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Hundreds of Muslim villagers in Egypt’s south have attacked Christian-owned stores in search of a girl whose family claims was abducted. The villagers assaulted the stores Tuesday and surrounded two churches in the city of al-Wasta in Bani Suef province in Egypt’s south. Security forces guarded the churches. No casualties were reported. The college-aged girl [...]

The death toll has risen to 41 in the wake of Monday’s suicide bombing of a bus station in Kano, Nigeria. Many believe Christians were the target of the bombing because it took place in a primarily Christian neighborhood. Two suicide bombers, believe to be connected to Boko Haram, rammed a car full of explosives [...]

Christian children fleeing from gunmen saved their lives by hiding among the rock formations towering over the eastern side of this northern village, but a 6-month-old baby and a 13-year-old girl never got the chance. The infant, Alexander Blessed, and the girl, Happiness Adamu, were the youngest of five people from five churches who were [...]

Days before Burmese President Thein Sein was reportedly nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize last week, a report revealed his government troops had killed and raped dozens of civilians and burned hundreds of churches and homes. At war with rebels in predominantly Christian Kachin state, government troops killed at least nine civilians and wounded more [...]

“According to HUDO’s observation, it is clear that the systematic campaign of the government [of Sudan] is part of a plan targeting the native Nubians. Even the timing is arranged to destroy all institutions that gather Nubians either religious or social as the beginning of implementing the Univision (single Islamic Arabian), denial of Nubian Christians’ [...]

In what may be the first such instance in Kazakhstan, a court has ordered religious literature to be destroyed. A total of 121 books confiscated from a Baptist, Vyacheslav Cherkasov, were ordered destroyed in the northern Akmola Region, according to the verdict seen by Forum 18 News Service. The books comprise Bibles, Children’s Bibles, and [...]

According to a recent El Watan News report, three Christian brothers were shot dead at their home by automatic weapons a few weeks before two were set to have their weddings. The victims’ family (of 13 members) was earlier accused of trying to build a church on land they owned when they purchased building material [...]

Muslims of Jehlum City threatened to burn Christian homes like Lahore as Christian protestors against burning of 200 homes in Joseph Colony Badami Bag Lahore too to streets of Jehlum City on March 12, 2013, chanting slogans “Repeal Blasphemy law” “Blasphemy law is Black Law” The Islamists announced on mosque loudspeakers to gather to punish [...]

Gunmen on Thursday attacked an Egyptian Coptic church in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi and started a fire, witnesses said. “Several armed men arrived firing in the air, started a fire in the church and left,” a resident near the church in central Benghazi told AFP, asking not to be named. An AFP correspondent [...]

Congregation members from the embattled Huria Kristen Batak Protestan Setu Church in Bekasi have refused to dismantle their place of worship after the local government ordered them to shut down last week. “We’re firm, we won’t dismantle the temple of God that we have built,” said Torang Simanjuntak, the pastor at the church known as [...]