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Suspected Fulani militants are planning the “systematic extermination” of “nationalities” in Nigeria’s Middle Belt and the take-over of their ancestral lands, according to the President of the Southern Kaduna Peoples Union, Jonathan Asake. In this part of the country, Christian-majority...
Christians in Aceh, a semi-autonomous province of Indonesia, have called upon the central government in Jakarta to take action in an ongoing dispute over the demolition of church buildings. Local authorities in the Singkil district of Aceh demolished nine church buildings...
A prominent Nigerian church leader has called for urgent government action to prevent the “genocide” of the Irigwe people in the Bassa local government area of Plateau State. The Irigwe, an ethnic group in Nigeria’s Middle Belt with a...
A group of Christians in Somaliland have been released from detention after charges against them relating to offences against the state religion of Islam were dismissed. Among them were Mohamed and Hamdi, a couple who were arrested with their new-born baby in late...
Four Nigerian students kidnapped from Bethel Baptist High School, Kaduna State, have escaped from their abductors. This leaves at 83 the total number of students still being held by the gunmen who kidnapped around 120 pupils from the Christian boarding school...
Survivors reported that seven people were killed as gunmen suspected to be Fulani herdsmen attacked small villages in Miango, Irigwe chiefdom in Bassa Local Government Area of Plateau State, in Nigeria’s Middle Belt. Several persons were also injured in...
Christians in Lebanon are requesting prayer as the country still struggles to recover a year after the Beirut Port explosion which killed at least 218 and injured more than 6,000. The aftermath of the explosion exacerbated the economic crisis...
More than 80 ethnic-Chin people have been killed in Myanmar since the February military coup, according to the Institute of Chin Affairs (ICA). The ICA reported that, as of 3 July, 81 people had been killed by the military – also...
The inhabitants of Suandrapara, a Christian village in the Rangmati area of the Chittagong Hill Tracts, Bangladesh, were forced to flee after suffering threats and two violent attacks from Buddhist radicals. The villagers, who converted from Buddhism 16 years ago,...
A resurgent Taliban has taken control of huge swathes of Afghanistan, imposing a particularly harsh form of sharia (Islamic law) and forcing women and girls to marry Taliban fighters. The Taliban gains are a result of the US withdrawal from...
