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From Christian Today: Gunmen believed to be members of the Islamic extremist Boko Haram group yesterday killed the Rev. Faye Pama Musa, secretary of the Borno state chapter of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN). He was 47. The gunmen reportedly followed the long-time Christian leader from his church building, where he was holding an [...]

The massacre of Otranto is one of the worst killings done against Christians by Muslims. The bishop of the southern Italian city was seized by the Turks and cut in half, while every other priest was murdered without question. It is noble of the Pope to give remembrance to them. The Irish Times writes: Pope [...]

Scholar Eric Metaxas writes in the forward for the Persecuted,  by Hudson Institute religious freedom scholars Lela Gilbert, Paul Marshall, and Nina Shea, that “focuses on a scandalously underreported fact, that Christians are the single most widely persecuted religious group in the world today,” a “terrible trend…on the upswing.”  The two latter scholars write that “it is in the Muslim world [...]

Click Here to Save a Christians Life Now! The Christian Elders Forum of Northern States, CEFNS, called on the Federal Government to rebuild the over 400 churches destroyed by Boko Haram insurgency in the region. This is even as the Defence Headquarters, DHQ, yesterday sent a high powered team of senior officers to Baga, Borno [...]

Click Here to Save a Christians Life Now! A militant serving a 19-year prison sentence for beheading three Christian schoolgirls has escaped while visiting his sick wife and is still at large, Indonesian police said Friday. National Police spokesman Brig. Gen. Boy Rafli Amar said Basri, 36, fled from his house in the Central Sulawesi [...]

Click Here to Save a Christians Life Now! Christian converts in Morocco feared for their future Thursday, April 25, after the country’s highest Islamic institute issued a fatwa demanding the death penalty for Muslims who renounce their religion. The Supreme Ulema Council of Morocco (CSO), a body of Islamic scholars headed by King Mohammed VI, [...]

Click Here to Save a Christians Life Now! Christians living in northern Nigeria continue to be targeted by Boko Haram for extreme acts of violence. Last week, Christians riding a bus were pulled over and asked about their religious convictions at gunpoint. When these Christians confessed their faith , they were executed on the spot. [...]

Click Here to Save a Christians Life Now! Hundreds of thousands of Christians have been displaced by the fighting or left the country in the past two years. Melkite Greek Catholic Patriarch Gregorios III Laham recently said more than 1,000 Christians had been killed, “entire villages… cleared of their Christian inhabitants”, and more than 40 [...]

Click Here to Save a Christians Life Now! Islamist extremists want Iraq to be a “Muslim only” country. As a result, Christians in Iraq remain continuous targets of violent attacks. Each month Open Doors field workers receive sad phone calls and emails of Christian acquaintances who report attacks against the Christians near them. While most [...]

Click Here to Save a Christians Life Now! Iraqi pastor Abdi Ali Hamzah, also known as Pastor Jamal, has finally been released from prison after 21 months and will get the medical attention that he needs following what one ministry leader is calling an unprecedented move. “It is by God’s grace that this has been [...]