1+ day, 13+ hour ago   (705+ words) A devastating wave is crashing over South Asia, wreaking havoc on those who choose to follow a faith other than the majority. It is a wave of anti-Christian sentiment. So-called “Freedom of Religion” and “Anti-Blasphemy” laws fuel it, generating a…...

6+ day, 23+ hour ago   (419+ words) A 52-year-old Christian in eastern Uganda was recovering from injuries after his Muslim sons attacked him for leaving Islam, sources said. In Nakalama village, Iganga Town Council, Kibirige Abumusa returned home on Aug. 9 after an extended stay in Jinja City,…...

1+ week, 3+ hour ago   (980+ words) Christian rights activists have welcomed a resolution adopted by the Punjab Provincial Assembly calling for equal opportunities for prisoners from religious minorities to receive religious education, take examinations and qualify for sentence remission. The resolution, moved by treasury member Raheela…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (633+ words) A Muslim lawmaker in Pakistan’s Punjab Provincial Assembly on Tuesday (Sept. 1) introduced legislation seeking to establish permanent legal protections for sanitation workers, a workforce that includes a large proportion of Christians. The Punjab Waste and Sanitation Workers (Dignity, Safety, Security…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (1058+ words) Christian rights advocates on Saturday (Aug. 29) condemned a Pakistani court’s decision to give custody of a 13-year-old Christian girl to a Muslim accused of abducting, forcibly converting and marrying her. Warning that the ruling could expose Amber Nadeem to further…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (379+ words) A Finnish member of parliament barred from entering the U.K. learned her travel ban had been lifted only 45 minutes before she was due on stage at a Northern Ireland event. The Northern Ireland Assembly and Speaker Edwin Poots invited Päivi Räsänen…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (792+ words) Church leaders and Christians in Sudan's Nuba Mountains are facing a growing wave of killings, abductions and attacks as fighting between rival armed factions intensifies in the country's South Kordofan state. At least two church leaders have been killed in…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (522+ words) Muslim extremists in Somalia on Saturday (Aug. 15) beat a mother of eight children unconscious after learning she had converted from Islam to Christianity, sources said. A former member of an underground Christian fellowship who returned to Islam, Fatuma Osman, directed…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (421+ words) Christian churches in Nicaragua held a commemorative event marking the 457th anniversary of the Bear Bible (Biblia del Oso), considered the first complete Bible printed in Spanish, according to Bendición News. The opening ceremony took place at the Plaza de la…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (976+ words) A Nigerian Federal High Court has ruled that Kano State’s Islamic religious police cannot arrest a Christian woman because she converted from Islam or refused a forced marriage, in a case that has raised fresh questions about the limits of…...