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The World Evangelical Alliance urged Israel on Tuesday to rein in settler violence and halt settlement expansion in the occupied West Bank, telling the United Nations Human Rights Council it was particularly concerned about Taybeh, which the group described as the territory's last predominantly Christian village.
A pastor was shot and killed while on his way to a church service in Nigeria’s Plateau State on Sunday morning, one of at least nine people killed in a series of attacks in rural communities over the weekend.
Myanmar’s military junta has shot and killed a Baptist pastor in the Christian-majority Chin state, the third killing of a pastor there in about three and a half months, according to a religious freedom group that is pressing the U.S. government to act.
Two U.N. experts have demanded Iran explain the confiscation of the country’s oldest Protestant church, it has emerged.
Special forces police in Algeria raided a worship service at a humanitarian shelter on Sept. 4, arresting all 12 Christians present on suspicion of holding an unauthorized, non-Muslim religious service.
The current Israeli strategy of targeted assassinations of Hamas commanders and terrorists involved in the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attacks “will not lead to the elimination of the organization,” a source close to the Board of Peace (BoP) says.
The Church of England has rescinded an interfaith award given to a Muslim cleric after comments he made praising Osama bin Laden recently resurfaced.
In Pakistan’s Punjab province, the Christian parents of 15-year-old Sagar Masih are appealing for his return, saying he was pressured into converting to Islam at a factory job. A rights group says the case is one of a growing number of similar reports involving underage Christian boys in that country.
Ruth Wang, a partner at a law firm representing pastors from Beijing’s Zion Church, among China's largest underground congregations, has fled the country with her husband and two children as Chinese authorities pressured the firm to dissolve.
