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The Kaduna State chapter of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) announced the release of 61 Christians abducted from Emmanuel Baptist Church, Kakau Daji in the Chikun Local Government Area of the state on 3 December.
Pastor John Joseph Hayab, chairman of...
The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has issued a statement strongly protesting at the US government’s decision not to list Nigeria as a “Country of Particular Concern” (CPC) on freedom of religion.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken did not...
The Australian House of Representatives has passed a motion urging the federal government to officially recognise the Armenian Genocide.
The motion calls upon the government to recognise “the genocide committed by the Ottoman Empire between 1915 and 1923 of Armenians, Assyrians, Greeks...
Churches in Zamfara State, northern Nigeria, have been threatened with attack unless they close down and stop meeting for worship.
The threat, believed to come from Islamist militants, was made in a letter sent to Nigerian police and security services.
“Let’s pray...
Twelve people have been killed in two separate attacks on the Irigwe community in Plateau State, Nigeria.
Gunmen suspected to be Fulani militants shot dead ten people and burned down 30 houses in a raid on Te’egbe village, Bassa Local Government Area...
A church was burned down following further shelling by the Tatmadaw (Myanmar military) on the already deserted town of Thantlang in Christian-majority Chin State on 25 November.
Thantlang Centenary Baptist Church was among at least 49 buildings destroyed by fires caused by...
The leadership of the Armenian Apostolic Church has raised concerns regarding the recent outbreak of hostilities between Armenian and Azerbaijani forces.
In a statement church leaders said that they were “deeply concerned about the hostilities unleashed by Azerbaijan on the eastern border...
A Nigerian Christian journalist faces prolonged imprisonment following his reporting of attacks against mainly Christian communities in Nigeria’s Middle Belt and critical assessment of the government’s response.
Luka Binniyat, who writes for the Epoch Times, was arrested on 4 November, arraigned at...
Two 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 released a statement on Sunday 21 November announcing that the pair were...
The mother of a 12-year-old Christian girl, abducted in Punjab, Pakistan, has raised fears that her daughter will be forced to marry her captor and convert to Islam.
Meerab Abbas was abducted on 2 November in the Punjabi city of Sahiwal,...
