NIGERIA – Herdsmen attack seminary in Taraba, Catholic priest shot
New Telegraph | 052818 Fulani herdsmen have attacked a minor seminary in Jalingo, Taraba State capital. According to a report, Two Catholic priests were beaten, one shot in the leg,…
BURMA – Rohingya Muslim militants massacred 99 Hindu men, women and children who refused to convert to Islam
Creeping Sharia | Persecution of other religious groups | 052718 The Rohingya military group Arsa carried out deadly massacres and abductions of the Hindu community in Myanmar’s Rakhine state last…
Trump: American Pastor Jailed In Turkey Is ‘A Totally Innocent Man’
The Daily Caller | 052718 An American pastor facing trial in Turkey on allegations of aiding terrorist groups is “a totally innocent man,” President Donald Trump said Saturday. “We have…
IRAQ – A Mostly Non-Christian Militia Won 2 Of Iraqi Christians’ Parliamentary Seats, Now Christians Want Trump To Intervene
The Babylon Brigade is led by a Christian but is tied to the brutal Iranian-backed Muslim paramilitary Badr Organization. Huffington Post |052318 WASHINGTON ― A mostly non-Christian militia linked to…
IRAQ – Exclusive – Iraqi Lawmaker-Elect Vows to Push for ‘Christian Province’ to Ensure Future of Faith
Breitbart | 052318 The future of Christianity in its cradle of Iraq is contingent upon the establishment of a separate province for the persecuted minority, an Iraqi member of parliament…
CHINA – ‘Purge Against Christians’ Underway in China as Persecution Ramps Up
CBN News | 052218 Photo credit: Getty Images It feels like every day we are hearing more news about China increasing persecution on the Christian community. Abuses are escalating to…
RUSSIA – Russian police KILL four terrorists as petrol bomb gunmen storm church and take hostages
Daily Star | 051918 RUSSIA: Cops killed four gunmen after they stormed the church in GroznyGunmen stormed the building in a bid to take hostages – with no responsbility for…
VIDEO: Ambassador Sam Brownback Addresses Religious Freedom Concerns at IRD’s Persecution Summit
JuiceyEcumenism | 051818 The Institute on Religion and Democracy (IRD) hosted a global Christian persecution summit, “Why Christians Don’t Care About Christians,” in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Thursday,…
GERMANY – Over 300 Christians Assaulted by Muslims at Refugee Camps in Germany, Report Reveals
Christian Posts | May 16, 2018 There have been over 300 incidents of Christians being physically or sexually assaulted by Muslims in refugee camps in Germany, while thousands of other…
LIBYA – Egypt: Families of beheaded Copts finally reunited with remains of loved ones
WorldWatch Monitor | 051618 After a three-year wait and a number of broken promises, the Egyptian Coptic families of 20 men beheaded by IS in Libya in 2015 have finally…
Trump Urged to Take On Religious Liberty
NewsMax | 051318 The Trump administration is being urged to elevate the cause of religious liberty — some liken it to the same urgency that the Obama administration placed on…
INDONESIA – Family of suicide bombers kills at least 7 in Indonesia church attacks
Washington Post | 051318 | VIDEO Three churches in Surabaya, Indonesia, were targeted in suicide bomb attacks on May 13. Police say the family of six was in an Islamic…
PAKISTAN – Pakistani Christian Teen Raped, Then Tied Down and Murdered in Front of Father by Muslim Family
Black Christian News | 051218 A 17-year-old Christian girl was murdered in Pakistan after being tied down and strangled to death by a Muslim family before her father’s own eyes,…
Senators Lankford, Tillis urge rethink of U.S.-Turkey relationship in wake of Andrew Brunson trial
EPConnection | 051118 Sen. Thom Tillis, speaking from the Senate floor on May 10: “We’re going to continue to work every day that (Andrew Brunson) is in prison to…
U.S. Religious Freedom Ambassador: A ‘Global Religious War’ Rages Against Christians
Breitbart | 051018 AP/Hussein Malla 10 May 2018421 WASHINGTON, DC — Sam Brownback, the new U.S. ambassador-at-large for International Religious Freedom, joined faith leaders, activists, experts, and laymen at a…
‘We Can Look Away, But We Can’t Say We Didn’t Know’: The Persecuted Church Is Heard On Capitol Hill
CBNNews | 051018 WASHINGTON – Nearly 215 million Christians experience severe persecution worldwide, according to the Institute on Religion and Democracy. The plight of the oppressed has long been advocated…
NORTH KOREA – Trump Greets 3 American Detainees Freed From North Korea
The New York Times | 051018 JOINT BASE ANDREWS, Md. — Three American prisoners freed from North Korea arrived here early Thursday to a personal welcome from President Trump, who…
EGYPT – Young newlywed becomes 8th Egyptian Coptic Christian woman to go missing since April
