- Eritrean Christian women detained in ‘notoriously harsh prison’
- Eritrean pastor released after 11 years in prison
- Eritrean priest nominated for Nobel Peace Prize
- Eritreans still suffering despite peace deal with Ethiopia, says priest
- Escapee’s ‘living hell’ in North Korean prisons
- Escaping North Korea
- Ethiopian wife killed for Christian conversion
- Ethiopians executed in Libya identified
- Ethnic affairs ministry ‘vital’ to Myanmar
- EU alliance with ‘unsavoury’ African leaders
- EU appoints first int’l religious freedom envoy
- EU Parliament pleads for Christian safety
- EU told to strengthen mandate of religious freedom envoy
- EU urged to make religious freedom envoy permanent
- Euro Court to France: Don’t deport Copt
- Euro MPs visit Asia Bibi’s family and press Pakistan for blasphemy law reform
- Europe shows ‘almost sinister’ indifference to persecuted Christianity – bishop
- European Court questions Russia over deportations under religion law
- European Parliament condemns ‘in strongest terms’ Eritrea’s human rights record
- Evangelicals targeted in Cameroon bomb attacks?
- Existence of Eastern Churches ‘at risk’
- Extremism inside Indonesia’s largest Islamic group
- Extremist Islamists torch shops in Egypt
- Facebook safe button turned on after Nigeria bomb
- Faked ‘news’ targets Turkey’s Patriarch
- Family of murdered Pakistani Christian MP open training centre for women
- Farsi speakers banned from church
- Fate of kidnapped Philippines priest – 57 today – ‘uncertain’
- Fears of ‘another Chibok’ after Boko Haram school attack
- Fears of a security breakdown as Mali’s Catholic churches attacked
- Fears of political agenda behind abuse allegation against Indian priest
- Feast of Tabernacles spotlights Christian ‘plight’
- Female bomber ‘signature’ weapon of Boko Haram
- Fewer Christians left to flee
- Filipino priest Teresito Suganob free after 4 months as hostage
- Film about Sultan and St. Francis shown in Egypt
- Film showing Muslims protecting Christians nominated for Oscar
- Film shows desperate plight of drowning refugees
- First Christian ever to run for Syrian presidency
- First Christian school to open in Iraq since 1970s
- First-ever peacebuilding platform for Arab Christian and Muslim leaders
- Five years on, hope remains for missing Syrian bishops
- Fixing Pakistan’s ‘broken’ blasphemy laws
- Foreign Christian students targeted by Russia’s security services
- Foreign jihadists are fighting in DRC
- Foreigners in North Korea – what to expect if arrested
- Four Copts, including child, abducted for ransom
- Four years on still no news of kidnapped Syrian bishops
- Four-year sentence for Indonesian pastor who evangelised a taxi driver
- Freed Chibok girls finally head to university and home
- Freed from prison after 4 years, Christian woman ‘banned from leaving Iran’
- Freed pastors finally back in S. Sudan
- Freed priest returns to France
- Freed S. Sudan pastors held at Khartoum airport
- Freedom House’s China report ‘misses big picture’
- Freedom of thought ‘regressing on a global scale’
- French church attack survivor describes ordeal
- Fresh criticism for Egypt church construction law
- Frontier town sees first Communion despite IS
- Fulani attack kills 10 in Christian area
- Fulani herdsmen strike again in Kaduna, Nigeria
- G20 ‘missed opportunity’ to tackle major global issue: religious freedom
- Gambia no longer an Islamic Republic
- Garissa mastermind ‘killed’ in raid
- Garissa warnings ‘ignored’
- Gender equality suffers under faith restrictions
- Georgia set to pass Constitutional amendments that ‘violate’ religious freedom
- German ambassador makes rare criticism of China over religious freedom
- German pastor tells of terrible suffering Nigerian Christians experience at hands of Boko Haram
- Germany recognises Turkish ‘genocide’ of Armenians
- Germany: 97 anti-Christian attacks last year, most against refugees
- Ghana churches banned from using stadium
- Girl speaks about forced conversion to Islam
- Girl with bomb says she is Chibok victim
- Girl with explosives not a Chibok victim
- Girl, 14, sent on suicide mission for refusing to marry Boko Haram fighters
- Give all religions a voice, Pope urges Sri Lanka
- Government silence on IS’s genocide ’empowers oppressors’
- Governor Taseer’s son accused of hate speech
- Grenade attack on Central African Republic church
- Grenades found in cathedral
- Growing list of Christians charged under Russia’s ‘anti-missionary law’
- Growing signs of ISIS activity in Jerusalem
- Gunman shoots Pakistan minister over blasphemy law
- Hard labour for US citizen
- Hate speech fuels violence vs. Turkish non-Muslims
- Having human rights in Kazakhstan depends on state permission – report
- Head of Nigerian Islamist group Ansaru arrested
- Heavy rain in northern Iraq floods refugee camps
- Herald boss investigated over ‘Allah’
- Hindu nationalist training video goes viral
- Historic church destroyed in Syria
- Historic link shown between economic stress and violence to minorities
- Historic Syrian monastery to reopen following restoration
- Hong Kong Christians oppose Beijing’s policy
- How Saudi Arabia promotes extremist Islam
- How serious is Saudi Arabia about religious freedom?
- How to rebuild Nigeria after Boko Haram?
- Hundreds of refugees convert in Germany
- Hungary gives 3.2 million euros to help Middle East Christians
- Hurricane of violence has left landscape of blood
- Iceland makes blasphemy legal
- Imprisoned Mexican Protestants allowed home
- In Kurdistan, signs of diminished freedoms for Christians
- India ‘world’s most dangerous country for women’, as five activists gang-raped
- India ‘not a country for Christians’ but Minister says they’re ‘safe under Modi’
- India carol singers arrested for ‘trying to convert people to Christianity’
- India denies access to USCIRF – again
- India: ‘pressure from right-wing Hindus’ forced closure of Catholic children’s hostel
- India: ‘Kandhamal seven’ appeal hearings postponed
- India: 10 churches closed, Hindu nationalists seek closure of 20 more
- India: 15 Christians accused of ‘conversion’ in Jharkhand
- India: 271 Christians charged with converting Hindus through lies and drugs
- India: allegations of false conversions by Christians ‘baseless’
- India: alleged sex offence in Catholic school ‘attempt to tarnish image of Church’
- India: another state expected to pass ‘anti-conversion law’
- India: Archbishop of Delhi calls for prayer in run-up to 2019 elections
- India: bishop ‘shocked’ after Assam attack
- India: Catholic college attacked after refusing to perform Hindu rites
- India: Catholic schools under pressure in Madhya Pradesh
- India: Chhattisgarh Christians attacked by mob
- India: Christian convert killed and left on the road, beheaded
- India: Christians’ names missing from electoral lists
- India: church fire attack in Karnataka
- India: Eight Christians acquitted of kidnapping and forced conversion
- India: fines for saying ‘Christian’ prayers
- India: gang murder man in church
- India: Hindu says he wanted to ‘finish’ pastor with axe attack
- India: jobs for Jat caste ‘sidelines’ Christians
- India: Kandhamal victims wait, a year on, for government to obey Supreme Court
- India: Kerala criticised for ‘disrespectful’ cross demolition
- India: Life sentence for top politician gives hope for justice for Kandhamal Christians
- India: Modi ‘shocked’ at archbishop’s criticism
- India: Naxalites to blame for latest murder
- India: Nun killed in Kerala
- India: Priest’s arrest an attempt to ‘malign’ Church
- India: Punjab police ‘not serious’ about murdered Christian
- India: rise in vigilantism threatens minorities
- India: senior Church leaders call on Modi to help ‘control ideological hatred’ in Jharkhand
- India: two Christian women accused of ‘forced conversions’
- India: Uttarakhand becomes 7th state to pass ‘anti-conversion law’
- India: Victorious Dalit activist shows increased opposition to BJP
- India: Violence against Christians continues in run-up to 2019 elections
- India: violence against Christians in Tamil Nadu continues
- India: yoga centre accused of forcibly reconverting women and girls to Hinduism
- India’s Christians treated like terrorists, Catholic bishops say
- India’s government ‘rewriting history’ to appear more Hindu
