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A patent filed by technology giant Huawei for a system that identifies the faces of ethnic Uighurs, a severely persecuted group in China, has been uncovered by US researchers.
Huawei's patent, originally filed in July 2018 in collaboration with the...
At least 13 people were killed in a suicide bomb attack in predominantly-Christian Mozogo, Mayo Tsanaga department, in Far North Cameroon, after armed militants raided the community.
The attack, thought to be perpetrated by Boko Haram, took place in...
A 16-year-old Pakistani Christian girl, brutally raped by a gang of Muslim robbers because of her faith, acted selflessly to save her younger sister from sexual attack.
“Don’t do anything to my sister, whatever you do, do to me,” the...
At least 24 people were killed, over 20 abducted, a church burnt and a pastor kidnapped by jihadi militants during two attacks on Christmas Eve, in Borno and Adamawa states, Nigeria.
On 24 December, armed militants raided the predominantly Christian...
Collusion between the communist authorities in North Korea and neighbouring China over the arrest, punishment and forced repatriation of Christians has been described by exiles interviewed by the London-based campaign group, Korea Future Initiative (KFI).
Investigators documented the torture and...
The Cabinet-affiliated committee responsible for licensing churches in Egypt rounded off 2020 by authorising 62 new registrations on 29 December.
This 18th batch of licences approved brings the number of churches and affiliated service buildings granted official recognition to 1,800...
Egypt’s Public Prosecutor Hamada al-Sawy is looking into contesting an Appeals Court ruling that acquitted three Muslim men charged with stripping naked an elderly Christian woman and dragging her through the streets of al-Karm village in Minya province, 250km...
A Christian man, imprisoned for life on the charge of “blasphemy,” has been acquitted by the Lahore High Court more than eleven years after his initial arrest.
Imran Ghafur, acquitted on 15 December, was sentenced to life in prison and...
One Christian was killed and two others injured in an Islamist extremist attack on a Christian-owned shop in al-Wardayan district, Alexandria, Egypt.
Ramsis Boulos Hermina, his brother Adel Hermina, and Tareq Fawzy Shenouda were stabbed and beaten by Muslim extremists...
Eleven Armenian prisoners of war have been killed by their Azerbaijani captors, and more than 70 Armenian soldiers taken captive following Azerbaijan’s violation of the ceasefire which had halted the fighting in Nagorno-Karabakh on 10 November.
Footage emerged on 15...
