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More than 20 people were killed in an attack by suspected Islamist militants in North Kivu province in the Democratic Republic of Congo on 30 October.
At least 15 of the 21 dead were women, local witnesses said. Members of...
Islamic militants turned a village football pitch in northern Mozambique into an execution ground where they beheaded more than 50 people during three days of savage violence between Friday, 6 November and Sunday, 8 November.
Villagers who tried to flee...
Bangladeshi Christians, and other minority groups, took to the streets of Dhaka in a 500-strong peaceful protest march on 7 November against relentless Islamist extremist attacks on minority communities.
Rana Dasgupto, the Secretary General of the Bangladesh Hindu, Bouddha, Christian...
Sindh High Court ruled on 9 November that Pakistani Christian girl Arzoo Raja is a minor and declared that her “marriage” to her Muslim abductor is illegal.
A division bench directed that Arzoo be taken back to a safe shelter...
North Korea has set up “quarantine camps” for Covid-19 patients, where they are deprived of food and medicine, causing many to die of starvation, according to Christians working in the area.
Tim Peters, who runs Seoul-based charity Helping Hands Korea,...
Survivors of a massacre at a school in the western Oromia region of Ethiopia reported that at least 54 ethnic Amhara, most of whom are thought to have been Christians, died, according to a body count made after gunmen...
Christian and Muslim leaders signed an agreement on 27 October aimed at promoting peace and freedom of religion in Sudan following the ousting of dictator Omar al-Bashir and the ending of 30 years of rule under Islamic law.
The International...
Four Lao Christians remain in jail four months after they were arrested for planning a Christian funeral, which was deemed by local authorities to violate traditional customs.
The four were arrested on 3 July after travelling to Phousath village, Khammouane...
The scale and ferocity of the current Azeri-Turkey offensive, including raining Israeli-made cluster bombs down on innocent civilians even as they sheltered in church buildings, has intensified the justifiable concern among Armenian Christians of a rising threat of ethnic...
Pakistan’s High Court ordered on 2 November that a 13-year-old Christian girl be removed from the custody of her Muslim abductor, who had pressurised her to convert to Islam before forcing her into marriage.
The Sindh court ordered police and...
