by Publisher | May 31, 2014 | News, Nigeria
31 May 2014 While international media sights have been justifiably fixed on 276 girls kidnapped from Chibok, Borno state, Islamic extremists last week killed Christians in the state’s Gwoza area nearly unnoticed, as they have for more than two years. On Borno state’s...
by Publisher | May 30, 2014 | Iran, News
30 May 2014 Iran’s secret police and Revolutionary Guard are subjecting Christians to a continuing wave of arrests, and increased torture and brutal beatings, in an effort to crush the house-church movement, activists said. Human rights activists confirmed that there...
by Publisher | May 29, 2014 | News, Nigeria
29 May 2014 Over 70 people have died this week in a series of attacks by members of the Islamist terror group Boko Haram on towns and villages in Borno and Yobe States of north eastern Nigeria. The renewed attacks come amidst reports on 28 May that five more of the...
by Publisher | May 29, 2014 | Bhutan, News
29 May 2014 Prosecutors in this tiny Buddhist kingdom in the Himalayas are charging one of two pastors arrested in March with illegally collecting funds and have dropped charges against both of lacking permission to screen a film, sources said. The Office of the...
by Publisher | May 27, 2014 | News, Sudan
27 May 2014 As Meriam Yahia Ibrahim, sentenced to death for leaving Islam, gave birth early this morning in prison, another Christian woman in Sudan has been jailed for “apostasy,” sources said. Ibrahim’s second child was born at about 3:30 a.m. in the Health Center...
by Publisher | May 24, 2014 | Analysis, Sudan
24 May 2014 The sentence of 100 lashes and death by hanging that a Sudanese judge handed to Meriam Ibrahim is consistent with Islamic law, contrary to Islamic leaders and others who cite her case as an anomaly. In a case that has drawn international condemnation since...
by Publisher | May 23, 2014 | News, Somalia
23 May 2014 Underground Christians in Somalia are struggling to recover from the loss of a prominent church leader gunned down in March. As in many cases of the mounting number of murders of secret Christians in Somalia, Islamic extremists with the Al Shabaab rebel...
by Publisher | May 23, 2014 | Analysis, Nigeria
23 May 2014 We make a grave mistake if we ignore the religious dimension to Boko Haram’s political agenda, says Release International – after yesterday’s bomb attacks on the commercial centre of Jos, central Plateau state, Nigeria. Release International Chief...
by Publisher | May 22, 2014 | Kenya, News
22 May 2014 Within three weeks of putting his faith in Christ, a 26-year-old former Muslim in western Kenya was beaten in a mosque and later arrested without charges, Christian leaders said. Hassan Hussein Mohammed wouldn’t normally have admitted to being a Christian...
by Publisher | May 20, 2014 | News, Nigeria
20 May 2014 Suspected Islamic extremists set off two bombs in a mainly Christian area of the central Nigerian city of Jos today, causing massive destruction of human lives and property, sources said. Two days after a suicide bombing in northern Nigeria killed an...
by Publisher | May 19, 2014 | Egypt, News
19 May 2014 Amazing Grace – shot on a tourist camera – wins top award at Film Festival The story of persecuted Christians in Egypt has been honoured with an award by the UK Christian Film Festival. Amazing Grace, which documents a wave of attacks against Christians by...
by Publisher | May 19, 2014 | India, News
19 May 2014 Fears that extremist Hindu attacks against religious minorities could escalate. Media call to interview Kumar Swamy, National Co-ordinator All India Christian Council, in the UK on June 2 and 6. There are fears that the landslide victory for India’s...