- India’s government has to limit Hindu extremists
- India’s PM urged to investigate Delhi church fire
- India’s president says religious diversity should be ‘cherished’
- Indian bishop: Hindu nationalists fear ‘another 1947’
- Indian children ordered to hail ‘the land of the Hindus’
- Indian Christian forum demands withdrawal of ‘bogus’ charges of forced conversions
- Indian Christians protest after part of church demolished to make road wider
- Indian Christians threatened, images of Pope trampled on
- Indian church burning compared to Nazis
- Indian government body wants church confessions banned
- Indian pastor beaten up, then detained, after 11 Hindus convert to Christianity
- Indian pastor, assistant, wife and other women beaten up by Hindu extremists in Rajasthan
- Indian pastors arrested for evangelising
- Indian priest in critical condition after attack
- Indian school textbook describes Jesus as ‘demon’
- Indonesia ‘suppressing’ religions
- Indonesia ‘to guarantee rights of religious minorities’
- Indonesia appoints ‘incisive’ Muslim leader in attempt to combat extremism
- Indonesia approves new anti-terrorism law after Surabaya church bombings
- Indonesia bans Islamist group Hizb ut-Tahrir
- Indonesia Christians seek action against Islamists
- Indonesia church leader charged with blasphemy
- Indonesia High Court in ‘milestone’ ruling for religious freedom
- Indonesia President blames democracy for ills
- Indonesia presidential elections ‘vote for Jokowi’
- Indonesia religious freedom violation ‘increasing’
- Indonesia sees reduction in religious freedom violations
- Indonesia: ‘Saudi influence behind rise in Islamic extremism’, as churches continue to be closed
- Indonesia: ‘zero flexibility’ for adoptions by religious minorities
- Indonesia: Ahok refuses parole, as he hopes for early release
- Indonesia: Ahok’s blasphemy charges reduced after failed re-election bid
- Indonesia: Ahok’s accuser found guilty of hate speech
- Indonesia: Catholics forced to stop aid work after accusations of converting Muslims
- Indonesia: Christian Governor accused of blasphemy
- Indonesia: Christian politician accused of blasphemy for opposing Sharia-based bylaws
- Indonesia: Christian student faces jail sentence for blasphemy
- Indonesia: Christians cancel event Muslims say would have been ‘arena of apostasy’
- Indonesia: Cutting of burial cross in public cemetery ‘against constitution’
- Indonesia: death toll of Surabaya Christians confirmed at 12
- Indonesia: Islamists stop Christmas celebrations
- Indonesia: Jakarta’s new governor urged to protect rights of religious minorities
- Indonesia: New religious education bill requires registration of Sunday schools
- Indonesia: religious minorities ‘fearful’ of growing intolerance, says report
- Indonesia: Vote only for Muslims in 2018/19, say hardliners
- Indonesia’s president tells Catholic students to work for ‘harmony’
- Indonesia’s religious minorities protest against closure of worship places
- Indonesian archbishop calls for ‘national unity’
- Indonesian Christians flee violent attacks
- Indonesian Christians oppose new Jakarta Governor’s Christmas event
- Indonesian Islam to model harmony
- Indonesian laws thwart new church plans
- Indonesian musician faces jail for anti-Ahok hate speech
- Indonesian Muslim a ‘role model’ on tolerance
- Indonesian pastor freed
- Indonesian rights body to release anti-sectarian guidelines ahead of elections
- Indonesian schoolchildren ‘likely’ used notebooks containing IS propaganda
- Inquiry finds ‘no evidence’ of World Vision Gaza links to Hamas
- Internally displaced reach record high
- Iran breaks up post-Christmas service
- Iran continues to arrest Christians, on eve of 40th anniversary of revolution
- Iran jails another 18 converts
- Iran releases Christian prisoner
- Iran: 2 Christians given 8-year prison sentences
- Iran: another Christian convert ‘arrested, beaten and told to renounce faith’
- Iran: appeal due for Christians given 10 years for ‘missionary activities’
- Iran: appeal heard by judge with ‘poor track record in dealing with Christians’
- Iran: arrests of Christian converts continue
- Iran: Christian convert appealing 10-year sentence out on bail
- Iran: Crackdown on Christians continues with reports of beatings
- Iran: Four Christian converts detained after police raid houses and businesses
- Iran: Jailed convert to Christianity refused medical treatment
- Iran: Nadarkhani released, 3 others detained
- Iran: Pastor’s wife released early
- Iran: Wife of convicted pastor gets jail sentence of her own
- Iran: wife of jailed pastor next in court, then their son
- Iran’s clerics concerned by spread of Christianity among youth
- Iran’s religiously repressed and Internet freedom
- Iranian convert to Christianity – ‘If I went back, I’d be killed’
- Iranian Christian back in prison again
- Iranian Christian convert released on bail days after threat of ‘indefinite’ incarceration
- Iranian Christian converts ‘to be detained indefinitely’
- Iranian Christian released
- Iranian Christian released – two still detained
- Iranian Christian released by ‘courageous’ judge
- Iranian Christian released, but 90 still in prison
- Iranian Christian released, but another beaten
- Iranian Christian women describe ‘world’s most brutal prison’
- Iranian Christians begin jail terms
- Iranian Christians released ‘temporarily’
- Iranian Christians safe if ‘practise faith discreetly’ – European Court of Human Rights
- Iranian Christians sentenced, verdict says ‘claiming Jesus is Lord is attack against Islam’
- Iranian Christians’ jail terms ‘increasing’
- Iranian church closed, cross torn down
- Iranian convert jailed for 10 years
- Iranian convert jailed for evangelism
- Iranian convert marries in Sweden but still waiting on asylum claim
- Iranian converts arrested
- Iranian men ‘destroyed’ by rape
- Iranian mother and son Christian converts arrested
- Iranian officials interrogate 65-year-old Christian woman for 10 days, day and night
- Iranian pastor arrested
- Iranian pastor released after six years in prison
- Iranian prisoner denied treatment
- Iranian prisoners tortured and beaten
- Iranian website ‘hacked’ again
- Iranians await appeal verdict
- Iranians released two weeks early
- Iranians still don’t know why they were arrested
- Iraq Christians ‘lost everything’
- Iraq Patriarch to Shia clerics: ‘update discourse’
- Iraq urged to allow UN investigation into genocide
- Iraq: Basra Christians living in ‘deep fear and mistrust’
- Iraq: children wounded in Easter Monday explosion
- Iraq: Christian affairs adviser hurt
- Iraq: Christian school’s reopening a ‘victory over extremism’
- Iraq: More than 200 mass graves with thousands of bodies discovered
- Iraq: today’s vote on Kurdish independence is troubling the Middle East
- Iraq: UN team starts probe into IS war crimes
- Iraq’s children ‘neglected’
- Iraq’s Christian homes ‘grab’ continues
- Iraq’s Christians ‘could be gone in 5 years’
- Iraq’s young people must lead its rebuilding, says archbishop
- Iraqi Archbishop ‘begs’ Britain to send in troops
- Iraqi archbishop nominated for 2018 Nobel Peace Prize
- Iraqi Archbishop of Mosul: ‘My cousin, my friend, my teacher – all killed by terrorists’
- Iraqi Christian family ordered to leave IDP camp but have nowhere to go
- Iraqi Christian homes ‘looted after IS left’
- Iraqi Christian militia fighting ISIS
- Iraqi Christian MPs challenge their constitution
- Iraqi Christians hesitate to return to Bartella
- Iraqi Christians in Jordan in need
- Iraqi Christians reject second mayor installed by pro-Kurd council
- Iraqi Christians returning to Nineveh Plains after 3 years ‘need protection’
- Iraqi conversion law under review
- Iraqi Franciscan priest abducted in northwest Syria
- Iraqi MPs reject ‘safe areas’ for Christians
- Iraqi Patriarch challenges ‘identity law’
- Iraqi priest released
- Iraqis who fled Mosul and IS flee Turkish bombing
- IS ‘enshrines theology of rape’
- IS ‘mass rape’ of Iraqi minority women is ‘normal’
- IS ‘releases’ 50 Assyrian Christians
- IS ‘won’t escape justice’ after Trump signs genocide accountability act
- IS allegiance reported in Philippines
- IS blows up Assyrian church near Mosul
- IS builds army of children
- Is Chad helping to combat Boko Haram?
