Tag: Persecution

A 46-year-old Pentecostal church pastor who was kidnapped in the eastern state of Jharkhand, India, has been found dead with his head severed.

Effective immediately, believers in China have been put on house arrest and forbidden from having Christian gatherings.

Jay used to dream about killing Christians and Jews in Jihad attacks around the world, but that all changed when he met Jesus.

Christians and Muslims protested last weekend in Lahore against the blasphemy laws in Pakistan, Premier Christianity UK reports.

Islamic militants who shot and killed a man on Saturday in Egypt because of his cross tattoo have pledged to kill more people.

Christian religious freedom charity China Aid, the Christians have been unfairly swept up in a province-wide crackdown on a cult.

Egyptian security officials say gunmen have shot dead a Coptic  Christian man in the turbulent north of the Sinai Peninsula.

The annual Persecution Trends Report by the U.K.-based group Release International, warns that Christians in three countries look set to face a harsh 2018.

In excess of 30 priests who were singing Christmas carols in Madhya Pradesh village of India were arrested on Thursday after a Hindu nationalist group accused them of forcibly converting Hindus.  

UK Prime Minister Theresa May has received a Bible charred by Islamic State (IS). Christian charity Open Doors UK, along with an Iraqi pastor and Conservative MP Dame Caroline Spelman presented the Bible.