christian persecution

On Monday night, suspected Islamic extremists kidnapped 36 people from a predominantly Christian village outside the city of Kaduna, in northern Nigeria.

In the central Vietnam province, officials vying with each other to create “Christian-free zones” operate “with no conscience or humanity,” as if they were in a different country than the one whose religious freedom measures they are violating, Christian leaders say.

According to sources, a Christian in eastern Uganda died on July 10 from head injuries sustained in an attack by Muslim extremists the previous week.

According to sources, the body of one of two Catholic priests kidnapped on Friday, July 15, in Kaduna state, Nigeria, was recovered Tuesday morning.

According to sources, Gunmen in northeast Nigeria shot a pastor and killed his sons in one attack and killed a Christian engineering instructor in another this month.

A “radical Muslim” man reportedly tried to murder a Coptic Christian woman in Egypt last month.

A Christian bicycle mechanic in Lahore, Pakistan, was reportedly sentenced to death last week on baseless charges of blasphemy.

According to local reports, Police in Darfur Region, Sudan have arrested four Christians under a law against apostasy that was annulled two years ago.

Three men reviling a convert to Christianity for leading Muslims to Christ in eastern Uganda killed him on Sunday (July 3), a witness said.

When Jesus warned his disciples about the persecution coming their way, he told them to “be wise as serpents and innocent as doves” (Matthew 10:16). Doing so well requires the practical awareness to discern the real threats from the false and the Christ-centered focus to make sure we don’t respond in a way that would justify them. That’s hard to do, which is why Jesus followed that command with the assurance that we won’t have to do it alone (Matthew 10:20).