- IS claims deadly attack near old Egyptian monastery
- IS destroys Christian landmark in Mosul
- IS guilty of genocide, says US Secretary of State
- Is Iraq’s media helping ISIS?
- Is ISIS real Islam? Debate continues
- IS occupied Iraqi church bombed
- IS sex slave recalls having to watch torture of other women
- Is Sudan really ready for sanctions to be lifted?
- IS to cast long shadow over Iraqi civilians
- IS turns ancient Mosul church into mosque
- Is Uganda going backwards?
- IS urges militants to target Egypt’s Copts
- IS’s finances lead to auction of Christian homes
- ISIL in Libya kidnaps more Christians
- ISIS ‘the greatest preacher for Christianity in the world’
- ISIS burns Christian books
- ISIS commentators ‘too simplistic’
- ISIS defeated at ‘apocalyptic’ battleground, Dabiq
- ISIS has stunned the West into apathy
- ISIS loses Syrian town with Christian legacy
- ISIS makes Christians an offer
- ISIS preparing for worldwide religious cleansing
- ISIS used Iraqi church ‘as shooting range’
- ISIS’s humanitarian crisis continues
- Islam to overtake Christianity as world’s largest religion by 2070?
- Islamic extremism on rise in Philippines
- Islamic leader calls for prompt execution of Asia Bibi
- Islamic State kills priest in Sinai
- Islamic State regroups in Somalia, ‘without many obstacles’
- Islamic State releases 43 Assyrian hostages
- Islamic State releases more Christian hostages
- Islamic State’s ‘caliphate’ shrank 14% in 2015
- Islamist extremism: a growing phenomenon in East Africa
- Islamist forces battle for Hassaka and Aleppo
- Islamist rebels bolt Syrian coalition
- Islamist takeover in Dalga
- Islamists kidnap 20 Egyptian Christians in Libya
- Islamists suspected of bus attack killed, as Copts mourn
- Islamists’ attacks mark Nigerian Buhari’s 100 days
- Israel resettling Eritrean refugees in 3rd country
- Israel: Christianity’s ‘holiest site’ re-opens after tax dispute
- Israel: closure of Christianity’s ‘holiest site’ an ‘alarm signal’
- Israel: Messianic congregation reports abuse from Orthodox Jews
- Istanbul Patriarch ‘losing sleep’ over closed Orthodox seminary
- Istanbul Patriarch deplores ethnic tensions
- Italian priest ‘kidnapped’ in Syria
- Italian priest shot in Bangladesh
- Italy takes 1,000 refugees via humanitarian visas
- Jail then exile for Iranian convert
- Jailed Chinese pastor ‘close to death following torture’
- Jakarta’s governor, Ahok, jailed for 2 years for blasphemy
- Jerusalem church leaders object to municipal tax levy
- Jerusalem Patriarch says settlers are pushing Christians out of Old City
- Jharkhand the latest Indian state to pass ‘anti-conversion bill’
- Jihad not a war against Christians?
- Jordan curriculum change ‘acknowledges’ Christians
- Jordanian King ‘will protect Arab Christians’
- Jordanian writer killed after Facebook ‘blasphemy’
- Judges to newspaper: Stop saying ‘Allah’
- Justice moves slowly in Pakistan
- Justice needed for CAR ‘war crimes’, says Human Rights Watch
- Kaduna deaths – Nigeria army complicit?
- Kandhamal riots were result of Hindu political conspiracy, says activist
- Kazakh ‘sting operation’ to catch out Christian backfires
- Kazakh arrested for praying
- Kazakh Christian could face 10 years in jail
- Kazakh pastor released, then arrested
- Kazakh pastor’s trial begins
- Kazakh pastor’s trial postponed
- Kazakhstan asks Christian organisations for info on youth members. Their answer: No.
- Kazakhstan Baptist convicted for refusing to pay state ‘expert’ to analyse his Christian books
- Kazakhstan church banned for singing songs at summer camp
- Kazakhstan deports missionary for conducting baptisms
- Kazakhstan passes Religion Law that ‘undermines principles of human rights’
- Kazakhstan proposes further restrictions on religion
- Kazakhstan releases Christian imprisoned ‘as message to Muslims thinking about converting’
- Kazakhstan: 69 punished for practising faith in first half of 2018
- Kazakhstan: Child in church triggers police raid
- Kazakhstan: closure of Jehovah’s Witnesses operation is sign of creeping religious intolerance
- Kazakhstan: Hundreds punished for practising faith in 2017
- Kazakhstan: more Baptists fined ‘for unregistered meeting’
- Kazakhstan’s new restrictions to ‘flagrantly’ violate religious rights
- Keeping hope alive in Syria
- Kenya coastal region on alert for Christmas attacks by Al-Shabaab
- Kenya to ‘re-integrate’ ex-Al-Shabaab recruits
- Kenya to force religious groups to register
- Kenya: four ‘non-Muslims’ killed on Somalia border
- Kenyan churches ‘targeted’ for attack
- Kenyan imam jailed for radicalising children
- Kenyan pastor killed after running peace workshop
- Kenyan university reopens 9 months after massacre
- Kenyan worship leader one of two killed for failing to say Islamic prayer of faith
- Kenyans call for Garissa College reopening
- Key witness testimony against Brunson refuted by Bloomberg
- Khartoum ‘bombs’ Catholic school in Nuba Mountains
- Kidnapped archbishops ‘not’ released
- Kidnapped archbishops ‘in good health’
- Kidnapped bishops ‘still alive’
- Kidnapped Leah sends message home
- Kidnapped Nigerian Christian girl Leah Sharibu’s home burgled
- Kidnapped Nigerian girl ‘will never become a Muslim,’ father says
- Kidnapped optician ‘shot dead after singing Amazing Grace’
- Kidnapped priest still missing
- Kidnapped Syrian priest released unharmed
- Kidnappers release Syrian nuns
- Kidnappings surge in Egypt
- Killed for being Christian? Well, no, and yes
- Killing in Kessab
- Killings continue in eastern DRC
- Killings escalate in Nigeria
- Kony urged to surrender in CAR
- Korean ‘orphans’ could face execution
- Korean church leaders ‘can broker peace’
- Korean Peninsula a ‘powder keg that needs true peace’
- Korean reunification would not resemble German experience, says theologian
- Kurdish government opens church for refugees who fled IS
- Kurdish YPG ‘occupy’ Assyrian villages in northeast Syria
- Kurdistan elections: Christian parties want ‘real needs’ of minority to be heard
- Kurds ‘expel Christians’ in Hassaka
- Kuwait: MPs reject building new churches
- Kyrgyz church arson followed dispute over Christian’s burial
- Kyrgyzstan: ‘We will kill you’ sprayed on church wall
- Lake Chad Basin crisis to dominate African Union Summit
- Laos Christian ‘denied medication’ dies
- Laos Christians arrested for attending church
- Laos government agrees to religious freedom education
- Laos pastor murdered ‘in cold blood’
- Laos: Law on associations ‘skewed to target religious minorities’
- Large number of Muslim refugees ‘turn to Christ’
- Latest Assyrian hostages’ release by ISIS
- Launch of new commission to address persecution
- Lawyer ordered to apologise or be barred from work after highlighting Sri Lanka’s intolerance
- Lawyer: Asia Bibi is on a plane, destination unknown
- Lawyers begin hunger strike
- Lebanese men lashed in Saudi Arabia
- Lebanese stockpiling weapons against IS
- Lebanon on the brink
- Libya: bodies of beheaded Copts found
- Libyan Christian arrested for proselytising
- Life in Islamabad’s Christian slum
- List: 165 kidnapped girls are Christian
- Lost, then found, then lost
- Maiduguri trauma centre for Boko Haram victims
- Main suspect behind Sri Lanka Easter churches’ deaths arrested
- Malatya murder suspects out of jail
- Malatya murders fault of Turkish ultranationalists
