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“500 Muslims had gathered and were watching in amusement as the extremists chased and harassed the Christians, attempting to murder them all, for about 90 minutes.” As Easter, one of the highest Christian holidays, comes in April, Christian persecution in Muslim nations—from sheer violence to oppressive laws—was rampant: In Nigeria, where jihadis have expressed their [...]

Should “rebels” get their way and topple the Assad regime, the same brutal pattern experienced by Iraq’s Christian minorities will come to Syria, where an anti-Assad Muslim preacher recently urged Muslims to “tear apart, chop up and feed” Christians to the dogs. What is the alternative to Bashar al-Assad’s regime in Syria? Just consider which [...]

With the presidential elections coming up next week, some Copts are hoping that candidate Ahmed Shafiq, former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak’s prime minister and a former military commander, would be the one to help end the discriminatory rules concerning building churches. The church-building policy in Egypt has been the subject of a heated debate for [...]

Revelations about the scale of hate crimes against Christian women in Pakistan and Egypt are to be the subject of a meeting in parliament today. At the briefing in the House of Commons, MPs and peers will hear how Christian women in countries marked by religious persecution experience kidnapping, violence, rape, and even have basics [...]

Fighting between government troops and the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) in northern Kachin state has forced dozens of civilians to take shelter at a Baptist church in Sumprabum, located about 80 miles north of Myitkyina. At least 40 people from Mai Htawng village arrived at the church yesterday and it is expected that more will [...]

“Why would they build a church here when most of the residents are Muslim?” Taupik says. “What reason could they have unless it was to convert us all?” Now in his 50s, Taupik has lived in Jejalen Raya village in Bekasi all his life. For him and many of his neighbors in North Tambun subdistrict, [...]

A mob of Islamic hard-liners threw stones and bags of urine at the HKBP Filadelphia congreagation of the Batak Christian Protestant Church in Bekasi, on the outskirts of Jakarta, at an Ascension Day service on Thursday. Police tried to stop the mob of some 300 people, but were also attacked, according to reports. “They assaulted [...]

To date, the police refuses to liberate the girl, despite the repeated requests of the family. Mary Salik (fictitious name) was kidnapped last May 4 near Faisalabad by an uncle who had converted to Islam. The girl’s father denounces conspiracy against his family: “My daughter has heart problems and was kidnapped by deception”. Faisalabad – [...]