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Myanmar’s military have carried out a series of airstrikes on two villages in Christian-majority Chin State, killing two civilians and injuring several others.
During the bombing of Tsun Taung and Chat in Mindat township on 2 July, the military, known as the...
A mob of Muslim extremists attacked a church and the homes of Christians in Luxor, Egypt on 23 June, after the church was granted an official licence.
The church in al-Halla village, which had been operating without a licence since 2003, was...
Two church ministers have been killed in Nigeria in separate attacks only 24 hours apart.
Vitus Borogo, 50, was killed as he worked on his farm in Kujama, Kaduna State on 25 June, and Christopher Odia, 41, died after being...
A task force is to be set up in Pakistan to oversee the implementation of the rights of minorities, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif announced on 15 June.
The move follows a resolution on the matter passed by the National Assembly on...
A Christian family in Vietnam’s Nghe An province have been forced from their home village for refusing to re-convert to a local animist religion.
The family of 13 people have suffered persecution at the hands of local authorities, who on 4 June...
Two women, who were among hundreds of schoolgirls abducted by Boko Haram from the Nigerian town of Chibok eight years ago, have been found.
Hauwa Joseph was discovered among a group of other civilians on 12 June by government troops around...
A new draft of Tunisia’s constitution does not name Islam as the North African country’s state religion.
Sadaq Belaid, a legal expert appointed by Tunisian President Kais Saied in May 2022 to oversee the drafting process, said that the aim of the...
Three worshippers were killed and a number kidnapped when two churches were attacked in the Kajuru Local Government Area (LGA) of Kaduna State, Nigeria on Sunday 19 June.
Large numbers of gunmen riding on motorcycles opened fire indiscriminately as they approached the...
At least 260 were killed in an attack on Gimbi district, western Oromia, Ethiopia, on 18 June.
The victims were members of the Amhara ethnic group, most of whom are Christians and who are a minority within Oromia.
The identity of the attackers...
Islamist militants raided a Christian village in Memba, Nampula province, northern Mozambique on 17 June, beheading one resident.
The raid by terrorists linked to Islamic State (IS – also known as ISIS, ISIL, Daesh) is the first in recent years in Nampula province.
IS...