- Malatya victims’ families awarded compensation
- Malaysia ‘Allah’ verdict next month
- Malaysia arrests four Finnish nationals for distributing Christian literature
- Malaysia elections too close to call
- Malaysia releases four Finnish Christians
- Malaysia returns ‘Allah’ CDs to owner
- Malaysia: ‘IS member planned attack on non-Muslims and their worship places’
- Malaysia: Nearly 500 days since his abduction, Raymond Koh’s wife renews call for action
- Malaysia: Use of ‘Allah’ will get day in court
- Malaysia’s ‘deep-seated tensions’ exposed by MP’s call for religious freedom
- Malaysia’s new chief justice is a Catholic
- Malaysian Islamic authorities withdraw charges
- Malaysian Muslim’s right to convert appealed
- Malaysian pastor Raymond Koh’s abduction has increased fears of ‘religious vigilantism’
- Malaysian sergeant denies implicating ‘very senior police officers’ in pastor’s kidnapping
- Malaysian woman to get back ‘Allah’ Christian CDs
- Malaysians dispute election result
- Maldives leaves Commonwealth over rights progress
- Maldives removes church image from school textbook
- Maldives to EU: ‘Islam shall be the basis of all laws’
- Maldives told to retract criticism of UN Special Rapporteur
- Mali Islamist to pay millions in compensation for damaged mausoleums, but nothing for churches
- Mali the ‘epicentre’ of jihadist groups in the Sahel
- Mali: Colombian nun ‘not in good health’ after 7 months as hostage
- Mali’s mausoleums rebuilt, but not churches
- Mariam Ibrahim: ‘Sharia causing many to suffer’
- Mass arrest of Thailand’s Christian asylum seekers
- Mass grave of Christians found in Iraq
- Mauritania: death penalty for blasphemy ‘even if they repent’
- Merkel accused of downplaying attacks on Copts
- Mexican Priest’s body found on Christmas Day
- Mexico still ‘most dangerous country to be a priest’
- Mid East Christians on UN Security Council agenda?
- Middle East faith & money toxic for Horn of Africa
- Migrant boat captain tried for killing Christians
- Migrants fear home, not death
- Migrants thrown overboard in ‘religious hate’
- Missing Chibok girls ‘raped almost daily’
- MNLF release pastor in Zamboanga
- Mob attack damages Copt homes in Minya, Egypt
- Monastery closure hits Sinai economy
- Monastery converted to prison
- Monk stokes religious tension in Myanmar
- More attacks on Christianity in Bangladesh
- More attacks on Christians in northern Nigeria
- More Christians ‘abducted’ in Syria
- More Christians arrested in Nanle
- More destruction of Chinese churches and crosses
- More than 80 countries ‘favour’ one religion over others – Pew Research Center
- More UK Muslim refugees convert to Christianity
- Moroccan Christians demand equal marriage rights
- Morocco Christian survives assassination attempt
- Most of today’s wars are in Muslim countries
- Mosul still ‘extremely dangerous’, says returning Christian woman
- Mother and son escape after 2 years under IS
- Mother Superior, 71, gang-raped in India
- Motive unclear in attack on Copt priest’s daughter
- Mozambique: Islamists kill 12 in latest attack in Cabo Delgado
- Musa murder linked to Boko Haram
- Museum recalls tenacity of Japan’s hidden Christians
- Muslim ‘had to kill sister’ for marrying Christian
- Muslim asylum seekers find shelter in Germany’s churches
- Muslim who protected Christians dies of wounds
- Muslims and Christians unite to restore ancient Iraqi church
- Muslims clean up Mosul monastery desecrated by IS
- Muslims condemn killings of Copts, as more flee
- Muslims condemn threats toward Egypt’s Christians
- Muslims defend Christians from Islamist attack
- Muslims hid Christian woman from IS for years
- Muslims in Egypt speak out against Palm Sunday attacks
- Muslims must ‘face up’ to Quran’s violence
- Myanmar army ‘covered up’ Christian killings
- Myanmar Baptists face eight years in prison for helping journalist to photograph bombed church
- Myanmar Christians arrested for praying, as fears that northern conflict will ‘intensify’
- Myanmar Christians join latest peace talks
- Myanmar monk builds pagoda on church grounds
- Myanmar on the road to religious freedom
- Myanmar pastors charged with ‘aiding rebels’
- Myanmar police accused of raping Christian, 15
- Myanmar regulates interfaith marriage
- Myanmar: ‘400 villages destroyed, 150,000 people displaced’ in Kachin
- Myanmar: Army accused of destroying churches and turning them into Buddhist temples
- Myanmar: Bible students ‘suffering health and psychological problems’ after escaping armed group
- Myanmar: Ethnic army detains 92 pastors, orders others to leave
- Myanmar: Kachin Baptists freed in prisoner amnesty
- Myanmar: Kachin Baptists jailed for helping photograph bombed church
- Myanmar: More Bible students escape, but 20 women still held
- Myanmar: new peace talks announced during Pope’s visit
- Myanmar: Peace talks for settling conflict with majority-Christian ethnic groups
- Myanmar: Pope Francis’ visit could ‘heal wounds of country’
- Myanmar’s new Speaker represents ethnic minorities
- Myanmar’s ‘forgotten Christians’
- Myanmar’s blocking of aid to Kachin ‘may amount to war crime’ – report
- Myanmar’s minorities in government talks
- N Korea detains US man ‘stealing’ for his church
- N Korea parades missing pastor at press conference
- N Korea says Canadian pastor ‘admits’ espionage
- N Korean torture victim changes story
- N. Nigerian church attacked for ‘Friday’ services
- Nanle Church update: 11 released
- NE Nigeria has ‘more refugees than all of Europe’
- Nepal ‘anything but progressive’ on religious freedom
- Nepal ‘should practise what it preaches’ as UN member
- Nepal Christians arrested for “forced conversions”
- Nepal criminalises conversions and ‘hurting religious sentiment’
- Nepal earthquake revives burial debate
- Nepal PM ‘commits to address’ Christian concerns ahead of elections
- Nepal PM promises religious freedom
- Nepal to further tighten laws on religious conversion
- Nepal: 4 more churches attacked
- Nepal: 4 women arrested for ‘attempting to forcefully convert people to Christianity’
- Nepal: amending conversion law ‘not enough’
- Nepal: Catholic church interior ‘entirely destroyed’ after arson
- Nepal: Couple deported for ‘converting Hindus into Christians’
- Nepal’s criminalisation of conversion a ‘direct infringement’ of religious freedom
- Nepal’s ‘opportunity’ to review religion laws
- New arrest of Vietnamese Christian rights activist
- New book rejects Western view that Christians ‘cannot be victims’
- New cardinal warns of rise of ‘extremist Islam’ in Madagascar
- New concern for North Korea
- New dataset does the numbers on Boko Haram
- New initiative encourages FoRB in the Commonwealth
- New IS branch discovered in Nigeria, as UK archbishop calls for end to violence
- New military plan to combat Boko Haram progress
- New persecution book goes to great lengths
- New promise that bodies of 21 beheaded Christians will be returned to families
- New report slams Vietnam’s human-rights record
- New tactics needed for religious violence
- New UNHRC members criticised for ‘dismal rights record’
- NGO law shows China’s ‘challenging environment’
- Niger: Christians and Muslims fighting radicalism
- Nigergian army back in control of Chibok
- Nigeria denies paying ransom for Dapchi girls’ release from Boko Haram
- Nigeria explores amnesty for Boko Haram
