christian persecution

Suspected Fulani herdsmen in southwestern Nigeria last week kidnapped Christian workers taking a bus to a wedding, while another group of Christians was kidnapped en route to a funeral in the same state.

 Suspected Fulani herdsmen and other terrorists in the past month killed at least 30 Christians in Plateau state, Nigeria and 10 in Kaduna state, where they also demanded payment for a corpse after collecting ransom for the Christian they kidnapped and killed.

According to a pastor, a group of Muslim extremists in eastern Uganda seriously wounded a him and his wife in an attack on a meeting at their church on Nov. 18.

Authorities in Sudan on Nov. 21 arrested and jailed a church leader on charges of “witchcraft” for leading a prayer meeting for his ailing mother, sources said.

Christian persecution is escalating in at least 18 countries, according to a new report from Aid to the Church in Need.

Islamic jihadist groups in Nigeria have killed at least 4,000 Christians and abducted more than 2,300 other Christians so far in 2022, according to a recently released report from the International Society for Civil Liberties and Rule of Law.

The Burmese army bombed a Baptist seminary in Myanmar last Thursday, injuring at least four men in their dormitory.

A Christian pastor in northern India who drives a taxi for a living was brutally stabbed after he shared the gospel with a Sikh man.

A Christian mother and her family in northern India have suffered assaults and threats since she and others were arrested from her son’s birthday party on false accusations of fraudulent conversion, her husband said.

Two Christians imprisoned in Iran for their church leadership roles were released a few days after a fire broke out in Tehran’s Evin Prison on Oct. 15, but rights advocates were mystified about why they were freed.