Around the world, many of our brothers and sisters don’t have the option of living the kind of “quiet and peaceable” lives we take for granted. Let's pray for our brothers and sisters in Nigeria and around the world who have, in recent years, experienced extreme persecution.
Four Christian men were attacked and branded with a cross by a group of hooded men in Venezuela.
On Feb. 7, armed Hindu extremists in India reportedly beat church members during a worship service and then pressured police to arrest more than 20 Christians on suspicion of forcible conversion.
On February 17, the New Life Church in Minsk, Belarus was evicted from its building by police. Authorities claimed that a church was an “unpurposeful use” for the building.
After a Christian couple visiting a young mother at her home in eastern Uganda decided to pray for her, the young monther's Muslim husband became outraged and lashed out with violence.
Local officials and other tribal animists in a village in eastern India locked council doors, tied up pastor Lakshman Oraon and beat him for more than an hour, but he kept praising God, he said.
A pastor abducted by Islamic extremist militants in northeastern Nigeria will reportedly kill on Wednesday if the terror group's ransom demands are not met.
A family in Indian was banished from their village this year after they refused to recant their Christian faith.
Earlier this month, Fulani herdsmen in northwestern Nigeria reportedly killed a church elder and abducted three other Christians.
After speaking out against the burning down of a church building in Sudan, a Sudanese Christian leader was detained and beaten.