- Nigeria in ‘Hezbollah’ arrests
- Nigeria largest displaced population in Africa
- Nigeria stops all transport in Borno
- Nigeria: ‘Dangerous speech and polarising narratives’ fuel Middle Belt violence – report
- Nigeria: ‘Government is Boko Haram but without bomb’, says church leader
- Nigeria: 10 killed in Kogi state as herdsmen attacks move south
- Nigeria: 16 killed after New Year’s Eve church service
- Nigeria: 338 rescued from Boko Haram
- Nigeria: 44 dead in Taraba after ‘Fulani attack’
- Nigeria: 7 more killed by suspected herdsmen in what Benue governor calls a ‘jihad’
- Nigeria: 7 more killed in another Benue attack
- Nigeria: 7 more killed in violence attributed to Fulani herdsmen
- Nigeria: Bishop accuses authorities of inaction in face of ‘wave of terror’
- Nigeria: British missionary’s kidnapper killed
- Nigeria: cattle-grazing ban seeks to end Fulani violence
- Nigeria: Fears for captive Chibok girls as Boko Haram forced to flee
- Nigeria: First conviction over Chibok girls kidnapping
- Nigeria: Fulani herdsmen conflict has growing religious dimension – BBC
- Nigeria: girl, 13, kidnapped to be converted to Islam, freed four days later
- Nigeria: herders’ attacks completely decimate villages in ‘scorched earth’ campaigns
- Nigeria: Kidnapped Leah Sharibu calls on president for help
- Nigeria: Kidnapped priest freed
- Nigeria: Leah Sharibu’s 15th birthday passes in captivity
- Nigeria: outrage at Chibok kidnappings ‘inspired’ Boko Haram to use female bombers
- Nigeria: religious leaders unite in ‘Appeal of Peace’ after violence in Jos
- Nigeria: Seminary attacked, priest shot for ‘asking herdsmen to stop invading our school’
- Nigeria: Stop ‘rumour mongering’ that led to Kaduna violence, says church leader
- Nigeria’s Christians flee ahead of election
- Nigeria’s herder-farmer conflict escalates due to government inaction – Amnesty International
- Nigerian Army claims it’s freed 5000 hostages
- Nigerian Christian fundraiser for terror victims
- Nigerian Christian schoolgirl ‘escaped’, only to be sent back to Boko Haram
- Nigerian Christians ask UK to help bring ‘healing, forgiveness and reconciliation’
- Nigerian elections: will religion play a part?
- Nigerian Fulani attacks ‘kill 1,269 since 2013’
- Nigerian girls abducted, forced to convert, marry
- Nigerian government ‘complicit’ in ‘stealth jihad’, say Christian leaders
- Nigerian government ‘not doing enough’ to protect citizens – Amnesty
- Nigerian Islamic Sultan calls for peace and unity
- Nigerian kidnappers have released 101 girls. Nine have not returned; one of them is a Christian.
- Nigerian officials stole food meant for starving victims of Boko Haram
- Nigerian President’s ongoing medical treatment raises fears of yet more sectarian power struggles
- Nigerians displaced by Boko Haram fear going home
- Nineveh Plains Christians ‘slowly returning to normal’
- No decision on Malay Christian’s right to ‘Allah’
- No future in Pakistan as minority woman
- No new evidence in South Sudanese pastors’ trial
- No news of Chinese Catholic priest missing for 8 months
- No religious minority representative on Pakistan PM’s new cabinet
- No solution for Vietnam’s persecuted Montagnard-people
- Non-state actors behind most religious freedom violations in Indonesia – report
- North Korea asks US universities for help
- North Korea detains another Korean-American ‘Christian’
- North Korea frees US student Otto Warmbier ‘in coma’
- North Korea shocks UN Commission
- North Korea tells US to drop ‘anachronistic human rights racket’
- North Korea unexpectedly frees US detainees
- North Korea-held US-Korean ‘spy’ said to be pastor
- North Korea, China, Russia and Iran ‘forces of instability’
- North Korea: A country with no Christian children
- North Korea: Trump welcomes home released trio
- North Korea’s ‘Christian university’ in balancing act with regime
- North Korea’s human rights in UN spotlight
- North Korea’s torture, starvation and killings
- North Korean accused of ‘spying’ after visiting Christian relatives in China
- North Korean defectors share ordeals with Pence in Seoul
- North Korean ex-detainee was told his ‘hostile act against regime’ was prayer
- Northern Nigerians ‘created Boko Haram’
- Not the usual blasphemy conviction
- Number of North Koreans fleeing to South Korea drops by 13%
- Nun editor flees Bangladesh after Islamist threats
- Nun says no to exam dress code
- Nuns beaten in fresh attacks on Mexico’s Catholics
- Obama addresses persecution during India visit
- Obama appoints religious minorities envoy
- Oldest Christian monastery in Iraq destroyed
- On trial in Iran for celebrating Christmas
- One ‘Christian’ town freed en route to Mosul
- One of ‘worst ever’ years for Copts
- One pastor among NE Nigeria blast victims
- One year on, kidnapped Malaysian pastor’s wife pleads for his release
- Ongoing religious freedom challenges in the Commonwealth
- Only 0.5% Syrian refugees now in US are Christian
- Otto Warmbier’s father says ‘no excuse’ for North Korea to deny son medical care
- Pakistan ‘beset with religious rage’
- Pakistan bans TV shows for discussing blasphemy
- Pakistan bishop praises reward for Muslim guards
- Pakistan bishops call for new census
- Pakistan Christians process in Lahore, month after mob attack
- Pakistan court bans Valentine’s Day celebrations
- Pakistan haunted by school massacre
- Pakistan law amendments help protect Christians
- Pakistan pressure on foreign nationals continues
- Pakistan releases IS-linked woman who planned Easter suicide attack
- Pakistan Senate seeks same sentences for blasphemy offenders and those who falsely accuse
- Pakistan should be ‘country of particular concern’ – US senators
- Pakistan student kills school principal in blasphemy row
- Pakistan: 106 charged with murder
- Pakistan: 31 sentenced over ‘blasphemy’ killing, 26 acquitted
- Pakistan: bomb attack on Christian colony kills young boy
- Pakistan: Islamic university opens Christian chapel – a first
- Pakistan: Qadri’s death sentence upheld
- Pakistan: Suspected killer of Christian student freed
- Pakistan’s blasphemy laws ‘fundamentally unfair’
- Pakistan’s bombing ‘part of wider struggle’
- Pakistan’s first female Christian footballer
- Pakistan’s new cardinal says government unable to stop religious extremism
- Pakistani blasphemy case postponed for 5th time
- Pakistani Christian assembly member vows to protect rights of religious minorities
- Pakistani Christian bailed over ‘blasphemy’
- Pakistani Christians call for ‘fair’ blasphemy inquiries
- Pakistani Christians find unlikely ally
- Pakistani murder trial may move to military court
- Pakistani woman calls for Western countries to recognise Christian persecution
- Pastor placed under house arrest
- Pastor still detained in Philippines
- Pastor who helped N. Korea defectors found dead
- Pastor’s death fuels insecurity fears in Mombasa
- Patriarch in ‘freed’ Syrian town: ‘IS killed 21’
- Peace efforts in Tanzania ‘useless’
- Perpetrators of Minya bus attack and the beheading of Coptic Christians captured in Libya
- Persecution ‘key driver of displacement’ says UNHCR, voicing concerns about returns
- Persecution of Christians ‘still not taken seriously’
- Pew reports decline in religious restrictions
- Philippines cathedral bomb attack followed warning of ‘very real’ terrorist threat
