A Palestinian man is asking Pope Francis to intercede with the Israeli government to release his son, a humanitarian worker with Christian aid organization World Vision, who has been in jail for more than five years on what the father maintains are manufactured charges.
A Christian working in a Pakistani hospital was forced to abandon his job after a group of Muslim doctors threatened his life.
Recently, China announced a revision to its infamous one-child policy, instituted by Mao’s successor. Married couples can now apply to have up to three children, an increase from the more recent limit of two. On the surface, the policy change might appear to be a significant improvement on Mao’s 1957 statement — at least in terms of human dignity. In fact, it is not. Both these stories reflect what happens when a society rejects the core Christian idea of the image of God.
A Pakistani court has upheld the life sentence of a Christian convicted of blasphemy despite the prosecution's alleged manipulation of evidence and failure to establish his involvement.
Last month, tribal animists reportedly forced more than 50 Christians from three villages to flee their homes and take shelter in the jungles of eastern India.
According to sources, armed Fulani herdsmen killed a Christian doctor on June 17 in Niger state, Nigeria following attacks that killed 17 Christians in the Plateau state.
According to sources, Vietnamese authorities sent a recently formed house-church alliance a letter noting that security authorities were investigating the Revival Ekklesia Mission (REM) for “violating the law against ‘spreading dangerous infectious diseases in humans.’”
Last month a court in Pakistan handed Shahid Gill’s 13-year-old daughter into the custody of a 30-year-old Muslim man named Saddam Hayat. Hayat and six others allegedly took Nayab from her home, converted her to Islam and forced her to marry Hayat.
On Sunday, which was World Refugee Day, a Christian woman who escaped persecution in Pakistan with her family opened up about their harrowing journey to freedom.
A radical Muslim has confessed to killing a 70-year-old pastor in Uganda.
