The United States has signed a $5.1 billion five-year bilateral health agreement with Nigeria, directing substantial new funding toward Christian faith-based healthcare providers in an effort to expand health services and protect vulnerable Christian populations. The move marks a new phase in U.S.-Nigeria cooperation under the America First Global Health Strategy.
More than 1,000 police, SWAT and paramilitary units carried out a crackdown on Christian churches across at least 12 congregations for days in Yayang Town, Zhejiang province, detaining hundreds, according to a watchdog report.
Five Iranian Christians have been sentenced to a combined 50 years in prison for religious activities, including prayer, baptism and distributing Bibles, according to watchdog organizations.
The question is whether the Nigerian government will now take meaningful steps to rein in the radical Islamic groups responsible for the increasing violence.
A Pakistani Muslim man who sexually assaulted his Christian neighbor's 6-year-old daughter is pressuring her family to withdraw their police complaint and reach a settlement.
A court in Pakistan acquitted a Christian charged with blasphemy, his lawyer said.
Several Christians were among a group of prisoners recently released in Eritrea, though seven senior church leaders remain in detention after two decades without charge or trial, a watchdog group has announced.
This Christmas will be a time of deep prayer and remembrance, rather than a celebration.
Gunmen attacked Christians in southeast Nigeria as they were gathering for worship, killing an Anglican priest’s wife and another church member and abducting another priest earlier this month.
A Presbyterian pastor who survived an attack in September was gunned down by an unidentified assailant outside his home in front of his daughter last week in Pakistan, his family said.