- Philippines parliament approves bill for autonomous Bangsamoro
- Philippines priest celebrates first year of ‘second life’ after escape
- Philippines priest describes ‘nightmare’ ordeal in Marawi
- Philippines rejects hostage deal with Islamist militants
- Philippines: Bangsamoro draft law includes religious freedom provision
- Philippines: Catholic priest free but over 40 hostages still held in Marawi
- Philippines: Catholic priest, Marawi hostage for almost 4 months, tries to find healing
- Philippines: former missionary freed
- Philippines: Internet café bomb kills two Christian teenagers
- Philippines: Islamic group vows to help Catholics with Marawi’s rebuilding
- Philippines: Islamist separatists endorse fatwa denouncing extremist violence
- Philippines: Marawi Catholics accompany Muslims in Ramadan fast
- Philippines: Marawi conflict ‘not only about religion’, study finds
- Philippines: Marawi’s rebuilding goes beyond infrastructure
- Philippines: Mindanao Christians present ‘policy agenda’ for new Muslim region
- Photo exhibition by Sinai slaves
- Photographer tells stories of ‘Boko Haram girls’
- Pledges to avert famine for 3m in Lake Chad region
- Plight of Christians in Myanmar under-reported
- Police arrest man over Bangladesh pastor attack
- Police arrest pastor for Sunday sermon
- Police in China given quotas for how many Christians to arrest
- Police tell Mexicans not to evangelise
- Polish cleric, 15 hostages, released
- Political party campaigns for Nepal to become a Hindu state
- Polygamy creates terrorists, says Nigerian Emir
- Pope advised to stay away from China
- Pope and Assyrian patriarch ‘share suffering’ of Christians in Middle East
- Pope and Patriarch ‘feared nuclear war could erupt over Syria’
- Pope angers Turkey over Armenia
- Pope meets evangelical leaders to strengthen religious freedom
- Pope shares ‘worsening concerns’ over CAR
- Pope: ‘Church without martyrs is without Jesus’
- Pope: ‘persecutors don’t care about denominations’
- Pope: Don’t forget persecuted Christians
- Pre-election ‘warning’ attack on Indonesian church
- Priest held by Taliban gives first interview
- Priest kidnapped in Yemen appeals for help in new video
- Priests visit scene of anti-Christian violence
- Pro-Hindu BJP wins over Christian voters in northeast India
- Prominent China church demolished – second in month
- Proposed Nepal constitution silent on secularism
- Prosecutor in Youhanabad lynching case found guilty of trying to convert 42 Christians
- Protests as Indonesia cracks down on ‘groups that threaten state ideology’
- Protests as Mumbai officials remove cross from ‘private land’
- Push to include Christians in IS ‘genocide’ charge
- Qaryatain Christians given 48-hour ultimatum
- Qatar conference: ‘no peace in Middle East without democracy and rule of law’
- Raids on ‘illegal’ worship meetings in rebel-held Ukraine
- Rape as weapon of war prolongs victims’ agony
- Recommended reading
- Recommended reading, Pt. II
- Record anti-Christian violence in India’s most populous state
- Refugee churches in Khartoum ordered to ‘register’
- Refugees call for African Union to stop Eritrea’s ‘reign of terror’
- Released Canadian Christian describes ‘harsh’ conditions inside N Korean labour camp
- Religion can help China’s economy, says new report
- Religious and secular groups unite to declare freedom of belief is a right
- Religious animosity grows in Egypt
- Religious freedom ‘essential goal’ in normalising relations with Sudan – US commission
- Religious freedom ‘most important foreign relations topic’ – Sam Brownback
- Religious freedom a prerequisite for sustainable development, expert says
- Religious freedom ambassador visits Mexico
- Religious freedom in Nepal ‘teetering on the edge’
- Religious freedom is ‘great cause of our time’
- Religious freedom learning platform launched at UN
- Religious freedom reduces terrorism, says US ambassador Brownback
- Religious freedom violations in Asia increasing – UN rapporteur
- Religious groups face extinction around world
- Religious intolerance increasing, says Pew annual report
- Religious minorities’ struggles the focus of Morocco conference
- Religious unity risks fuelling extremism
- Religious-freedom violations in education ‘under-reported’
- Renovated church re-opens 30 miles from IS
- Repeal of Indian law banning ‘extremists’ in government
- Report of attack on Indian nun sparks protests
- Report: 22 Christians released by IS
- Report: China’s ‘re-education’ camps could hold over a million people
- Report: Nigeria violence is sectarian
- Reports: Arrest made in Pakistan church bombings
- Reports: Cease-fire with Boko Haram reached
- Repression of Maldives Christians to intensify
- Rescued Chibok girl still missing
- Retired Iranian pastor jailed
- Retired pastor tried in Tehran
- Rights group tells Russia to ‘properly respect’ religious freedom
- Roman, Russian patriarchs to meet in Cuba
- Rome’s Colosseum to be floodlit red to remember Asia Bibi and Boko Haram victim
- Rouhani victory ‘not free nor fair’
- Russia approves ‘anti-missionary bill’
- Russia closes Baptist church despite recent praise of Protestants
- Russia considers amending ‘anti-missionary law’
- Russia outlaws Jehovah’s Witnesses as ‘extremist group’
- Russia pledges to safeguard future of Christians in Middle East
- Russia: new ruling could reduce prosecutions under ‘anti-missionary’ law
- Russia’s religious communities face ‘unclear’ requirements
- Russian dissident and priest Yakunin dies at 80
- Rwanda: 700 churches closed down – in just one province
- Rwanda: Six pastors arrested following shutdown of 700 churches
- S. Korean missionary gets life sentence
- S. Sudan pastors await new appeal outcome
- S. Sudan pastors’ trial in Khartoum delayed
- Saeed Abedini completes third year in prison
- Satellite evidence of CAR destruction
- Saudi Arabia church plan ‘mooted’
- Saudi Arabia clerics ‘guilty of hate speech’ against religious minorities
- Saudi Arabia pledges to scrutinise hadiths to ‘eliminate’ extremism
- Saudi Arabia to ban ‘extremist ideologies’ from schools and universities
- Saudi Arabia to reopen ancient church as ‘gift’ to visiting Lebanese Patriarch
- Saudi Arabia told: ‘Christians are not second-class citizens’
- Saudi Crown Prince makes ‘unprecedented’ visit to Coptic Pope
- Saudi intellectual urges Muslim nations to treat Christians as equal citizens
- Saudi Prince ‘commits’ to interfaith dialogue
- Saudi school textbooks still ‘promote hatred toward religious minorities’ – USCIRF
- Saudi schoolbooks ‘teach students to hate those of other faiths’
- Scores dead in DR Congo attacks
- SE Asia rights groups sign religion charter
- Second man dies after church attack
- Secret ministry of Chinese missionaries in northern Iraq
- Security guard stabbed at church in Egypt’s Alexandria
- Séléka attacks hospital in CAR
- Seleka releases Bossangoa Catholics
- Senator pushes for religious freedom envoy
- Seven Christians smuggled out of IS-held Raqqa
- Several Nigerians killed immediatly after truce
- Sharia by-law in Indonesia ‘biased against poor’
- Sharia enforced in Libya
- Sharia postponed in Brunei
- Shea: Copt massacre may unite Egypt
- Sifting through the debris of IS’s destruction
- Silence on human rights ‘deafening’ as Turkmenistan hosts Asian Games
- Sinai Christian shot after ‘confessing’ his faith
