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Scores of buildings and properties stolen in Iraq from Christians and members of another minority group have been restored and given back to their rightful owners. More than 120 houses, factories, shops and parcels of land expropriated by force or deception by...
Villagers drove a Christian family of twelve from their home in southern Laos in anger at the family’s practice of a “foreign” religion. On 9 February the family home in Dong Savanh village, Savannakhet province, was burned down in the attack. Tensions were...
Military leader Paul-Henri Damiba was sworn in as President of Burkina Faso on 16 February, pledging to tackle the Islamist insurgency that has claimed the lives of thousands of civilians and forced more than 1.4 million to flee their homes. The lieutenant...
The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) marked the fourth anniversary of Leah Sharibu’s abduction at the hands of the Islamist militants on 19 February by renewing calls for her freedom. She is one of thousands of Nigerian...
Baroness Cox has shared her “deep concern” about the threat to Armenian churches from Azerbaijani forces in Nagorno-Karabakh. In an open letter, Baroness Cox – a patron of Barnabas Fund – points to the intention of Azerbaijan to remove symbols of Armenian...
Police in Pakistan have registered a murder case against between 150 and 200 Muslims following the death of Christian shopkeeper Pervez Masih on 14 February in Lahore. The incident happened in the city’s LDA Quarter, Walton Road, after a group...
A group of Iranian Christian converts acquitted of propaganda charges in November 2021 are among those being forced to attend Islamic classes. Intelligence agents of Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) telephoned an unconfirmed number of Christians late on the evening of...
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has appointed a Christian, Judge Bolis Fahmy Eskandar, as President of the country’s Supreme Constitutional Court (SCC). Judge Eskandar, 65, is the first ever Christian to be appointed to the position.  Eskandar has previously served as one...
Soldiers from the Myanmar military are suspected of carrying out the torture and murder of six civilians, including four teenage boys, in a predominantly Christian area of Kayah State. The bodies were discovered dumped in a sewage pit in Yay-yo village,...
Nigerian church minister Joseph Danjuma Shekari has been freed by gunmen almost 24 hours after he was kidnapped from his home in Kaduna State on Sunday 6 February. “With hearts filled with joy, we raise our voices in a symphony of praises as we...