Barnabas Aid
A pastor in the Macomia district of Cabo Delgado, northern Mozambique, was abducted and decapitated by Islamist extremists on 15 December.
The Islamists then ordered the pastor’s widow to carry the head in a sack to a district police station and report...
The remaining twelve members of a group of 17 Christian missionaries and children abducted by an armed gang in Haiti have escaped from their captors.
At a press conference on 20 December the captives – workers from the US-based Christian Aid...
A district authority in Punjab, Pakistan has banned the use of a derogatory word for sanitation workers, the majority of whom are Christian.
Malik Tahir Awan, vice-chairman of the Municipal Committee (MC) for Attock district, issued a notification on 10 December stating,...
A Christian pre-wedding celebration on 10 December was gatecrashed by a group of Muslims in Farooqabad, near Faisalabad in Punjab, Pakistan.
The mob proceeded to abuse the women present, steal money and jewellery and set the house on fire.
The event, hosted by...
Armed officers from Russia’s Federal Security Service disrupted a Christian conference in the town of Ramenskoye, near Moscow, on 2 December, confining attendees in the conference building for around ten hours.
Several dozen officers from the Centre for Combating Extremism...
Fifteen Christians abducted during Sunday worship at a church in Kaduna State, Nigeria, on 31 October have been freed by their captors.
“Glory be to God,” said Dr Israel Adelani Akanji, President of the Nigerian Baptist Convention, in a post on...
A church was among 19 buildings burned down in shelling by the Myanmar military (also known as the Tatmadaw) in an already deserted town in Chin State on 4 December.
A United Pentecostal church was set alight in the attack along with...
Three further members of a group of 17 Christian missionaries and children abducted by an armed gang in Haiti on 16 October have been set free by their captors.
US-based Christian Aid Ministries issued a statement on 6 December announcing that the...
The head boy of Bethel Baptist High School, freed by kidnappers on health grounds after more than 150 days in captivity in the Nigerian bush, has been praised for his leadership and bravery.
The 17-year-old had refused to join students released previously...
Church leaders in Pakistan have condemned the killing in Sialkot, Punjab of a Sri Lankan factory manager who was accused of “blasphemy”.
On 3 December, Priyantha Kumara – a Buddhist – allegedly took down a poster that included the name of...
