According to Christian Solidarity Worldwide, an evangelical Cuban pastor who has been imprisoned since 2021 for participating in peaceful protests was released.
An Islamist gang trapped more than 450 people in false blasphemy charges in recent years in Pakistan, including five who were tortured death in custody, according to human rights lawyers.
Persecution against Christians continues to increase around the globe. The number of believers facing high levels of persecution and discrimination for their faith rose to more than 380 million, Open Doors reported.
Christians and other religious minorities in Syria continue to wonder about their long-term future after the fall of the Assad regime, said Charles Costa, president of the Convention of Evangelical Baptist Churches in Lebanon.
Baptist conventions, councils and associations representing thousands of churches were among the groups who urged Indian President Draupadi Murmu and Prime Minister Narendra Modi to act to stop violent mobs who have targeted Christians…
More than 400 Christian leaders in India ended 2024 with a strongly-worded appeal to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to put an end to a surge in violence against Christians that was especially heightened during the Christmas season.
An airstrike on a Baptist church in Sudan less than a week before Christmas killed at least 11 people, including eight children, an organization focused on international religious freedom reported.
Three Christians were shot and wounded in a Christmas Day gun attack on the home of a pastor and televangelist in Lahore, Pakistan, sources said.
Fulani herdsmen attacked a cluster of five predominantly Christian villages in Benue state on Wednesday (Dec. 25), massacring 33 people on Christmas Day, sources said.
Muslims in Indonesia on Dec. 8 prevented Christians from holding a Christmas service at a pastor’s home, sources said.