- Six Red Cross workers among dozens killed in C. African Republic
- Somalia Christians ‘killed by their children’s children’
- Somalia, Brunei ban Christmas
- Somaliland closes only Catholic church due to public pressure – it re-opened a week ago after 30 years
- Some Boko Haram members seek Christ
- South Korea denies claims Chinese nationals killed in Pakistan were missionaries
- South Korean ‘Christians’ attacked
- South Korean pastors arrested for helping North Korean defectors
- South Sudan’s Christians return to Sudan, despite pressures
- Sri Lanka: Facebook told to block religious hate speech
- Sri Lanka: Sharp increase in violence against Christians
- Sudan ‘tramples’ on its people’s rights
- Sudan bombs Catholic hospital
- Sudan charges 5 Christians over church dispute
- Sudan church council leader summoned before Criminal Court
- Sudan defends human rights record, saying it ‘enjoys religious freedom and unprecedented openness’
- Sudan extends ceasefire with rebels
- Sudan finds woman innocent of indecent dress
- Sudan government demolishes Bahri church building
- Sudan government’s official links with janjaweed
- Sudan loses ‘bright young leader’
- Sudan: ‘Christianisation’ a problem
- Sudan: Christian refugee children made to recite Muslim prayers to get food
- Sudan: Christian women fined for ‘indecency’
- Sudan: Justice criticises NISS intelligence agency
- Sudan: Nuba Christians face food crisis
- Sudan: pastor released, but others held
- Sudan: Three churches burned down twice within one month
- Sudan’s rights record in spotlight ahead of US talks on easing sanctions
- Sudan’s treatment of minorities ‘woeful’
- Sudan’s trial of pastors for ‘spying’ continues
- Sudanese ‘apostasy’ Mariam now in the US
- Sudanese apostasy mother to campaign
- Sudanese Christian shackled during child birth
- Sudanese church destroyed with 24 hours’ notice
- Sudanese church leader charged with apostasy
- Sudanese pastors arrested
- Sudanese woman gives birth on death row
- Sunni Arabs ‘helped drive out’ Middle East Christians
- Sunni militants push Christians out of Qaraqosh
- Sweden opens church for 5,000 Christians who fled Middle East
- Syria: 11 churches attacked since February
- Syria: Christians and Yazidis among 250,000 displaced in Afrin
- Syria: Damascus churches damaged as Christian neighbourhoods hit
- Syria: more families return to Homs
- Syria: Report highlights ‘brutality against Christian clerics’, with five still missing
- Syria’s Christian villages ‘hollowed out’ by IS
- Syriac Christians in front line in battle against IS in Raqqa
- Syriac church torched
- Syrian Christian beheaded
- Syrian Christians favour Assad to bring peace
- Syrian Christians have wedding despite IS threat
- Syrian militants held for Maaloula nuns’ kidnap
- Syrian priest ‘shot not beheaded’
- Syrian priest calls for end of ‘folly’
- Syrian priest describes time with ISIS
- Syrian rebels staged protecting churches
- Syrian villages ‘liberated’ from Islamic State
- Syrians struggle for basic necessities
- Tajik pastor placed in solitary confinement in prison 350km from home
- Tajikistan pastor jailed for singing religious songs ends appeal
- Tajikistan to ‘tighten restrictions’
- Tajikistan: three-year sentence for pastor for ‘singing extremist songs’
- Tajikistan’s new Religion Law ‘represents total control’
- Talks to free Chibok girls failed three times
- Tanzania reconsiders Islamic courts
- Tanzanian church bombed; two dead
- Targeting of Egypt’s Copts condemned
- Tawadros cancels appearances
- Tehran hosts 4th Christian-Muslim summit
- Temporary release for one Iranian Christian, court hearings for others
- Ten killed as Christian college attacked in South Sudan
- Terrorist link to torched churches
- Thai Buddhist calls for action against nationalism
- Thailand called to release detained Vietnamese Montagnard refugees
- That explains it
- The Christian teenager IS turned into an atheist
- The Mexican bishop who negotiates with the cartels
- The Mosul church that tells the story of a city
- The politics of violence
- The suffering of an Eritrean refugee
- The West pays too little attention to Boko Haram
- Third Iranian Christian granted bail
- Those churches demolished by Chinese officials?
- Thousands of Nigerian refugees forced back home to looming famine
- Threatened Asia Bibi family make fresh appeal
- Three Iranian Christians sentenced to 6 years each
- Three killed, three kidnapped as ADF Islamists strike again in eastern DRC
- Three months on, Islamists still hold Christian hostages, as Marawi residents start to rebuild
- Three more priests become victims of gang violence in Mexico
- Three priests killed, another tortured in Mexico
- Tiberias: Arson suspected in church fire
- Tony Blair calls for focus on radical Islam
- Top Indonesian cop: Dismantle Islamic Front
- Trial ‘imminent’ for Tajikistan pastor, on unspecified charges
- Trump calls on Arab, Muslim leaders to end ‘slaughter of Christians’
- Trump presses Turkish president to release jailed US pastor
- Trump travel ban dints Iraqi Christians’ support
- Trump’s Jerusalem move rejected by Arab Christian leaders, who fear backlash
- Trump’s migrant policy ‘a trap for Christians’
- Tuareg Islamists refuse to sign peace deal
- Tunisia’s religious freedom curbed by societal pressure – UN Rapporteur
- Tunisian Islamic hardliners ascendant
- Tunisians protest against closure of cafes and restaurants during Ramadan
- Turkey ‘defined by inflexible religiosity’
- Turkey allows first church to be built since 1923
- Turkey moves Malatya murder trial court
- Turkey vote ‘could lead to hate crimes against non-Muslims’
- Turkey’s Protestant Christians ‘feel stronger’ after trauma of Brunson case
- Turkish court halts expropriation of Armenian cathedral
- Turkish state interferes in Armenian Church elections
- Turkmenistan President’s reelection ‘guaranteed’
- Turkmenistan repressing religious freedom through ‘fines, raids and torture’
- Turkmenistan says religious communities that don’t re-register don’t exist
- Two ‘young girls’ used as human bombs in Nigeria
- Two Eritrean Christian women die after hunger strike
- Two Iranian converts arrested and taken to unknown locations
- Two Malaysian nuns assaulted – one now dead
- Two missing pastors; Myanmar army link suspected
- Two priests kidnapped in eastern DR Congo
- Two UN peacekeepers among dozens killed by Islamist militants in eastern DRC
- U.S. Congress gets an update on religious freedom
- U.S. pins N Korea atrocities on Kim
- U.S. tags Boko Haram as terrorists
- UAE an ‘oasis of freedom’ for foreign Christians
- Uganda churches opposed to registration plan
- Uganda troops fight Al-Shabaab
- UK and US must ‘do God’ together
- UK appoints religious freedom envoy
- UK bishops urge government to put money where mouth is on religious freedom
- UK Coptic bishop receives Welby’s highest award
- UK government commits £12 million to championing religious freedom
- UK in need of a Global Envoy for Religious Freedom
- UK leaders say IS guilty of Christian ‘genocide’
- UK Muslim leaders’ fatwa on IS jihadists
- UK optician kidnapped and killed in Niger Delta, three other medical aid workers rescued
- UK parliamentary group calls out 27 countries for ‘significant’ religious freedom violations
- UK unfair to Christian convert asylum seekers?
