Barnabas Aid
The Egyptian Cabinet-affiliated committee responsible for the licensing of churches approved 76 more registrations on Sunday 25 July.This twentieth batch of registrations brings the total number of licensed churches to 1,958 out of a total of 3,730 which applied for registration...
Barnabas Fund was a major sponsor of the first International Religious Freedom Summit (IRF) held in Washington DC from 13 July to 15 July.
Barnabas (known in the United States as Barnabas Aid) was also on the planning and steering...
Twenty-eight students kidnapped from a Christian boarding school in Kaduna State, Nigeria, almost three weeks ago were reunited with their families on Sunday, 25 July, after being released by their abductors.
They were among around 120 students abducted by gunmen...
Pastors in the Three-Self Patriotic Movement (TSPM), the official Protestant church of China, have been instructed to deliver sermons based on a recent speech by President Xi Jinping.
The instruction came at a national conference on 8 July led by...
A new report from anti-poverty charity Oxfam warns that 20 million more people across the...
Eighteen Nigerians were killed in Christian-majority southern Kaduna State when suspected Fulani Islamist militants stormed...
Iranian Christian convert Hamed Ashoori has been ordered to begin a ten-month prison sentence for...
A group of Muslim schoolchildren aged between five and twelve has been accused of desecrating graves at a Christian cemetery in Surakarta, central Java province, Indonesia.
The vandalism, carried out by an estimated ten to twelve children, included breaking crosses...
Three pastors from Kachin state, Myanmar, have been arrested for organising prayers for peace.
The chairman of the Rawang Literature and Culture Committee (RLCC)
brought a lawsuit against them for conducting an inter-denominational
prayer service in Naungmoon township of Putao district...
Two women were injured when a bomb exploded inside a church in Beni, in the troubled north-east region of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), on Sunday 27 June, one of three blasts that took place in the city...
