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A Muslim-background Christian in Indonesia was sentenced to ten years in prison after being found guilty of “blasphemy” and hate speech by a court in West Java Province.
Muhammad Kace, formerly an Islamic cleric, was accused of making disparaging remarks about Muhammad,...
At least a dozen people have been killed in an attack by Islamists on the village of Masambo in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
The attack, on Sunday 3 April, was carried out by the Islamist group Allied Democratic Forces...
Twelve people were killed as suspected Fulani Islamists invaded a cultural festival in Plateau State in Nigeria’s Middle Belt.
Gunmen attacked the Zrreci festival ground at the village of Cando Zrreci, in the Irigwe Chiefdom of Bassa Local Government Area (LGA) around...
A church minister is among 45 people abducted by bandits during a two-day raid in central Nigeria.
The unidentified gunmen began their attack on villages in Munya Local Government Area, Niger State, on 26 March.
The minister, Leo Raphael Ozigi, was on his...
Nine Egyptian Christians have been arrested after a peaceful protest against the refusal of the Egyptian authorities to grant permission to rebuild a church.
The church building in Ezbet Faragallah village, Minya governorate, Upper Egypt was damaged by fire in 2016. The...
More than 13,000 people have been killed in attacks by Fulani extremists between 2009 and 2021, according to a recent report.
The report, by Humanitarian Aid Relief Trust (HART), denied that this violence was purely about access to land, arguing, “The...
A Christian family of twelve, driven from their home in southern Laos because of their faith, are being pressurised to remove social media posts describing their ordeal.
District officials in Savannakhet province called family members to a meeting on 15 March and...
At least 50 people were killed and more than 100 abducted, including a church minister, when nine villages in Giwa Local Government Area (LGA) of northern Kaduna State, Nigeria were attacked late on 24 March and into the early hours of...
Turkey has deported 78 foreign Protestant pastors and their families since the beginning of 2019, according to a report by the Association of Protestant Churches in Turkey.
This figure includes 35 pastors in 2019, 30 in 2020, and a further 13 in...
An attack by gunmen on a Christian community in southern Kaduna State in Nigeria’s Middle Belt has left 34 people dead.
Suspected Fulani militants attacked four locations in Kagoro chiefdom, Kaura Local Government Area (LGA) on Sunday 20 March.
Samuel Aruwan, Kaduna...
