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A Pakistani Muslim man has been arrested after desecrating a cross on top of a church building in Lahore. Muhammad Bilal climbed the roof of One in Christ Church in Green Town, a Muslim-majority district of Lahore at 10am on 16 March. He...
More than 40 residents of a Christian village in Kaduna State in Nigeria’s Middle Belt have been abducted in a raid by suspected Fulani militants. Gunmen invaded the community of Agunu Dutse in Kachia Local Government Area in the early...
Two people were killed and a church building set on fire in a Tatmadaw (Myanmar military) raid on Chaung Yoe, a Christian village in Sagaing Region. The two villagers, a 55-year-old man and his son, were shot dead as they tried to...
Thousands of civilians displaced by conflict in Myanmar are at risk of starvation because of roadblocks enforced by the Myanmar military (also known as the Tatmadaw). A Kayah aid group estimated that more than 10,000 people sheltering from Tatmadaw attacks in jungle...
Three children in the same family were killed by an artillery shell in the village of Le Htwel, Kayah State, on the afternoon of 8 March. The siblings, brothers aged 7 and 10 and their 12-year-old sister, died instantly in the attack...
Nigerian Christian Sheriff Yongo, 25, was ambushed and murdered by suspected Fulani militants as he walked home at night from a church convention in Adamawa State. Sheriff’s two companions, Gambo Dong and Benedict Paul, managed to escape the attack on 5 March...
Gunmen stormed a church in Kaduna State, Nigeria in the early hours of 8 March and shot dead at least one security guard before kidnapping the church minister Joseph Aketeh. A woman and her two children were also abducted in the attack...
Three Christians have been killed in an attack by Islamist militants on the village of Kautikari in Chibok Local Government Area (LGA) of Borno State, northern Nigeria. Gunmen from the Islamic State West Africa Province invaded the predominantly Christian area...
An Iranian Christian convert serving a ten-year prison sentence has been denied his request for a retrial. Naser Navard Goltapeh, 60 years old, has served more than four years of his sentence for “acting against national security with the intention to overthrow...
Pakistan’s Council of Islamic Ideology has described violence against those accused of “blasphemy” as being “contrary to Islamic principles”. The statement comes in response to two recent high-profile cases of mob violence, in which two “blasphemy” suspects were killed.  In December 2021...