Christian Today | 050918 A young Coptic Christian woman who had been married for two weeks has been missing since disappearing from her school on May 2, sparking fears that…
SAUDI ARABIA – Saudis Draw Line in the Sand for Christians
The Patriot Post | 050518 Imagine a country of 830,000 square miles — bigger than Alaska — without a single church. Right now, that’s Saudi Arabia. For Christians, it’s a…
KENYA – Gunmen Attack Church in Central African Republic, and Warn of More Violence
New York Times | 050218 NAIROBI, Kenya — Former members of a Muslim militia killed at least 16 people in an attack on a church in the Central African Republic,…
Why atheists (and everyone else) should support freedom of religion
LDS Church | 050118 LONDON, England — While freedom of religion or belief is being seen more and more merely as a right to worship rather than a right to…
TURKEY – Urgent push to criminalize criticism of Islam
WND | 043018 Turkey, a member of NATO along with the United States, for years was regarded as a moderate Muslim nation with Western leanings. But it recently has taken a…
PHILIPPINES – Horror: Catholic priest shot dead while blessing children after Mass
Patheos | 042918 Catholic priest known for his anti-mining advocacy was shot dead on Sunday after celebrating Mass in the northern Philippines, police said. Father Mark Ventura was shot twice…
IRF REPORT – Pompeo, Brownback Release Annual International Religious Freedom Report
Washington Free Beacon | 042918 | VIDEO Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and United States Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom Sam Brownback released the 2017 Annual Report on International Religious Freedom at…
NIGERIA – Christian Genocide in Nigeria
Gatestone | 042618 Two days ago in Nigeria, on April 24, around 30 Muslim herdsmen stormed a church during early morning mass and massacred nearly 20 parishioners and two clergymen. Rev. Fathers…
MEXICO – For the third time in a week, a priest is found dead in Mexico
CRUXNow| 042618 A Catholic priest who had been reported kidnapped has been found dead in central Mexico. He’s the third priest to die under violent circumstances in the past week.…
NIGERIA – Nigerian Mass Becomes a Massacre: Herdsmen Kill 18 Worshipers, Adding to Hundreds of Victims
Christianity Today | April 25, 2018 An attack on morning Mass at a Catholic church in central Nigeria yesterday left 2 priests and at least 17 parishioners dead, adding to…
Sen. Tillis presents details of Brunson case on Senate floor
EPCConnection | 042518 On April 25, Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) gave an impassioned, 15-minute speech from the floor of the U.S. Senate about Andrew Brunson’s imprisonment in Turkey. In his…
IRAQ – “Persecuted Christians in Iraq don’t consider themselves heroes, they believe they did what they had to”
Rome Reports | 042418 | VIDEO Christians from the Nineveh Plains celebrated Easter like this... in churches still burned by the Islamic State, like this one in Qaraqosh. They also…
EGYPT – Egypt: Muslims screaming “Allahu akbar” smash church’s doors and windows, pelt Christian homes with stones
Jihad Watch | Most recently, the Virgin Mary and Pope Kyrillos VI Church in Beni Meinin, Beni Suef Governorate, was attacked on 14 April, the same day as a visit…
NIGERIA – Nigerian priest liberated after four days in captivity
CNA | 042318 Fr. Edwin Omoregbe, who had been kidnapped last week in Nigeria's Edo state, was released on Sunday. “With great joy in our heart, we want to inform…
PAKISTAN – Christians are being forced out of Pakistani city by Isil violence
By Anum Mirza, Quetta | 042118 Christians say they are being driven from one of Pakistan’s major cities after a string of deadly terrorist attacks claimed by Islamic State in Iraq…
TURKEY – Erdogan Again Shows That He’s Holding American Pastor Hostage In Turkish Prison
DailyCaller | 042118 Turkey’s authoritarian president made it clear that his government his holding American pastor Andrew Brunson hostage in a Turkish prison President Erdogan said the U.S. government should…
CHINA – VATICAN Churches demolished, desecrated tombs, keeping kids from worship: persecution in the Henan Church (Video)
Asianews.net | 042018 The church of the village of Hutuo has been reduced to a pile of ruins; the tomb of the bishop of Luoyang, not recognized by the government,…
PAKISTAN – Christian girl set on fire for turning down Muslim man’s marriage proposal
Pakistan Today, April 20, 2018 (thanks to Orange Martyrs): –Sialkot’s Rizwan Gujjar torched Asma using petrol after she refused to renounce her faith and marry him LAHORE: A Christian girl…
MALAYSIA – Pastor Raymond Koh’s Wife Pleads for His Release on the Anniversary of His Abduction
OpenDoorsUSA | 021518 | VIDEO The wife of the Malaysian pastor Raymond Koh, abducted near Kuala Lumpur a year ago Tuesday, February 13, 2017, has issued a statement pleading for…