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A knife-wielding attacker shouting “Allahu Akbar” beheaded a woman and killed two other people in a suspected terrorist attack at a church in the French city of Nice today, 29 October, while a gunman was shot dead by police...
Azerbaijan forces are using Israeli “kamikaze drone” weapons, alongside Turkish military backing, in bombing strikes against civilian targets, including churches, in the disputed Armenian Christian-majority region of Nagorno-Karabakh.
The recent conflict in in Nagorno-Karabakh (often called “Artsakh” by Armenians, which...
A Sri Lankan pastor has been forced to stop his ministry in Bakamuna, Polonnaruwa District after being threatened and intimidated by police and Buddhist monks.
Police visited the pastor on the morning of 18 October and ordered him to report...
After a five-month break during the Covid-19 crisis, the committee overseeing the licensing of churches in Egypt met again on 19 October and approved 100 new registrations.
The new batch is made up of 45 churches and 55 affiliated service...
An open letter signed by 120 lawyers and activists is calling on the head of Iran’s judiciary to overturn a court’s decision refusing a Christian couple custody of their two-year-old adopted daughter because of their faith.
The appeal by Christian...
Swiss missionary Beatrice Stöckli, kidnapped by Islamic militants four years ago in Mali, has been murdered by her captors, according to the Swiss foreign ministry.
She was killed about a month ago by members of the Islamist terrorist organisation Jama’at...
Iranian Christian convert Ebrahim Firouzi, who has already spent six years in prison and nearly a year in internal exile because of his faith, was cleared of fresh charges on 27 September.
The prosecutor dismissed the latest accusations against Ebrahim...
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is stepping up enforcement of its ban on the printing of Christian and other religious material by threatening printers and reprographics businesses with closure, and owners and staff with large fines or imprisonment.
The manager...
