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The so-called Arab Spring has given a big boost to radical Islamists like the Muslim Brotherhood. For Christians, it’s been a much different story. Believers are suffering major persecution throughout the Middle East and North Africa. But there is one place left in the region where they don’t have to fear: Israel. Before Islam’s prophet [...]

Around 300 Christians have been killed in one diocese alone, and 27 people died in attacks on three church services as anti-Christian violence in Nigeria continues unabated. The Rt Rev Timothy Yahaya, Bishop of Jalingo, Taraba State, in Nigeria’s Middle Belt, said that 300 Christians have been killed in his diocese in a series of [...]

There was concern Tuesday, May 1, over the situation of a young Pakistani mother who local Christians said has been “falsely accused” of “blaspheming” Islam’s Prophet Muhammad. Shamim Bibi, 26, was detained February 28 at her home in Khichiwala village in Pakistan’s Punjab province and has since been held behind bars, explained The Voice, a [...]

A grenade explosion yesterday killed a 27-year-old university student at a church in Nairobi and injured 16 people, sources said. Kelvin Walumba was killed after a man pretending to be a worshipper at God’s House of Miracles International Church in the Ngara area of Nairobi threw three grenades as the service was concluding; only one [...]