Even as roughly 380 million believers face persecution every year, Christianity continues to grow — even in the most hostile nations where faithfulness commonly means imprisonment, torture or death, according to a new report.
A new report suggests Nigerian Christians are suffering disproportionately compared to Muslim victims in targeted killings and massacres spearheaded by Nigeria’s Islamic terror groups.
Pastor Ezra Jin Mingri, leader of one of China’s largest underground churches, has been released from detention and reunited with his family in the United States.
Police in eastern India have opened a criminal investigation into the disappearance of an official report on the killing of about 100 Christians and the destruction of hundreds of church buildings in 2008.
Fulani herdsmen on Tuesday (June 16) killed five Christians in a mining site Plateau state, central Nigeria, sources said.
What happened: India’s recently tabled amendment to its FCRA laws governing foreign donations to charities marked the most pressing threat to Christian ministries — and other non-profits — in recent years. It was also far from the only means by which the Hindu-first government has sought to repress religious minorities.
Following the murder of three Kuki-Thadou Christian church leaders in Manipur State, India, Christian Solidarity Worldwide reported a series of retaliatory abductions and a hostage crisis involving civilians in Kuki and Naga communities.
Christians in China continue to feel the pressure from the communist government as it reportedly tightens control. But the church continues to grow.
At least three Kuki Baptist church leaders were killed and several others injured in Manipur on Wednesday (May 13) when armed groups ambushed their vehicles.
A district judge in Northern Ireland has convicted an elderly pastor of breaking the country’s abortion buffer zone laws by preaching a sermon on John 3:16 on a public sidewalk across from a hospital.
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