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The Three-Self Patriotic Movement (TSPM), the official Protestant church of China, has pledged to follow Chinese Communist Party (CCP) directives on the management of religions, including supervision of churches and their finances.
The TSPM was one of seven state-authorised religious groups to...
Gunmen abducted an assistant pastor and a Sunday school teacher in a raid on a church service in Ogun State, south-western Nigeria.
Assistant pastor Oluwaseun Ajose and Dagunro Ayobami were taken from the church building in Wasimi, a rural area of Ewekoro...
The committee that is overseeing the return of buildings and properties stolen in Iraq from Christians and members of another minority group has been expanded.
Three new members have been appointed to the Committee for the Restitution of Christian and Sabean...
Suspected Fulani extremists killed 37 people in an attack on a Christian-majority area of Benue State, Nigeria, on Sunday 12 June.
The attackers also destroyed dozens of homes, forcing more than 500 people to flee from the villages of Igama and Efeche...
Attacks by suspected Fulani militants on a Christian community in Kaduna State, Nigeria, have left 32 dead.
The attacks were carried out on Sunday 5 June between 12 noon and 6pm on the villages of Ungwan Gamu, Dogon Noma, Ungwan...
The Lahore High Court has upheld the death sentence of two brothers, both Christians, for alleged “blasphemy”.
Qasir and Amoon Ayub were convicted of “blasphemy” and sentenced to death by a lower court in Jhelum, northern Punjab, in December 2018.
Their appeal was heard by...
A bishop from the Church of Nigeria and three evangelists have been kidnapped by separate gangs in Nigeria.
The Bishop of Jebba Diocese, Kwara State, the Rt Rev Oluwaseun Aderogba, was abducted with his wife and driver by gunmen on...
A Muslim man has been charged with the murder of 30-year-old Egyptian Christian Kyrillos Megally, who died in hospital on 7 June, three days after being attacked with a cleaver.
Abdullah Hosni, who has confessed to the killing in the village...
An Assyrian Christian family were attacked in a village in Mardin province, south-eastern Turkey, shortly after a church service on Sunday 5 June.
The service in Mor Gevargis Church, Brahîmîye village, was the first held in the building in almost 100...
Hundreds of homes in a historic Christian village in the Sagaing Region of Myanmar have been burned down in a renewed attack by the military (Tatmadaw).
More than two thirds of the estimated 500 homes in Chan Thar were destroyed on 7...
