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Several Christians were injured in a shooting incident on 6 September in the Shera Kot district of Lahore, Pakistan, a Barnabas Fund contact reports.
A group of six or seven Muslims opened fire on the houses of Christian residents in...
The body of a Christian Rohingya refugee was left without burial for 30 hours because of a protest by Rohingya Muslims, who form the majority of people at the sprawling Cox’s Bazar refugee camp in Bangladesh.
Muslims have for many years allowed...
Christians who remain in Afghanistan are at risk of being hunted down and killed by the Taliban now that the Islamist group has regained control of the country and, on 7 September, announced the formation of a new government.
The Christians...
The entire population of Taal village in Chin State was forced to flee after soldiers ransacked homes, killed animals and destroyed valuables during a series of raids in the largely Christian region.
During these raids the Tatmadaw (Myanmar military) soldiers occupied a...
Persecuted Christians Naser Navard Goltapeh and Leah Sharibu are among four prisoners of conscience to be “adopted” by the UK’s All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Religious Freedom and Belief.
The aim is to highlight cases in which individuals are unjustly imprisoned for...
Kidnappers have released a further 32 students of Bethel Baptist High School, a Christian boarding school in Nigeria’s Middle Belt on 27 August after 52 days in captivity.
The students were among around 120 kidnapped by gunmen from the school...
I love animals but it is astonishing that so much attention was given to the campaign to airlift out of Afghanistan some of the cats and dogs of Kabul in the hold of a specially chartered flight. In contrast,...
An Armenian Christian cemetery in eastern Turkey has been destroyed by bulldozers, with bones scattered across the field. The incident occurred in mid-August in the district of Tuşba, in the mainly Kurdish province of Van, on the Iranian border.
The neighbourhood...
An Assyrian Christian village in northern Syria was bombed on 30 August by the Turkish air force as part of a military campaign against Kurdish militants.
The bombing raid destroyed many homes and damaged others in the village of Tel Tawil (also...
An interview with Patrick Sookhdeo, International Director of Barnabas Fund, by Andrew Carey
It is the end of the West, Patrick Sookhdeo agrees as our Zoom call buffers and sputters. By this he means that a rules-based international order is...
