Nigeria’s president responded to a surge in violence and abductions by declaring a nationwide security emergency, ordering the massive recruitment and deployment of law enforcement officers and armed forces personnel.
In a landmark move to protect children, especially girls, from forced marriages, a provincial assembly in Pakistan on Nov. 14 passed the Child Marriage Prohibition Bill.
Baptists in Africa called for “all parties concerned” about religious freedom and human rights in Nigeria to “embrace peace for the good of all.”
Russian courts have banned at least 10 unregistered Baptist congregations from meeting without state permission, a Norway-based human rights organization reported.
Seven Christians, including a 12-year-old boy, were mourned on Saturday (Nov. 8) after they were killed in an attack in Kaduna State, Nigeria, the same day Islamic extremists burned homes and a church building in Borno State.
The White House and the president announced on social media the United States is designating Nigeria a Country of Particular Concern due to the “mass slaughter” of Christians at the hands of “Radical Islamists.”
A 49-year-old blind Christian in Pakistan has been arrested and charged with blasphemy, punishable by death, after a Muslim accused him of insulting Islam’s prophet, his mother said.
A 61-year-old Iranian Christian convert, Mina Khajavi, has been freed from Tehran’s notorious Evin Prison after serving nearly two years for her involvement in a house church,
A massive crackdown on an Islamist religio-political party and a recent announcement by Pakistan’s law minister suggest authorities have resolved to make procedural changes to controversial blasphemy laws, sources said.
A job ad by a regional Religious Affairs Office in Indonesia discriminating against non-Muslims has been modified following objections, sources said.
