Pakistan: Muslim mob attack and damage Shekhupura church, desecrating cross
On Saturday, May 9, a mob of Muslim men attacked and damaged a church in Hakeempura, located in Pakistan’s Shekhupura district. As a result of the attack, the church’s wall and main gate were damaged and a cross More...
Pakistan Christians John Masih, Shamshad Bibi kept from son by Islamic clerics
Pakistani Christian parents have been refused the return of their son because he converted to Islam, and therefore cannot live with them. According to reports John Masih and his wife Shamshad Bibi of Mian Channu, More...
Nigerian Boko Haram Islamic terrorists release Catholic priest Father David Echioda
Father David Echioda has been freed from his kidnappers in Otukpo, Nigeria on March 1. He was abducted at gunpoint by Boko Haram, a militant terrorist group aimed at making Nigeria a Muslim state. Christianity is More...
al-Shabaab increase terrorist attacks in Kenya, killing more than 100 people
Just over one month ago, al-Shabaab attacked a bus in Northern Kenya. During the attack, they removed the passengers and executed 11 that they found who were Christians. Then two weeks later, they attacked a bus More...
Pakistan: Christian teen, Huma, kidnapped in Karachi, police refuse to investigate Abdul Jabar
On October 10, 2019, Huma, a 14-year-old Christian girl, was reportedly kidnapped by armed men. Since then, Huma’s family has fought tirelessly to bring Huma home and highlight the plight of Christian women and More...
Egypt cracks down on free speech, raids news site Mada Masr over Christian persecution coverage
Egyptian authorities raided one of the last independent news sites in the country, Mada Masr, after having arrested one of their editors the day prior. The news site has received international awards for its independent More...
Catholic Priest Arinze Madu abducted in Nigeria, released after church pays ransom
On October 28, Father Arinze Madu, was abducted by gunmen while leaving the Queen of Apostles Seminary where he is the vice rector. The abduction of Father Madu is just one of many that have taken place across Nigeria More...
Pakistan Christian Amir Masih escapes blasphemy charges as Imams rally violence against Christians
On Saturday, October 26, Amir Masih, a Christian sanitation worker from Yousafabad, a small town near Faisalabad, was falsely accused of blasphemy. Fortunately, after local police intervened, the blasphemy charges More...
Boko Haram kidnaps six girls, two Christian school workers
The Islamic extremists in Nigeria, Boko Haram, have terrorized the region for years and again has kidnapped little girls. From the local report: Boko Haram logo photo/Arnold Platon via wikimedia commons A day before More...
Iran moves to ban education for non-Muslims as ‘propaganda act’
Iran’s new education minister Mohsen Haji Mirzaei has used the launch of a new country-wide project as an opportunity to strike out against Iran’s religious minorities, saying Wednesday that students of “other More...
Philippines Priest Chito Soganub recounts Muslim kidnapping, how he prayer
Islamist militants took over the city of Marawi in the south of the Philippines in May 2017, with the goal to set up a caliphate. Along the way, they kidnapped citizens and use them as human shield or servants. More...
Nautan Lal accused of blasphemy against Muhammad, Pakistan riots Sindh cause fear among Christians
Riots broke out in Pakistan’s Sindh province after a Hindu principal was accused of committing blasphemy against Islam. Both the teacher and rioters have been arrested by local police. On Saturday, September 14, More...
Pakistani Christians Javaid Masih and Suleman Masih murdered by Muslims in Lahore
Two Pakistani Christian brothers, Javaid Masih and Suleman Masih, were killed by three extremist Muslims in Lahore on August 21st. The names of attackers are Abdul Majeed, Muhammad Amjad, and Muhammad Naveed. Bashiran More...
Iranian Christians Fatemeh Bakhteri and Saheb Fadaie jailed for ‘spreading progaganda’
As of a few short days ago, the second of two Iranian Christians was officially imprisoned by a religiously-biased national judiciary for her faith in Christ Jesus. In these past few years, the Christian community More...
Egypt reinstates President Sisi despite intolerance, hostility towards non-Muslims
Egypt’s President Sisi has reinstated a known Salafist extremist leader, allowing him to deliver sermons at an Alexandria mosque despite heavy opposition because of his reputation for intolerance. Opponents have More...
Indonesia Muslim scholar Abdul Somad says Christian cross is ‘an element of the devil’
A Muslim preacher in Indonesia, has sparked religious controversy since a video of him calling the Christian cross “an element of the devil” during a sermon went viral on social media. The insulting remarks More...
Pastor Jeremiah Omolara murdered in Nigeria, militants kidnapped his wife and son
On Sunday evening, Pastor Jeremiah Omolara of Living Faith Church was attacked while driving with his wife and son in Kaduna state. According to the report given by the Punchng.com, gunmen ambushed the family as More...
Pakistan denies Peter Jacob’s claim that 70 killed over blasphemy charges
In an interview with the Catholic News Service (CNS), Peter Jacob, the Executive Director of the Center for Social Justice in Pakistan, claimed that 70 people have been killed as a result of blasphemy accusations More...
Christian girl Suneha Sajid raped by Muslim employer, then accused of theft, her whole family attacked
Suneha Sajid, a 14-year-old Christian girl, was falsely accused of stealing gold worth about 1,500,000 PKR ($9,312.00 USD) by her Muslim employer in Shahdara, Lahore on July 8, 2019. photo Applysense Shamim, Suneha’s More...
Iran Christian woman Fatemeh Mohammadi assaulted for how she wore her headscarf
A 19-year-old Christian woman was arrested yesterday after going to a police station to file a complaint. Fatemeh Mohammadi was assaulted by a woman dressed in a chador, a long black robe worn by conservative Muslim More...
