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It’s one of the most dangerous places in the world to be a Christian. What’s going on right now in Nigeria is “pure genocide.”

The Rohingya crisis in Myanmar, where thousands of people have fled the killing in the country, is “genocide,” said Azeem Ibrahim, a senior fellow at the Center for Global Policy.

When we think of religious persecution, the Middle East usually comes to mind. But things have also gotten nasty in Southeast Asia.

The following is an interview with Christian author Andreas Knapp. A poet, priest, and popular author in Germany, Knapp left a secure position as head of Freiburg Seminary to live and work among the poor as a member of the Little Brothers of the Gospel, a religious order inspired by Charles de Foucauld. Today he shares an apartment with three brothers in Leipzig’s largest housing project, and ministers to prisoners and refugees. His latest book, The Last Christians, recounts the stories of refugees in his neighborhood and of displaced people in camps in Kurdistan, northern Iraq. <p><p>Photo courteys: ©Thinkstock/Memedozaslan

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson underlined the nation’s commitment to protecting religious and ethnic groups targeted by the so-called Islamic State as he issued his department’s first international religious freedom report since President Trump took office.

The United States State Department legal team has removed the word “genocide”from speeches and official documents that describe the Islamic State’s actions against Christians, Yazidis and other religious minorities.

The battle for Aleppo, Syria is reportedly coming to an end, and civilians and the wounded are being transported out of the city, after days of being trapped there.

The UN must urgently put in place measures to hold to account jihadists who have committed atrocities against minorities in Iraq and Syria, because existing conventions have become “obsolete”, the author of a book documenting recent violence against them has said.

The Catholic Church in Rwanda has issued an apology on behalf of church members who were involved in the 1994 genocide.

Imagine your family’s been murdered and your country lies in ruins. Could you rebuild—and forgive? These Rwandan women did.