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Local officials have begun legal proceedings against church leaders in the province of Tizi Ouzou, Algeria with the aim of closing the church.
On 2 February the provincial governor filed the case against the pastor of the church in Ait Atteli...
Eleven people were killed when gunmen attacked a community in Zangon Kataf Local Government Area (LGA) of Christian-majority southern Kaduna State, Nigeria on Sunday 30 January.
More than 30 houses were razed during the early morning assault on Zaman Dabo village in...
A human rights body has launched a campaign to raise awareness of discriminatory advertisements for the recruitment of sanitary workers in Pakistan.
The National Commission for Human Rights (NCHR) campaign, initiated in Islamabad on 25 January, criticises advertisements for sanitation workers and...
Boko Haram militants abducted at least 24 Christians – 22 women and girls along with two men – and killed four men in three separate attacks in Chibok Local Government Area (LGA), Borno State, Nigeria.
The Islamist extremists attacked the...
A group of Iranian Christians previously imprisoned for their faith have released a statement protesting against the denial of the right to education to Farsi-speaking Christians in Iran.
The statement was written in Farsi (Persian), the national language of Iran, and published...
“I praise God and am so proud that I am the daughter of a martyr and the wife of a martyr too.” – daughter of William Siraj and widow of another martyr
“I praise and thank God that I belong...
Two Christian converts were released from prison on 20 January at the conclusion of their one-year prison sentences for membership of a house church, but one of them now faces two years’ internal exile.
Sasan Khosravi, 36, and Habib Heydari, 40, were...
Myanmar Army troops massacred at least ten civilians whom they had earlier arrested, according to residents of Matupi township, Chin State.
Eleven people were detained by the military (known as the Tatmadaw) on 6 and 7 January near Kihlun and Longhtaw...
Eighteen people, including a baby, were killed when Fulani militants attacked the predominantly Christian Irigwe village of Ancha in Plateau State, Nigeria in the early hours of 12 January.
The two-hour onslaught on the community in the Bassa Local Government...
A seven-year-old girl, her 18-year-old sister and a man in his 50s were killed during the aerial bombing of a camp for internally displaced persons (IDPs) by Myanmar military forces on 17 January.
An eyewitness stated that at least two helicopter gunships...
