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A 16-year-old Pakistani Christian girl was abducted from her own home in Shorkot in Punjab and forced into marriage with a Muslim after being forced to convert to Islam.
Muhammad Azeem Malik and two other men, all armed with pistols, entered the...
More than 35 residents of Yelwan Zangam, a Christian community in the Jos North Local Government Area of Plateau State, Nigeria, have been killed in an attack by suspected Fulani militants.
Gunmen invaded the community around 8 pm on Tuesday 24...
The Taliban takeover in Afghanistan, completed with the fall of Kabul on Sunday 15 August, creates great danger for Afghan Christians, all of them converts from Islam or the children of converts.
If they are caught by the Taliban, they...
Fifteen more students abducted from a Christian boarding school in Kaduna State in Nigeria’s Middle Belt have been released on health grounds after spending 48 days in captivity.
The students were among around 120 kidnapped by gunmen from Bethel Baptist High School...
Romania celebrated a national day to commemorate Christian martyrs and victims of violence on Monday, 16 August.
Romania’s President Klaus Iohannis had ratified the law proclaiming 16 August as “National Day of Remembrance of the Brâncoveanu Martyrs and of Awareness of Violence...
A Christian couple released from death row in Pakistan after being acquitted of “blasphemy” have arrived safely in Europe, where they have been granted asylum.
Shafqat Emmanuel and his wife Shagufta Kausar (also known as Shagufta Masih) received death threats after...
A battalion of the Myanmar Army launched multiple attacks on civilians in several villages of Waingmaw Township, Kachin State, in the opening weeks of August. Four attacks over the course of five days damaged property and left villagers terrified.
On the evening...
A girl abducted by Boko Haram from the Nigerian town of Chibok seven years ago has been reunited with her parents, raising hopes that others still being held will be found, the governor of Borno State announced on 7 August....
Local authorities have demolished a church building in the Maduganari area of Maiduguri, Borno State, Nigeria, leading to the death of Ezekiel Bitrus, the son of a pastor. The Borno Geographic Information System (BOGIS) conducted the demolition on 5...
The government of the self-declared Luhansk People’s Republic has added four Christian books to an official list of Extremist Materials. Forum 18 reports that a court in Luhansk (also called Lugansk) ruled in May 2021 that the books were “extremist”...
