Barnabas Aid
One person was killed and several others wounded when gunmen opened fire during a Sunday morning church service on 26 September in Kaduna State, Nigeria.
The attack took place at the Evangelical Church Winning All (ECWA) congregation in Gabaciwa, Kachia Local Government...
Five Christian families in rural Laos are still waiting for new homes promised to them by government officials, months after being evicted from their villages by local leaders.
The 21 Christians from Pasing-Kang village and Pateum village in the Ta-Oey district of...
The Australian Egyptian Forum Council has become the latest organisation to urge the Australian government to recognise the Armenian Genocide.
The council, which represents the interests of the Australian-Egyptian community in New South Wales, said that “as a nation that upholds the...
Fifteen Christians have been re-arrested in Eritrea and taken to the Mai Serwa maximum security prison in the capital Asmara following raids on their homes.
All had been previously imprisoned for their faith. Most had served between five and six years, but...
Kidnappers have released ten more students abducted from Bethel Baptist High School in July, Pastor John Joseph Hayab, state Chairman of the Christian Association of Nigeria, confirmed on 18 September.
The students were set free that evening and have been reunited with...
Two sisters, both Christians, were abducted and forced to marry two Muslim cousins and convert to Islam, according to Barnabas Fund contacts in Punjab, Pakistan.
Arooj, 18 years old, and Kinza, 14, were kidnapped on 29 June from Lahore, and...
Gunmen attacked a church service in Okedayo, Kogi State, Nigeria on Sunday 19 September, killing one and abducting three.
Five armed men entered the church at approximately 8 a.m. and began shooting indiscriminately, kidnapping the pastor and two of the congregation.
As they...
A pastor was shot and killed by Tatmadaw soldiers in Thantlang township, Chin State, Myanmar, as he was trying to help put out a fire caused by an artillery attack.
The attack on 18 September, part of an intensifying of the conflict...
Suspected Fulani militants have killed 12 people during a raid on Peigyim village, near Kibori, in the Atyap Chiefdom of Zango-Kataf Local Government Area of Kaduna State, in Nigeria’s Middle Belt.
The attack happened during heavy rain on the evening of Sunday...
Police in Harbin, Heilongjiang Province, China raided a Christian music school on 4 September, arresting all staff members and students present.
During the raid police confiscated school property, including pianos, computers and documents. All students were released after being detained...