- UK wants to build international coalition to address Christian persecution
- UK: Prince of Wales describes persecution of Christians as ‘barbaric’
- Ukraine Baptist church closed by separatists
- Ukraine Christians living in fear
- Ukraine rebels accuse Christians of spying
- Ukraine: Churches forced to close after registration denied
- UN ‘overlooked’ IS crime of forced displacement
- UN calls for abolition of death penalty for blasphemy and apostasy
- UN calls for aid as deadly violence continues in CAR
- UN condemns ‘barbaric’ Boko Haram
- UN finds gross human rights violations in Eritrea
- UN rapporteur welcomes Uzbekistan’s religious freedom pledge
- UN religious-freedom rapporteur to assess Tunisia
- UN says 600,000 in need of food aid in S. Kordofan
- UN Security Council is ‘failing Syria’
- UN Special Rapporteur: ‘repeal blasphemy laws that invite hatred’
- UN told to renew mandate of Iran Special Rapporteur on human rights
- UN troops on their way to CAR
- UN urges Vietnam to stop ‘torture’ of Christian
- UN warns of Syria ‘genocide’
- UN: CAR in danger of genocide
- Unauthorised Christian activity banned in Xinjiang
- Uncertain future for Canada religious freedom post
- UNESCO to consider Japan’s persecution sites
- UNHCR to Cameroon: Stop deporting Nigerian refugees
- Unicef: Boko Haram increasing use of child suicide bombers
- Unity among Cuban Christians unprecedented following constitutional vote
- Unprecedented Muslim prayer call at Haghia Sophia
- US ‘passive’ on IS’s ‘war on Christianity’
- US ‘sidelining’ role of religion in diplomacy is ‘devastating’
- US ‘indifferent’ to oppressed Christians
- US aid to Middle East will fund faith groups before ‘ineffective’ UN
- US Ambassador tells Nigerians: “Citizens are the government”
- US and UN strike $55 million deal for Iraq’s religious minorities
- US Christian arrested for ‘hostile acts’ against North Korea
- US commission calls for Iranian Christians’ release after ‘new miscarriage of justice’
- US declares ISIS campaign ‘genocide’
- US designating Pakistan a ‘Country of Particular Concern’ would be ‘ineffective’
- US envoy supports Sudan’s removal from ‘sponsors of terrorism’ list
- US finally allows Iraqi nun in
- US government warned of persistent ‘ideology of hatred’ in Saudi textbooks
- US imposes sanctions on Myanmar for ‘widespread human rights abuses’
- US lawmakers call for continued sanctions against Sudan as Bashir plans Russia visit
- US missionary in Russia fights for right to pray
- US must elevate status of religious freedom
- US nominates new religious freedom ambassador
- US pastor released from Iran jail
- US policy ‘sets back’ persecuted Christians’ cause
- US religious freedom report shows ‘no progress’ in Myanmar
- US Senate condemns IS sexual violence
- US State Department adds Pakistan to religious-freedom watch list
- US to fast-track $35m aid to Iraqi Christians and Yazidis
- US to Turkey: Release pastor Brunson or ‘face the consequences’
- USCIRF says Myanmar must ‘control’ its military
- USCIRF wants 6 more countries on US Govt’s religious-freedom watch list
- Uzbek Christian fined, but he doesn’t know why
- Uzbek Christians report continued state pressure, despite recent UN criticism
- Uzbek pastor might face criminal charges after police repeat raids on his home
- Uzbek police accused of targeting Christian women with sexual violence
- Uzbek Protestants detained and their religious materials confiscated despite being legal
- Uzbek woman fined over Bible
- Uzbekistan ‘violates religious freedom through coercion and sexual violence’
- Uzbekistan clamps down on Baptists over Bible ownership
- Uzbekistan President vows to reform ‘mad dog’ secret police
- Uzbekistan says religious freedom ‘progressing’, despite new restrictions
- Uzbekistan: Five Baptists fined on non-specific charges
- Vatican rejects M.E without Christians
- Vatican to hold peace talks
- Vatican: Peace talks must consider Christian needs
- Verdict postponed on Malatya murders
- Vicar of Baghdad leaves Baghdad
- Video: Aleppo youth fill church on World Youth Day
- Video: Christians begin Qaraqosh clean-up
- Vietnam arrests four more human rights activists
- Vietnam Catholic blogger ‘will continue his struggle’ after expulsion to France
- Vietnam Christian woman’s ‘intolerable’ harassment
- Vietnam frees Catholic blogger but upholds 20-year sentence for another activist
- Vietnam government accused of stealing monks’ land
- Vietnam harasses ‘released’ Christian lawyer
- Vietnam issues harsh sentence to another Catholic blogger
- Vietnam jails Christian rights defender for 15 years
- Vietnam pastor freed early from prison in return for exile to US
- Vietnam releases Christian activists
- Vietnam Religion Law causes concerns
- Vietnam still violates religious freedom
- Vietnam told to release prisoners of conscience
- Vietnam town bans Catholic Mass under new religion law
- Vietnam uses ‘national security’ to detain rights activists, UN told
- Vietnam: 2017 was ‘worst year’ for dissidents
- Vietnam: appeal for lawyers’ release
- Vietnam: Catholic activist sent back to prison in new crackdown
- Vietnam: Catholic activist’s harsh sentence condemned by US
- Vietnam: Catholic blogger loses appeal against 10-year sentence for ‘anti-state reports’
- Vietnam: Catholic blogger’s 9-year prison sentence upheld
- Vietnam: Church told to take down Christmas nativity scene
- Vietnam’s bishops say new religion law ‘not considered a human right’
- Vietnam’s ‘country of concern’ recommendation welcomed
- Vietnamese Christian rights defender exiled to Germany after release
- Vietnamese government urged to cease persecution of religious minorities ahead of UN review
- Vietnamese pastor beaten and left naked on road
- Village rumour results in ‘attack on Copts’
- Violence in Southern Kaduna fuelled by government support for Fulanis, says Bishop
- Violence locks down Nigerian town
- Visiting a monastery in ISIS territory
- Warnings of draining the Middle East of Christians
- We meant what we said
- Welby concerned by Pakistan’s blasphemy laws
- West ‘failing to convert words of concern into action’ against ultra-nationalism
- West doesn’t understand terrorist ideology
- What Islamic State really wants
- What it takes
- Who owns the church? Sudan court puts elders on trial for trespass and theft
- Why do we not save Christians?
- Why Syrian and Iraqi Christians eye different futures
- Wife of missing Malaysian pastor Raymond Koh writes to PM
- Women and children ‘indoctrinated’ in Tanzania
- Women in Boko Haram fighting, not just cooking
- Women in Tunisia now free to marry spouse of choice
- Words nice; action better
- World Council of Churches condemns persecution of other religions
- Worldwide blasphemy cases highlighted in USCIRF report
- WSJ: Religious freedom ‘integral’
- Year since Libya, Christians move closer to unity
- Yemen church set on fire
- Youhanabad dead remembered as Pakistan Senate wants terrorism charges dropped
- Young Ethiopian Christians ‘bribed’ to convert to Islam, says charity
- Young Kyrgyz Christian hospitalised, while his attackers go free
- Young refugees ‘urgently need access to education’
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