The doors of some small churches in Zanzibar, a semi-autonomous archipelago of Tanzania, have been broken, Bibles scattered and congregations left shaken. Yet Christians in several Muslim-majority communities continue to…
Category: World
Christian nurse hailed as hero in Pakistan after saving infant from deadly hospital fire
A Christian nurse who risked her life to rescue an infant from a deadly fire at a government hospital in Pakistan’s federal capital has been hailed as a hero across…
After Jewish settlers re-enter Palestinian town of Qusra, Netanyahu condemns ‘handful of rioters’
IDF soldiers and Border Patrol Police were deployed to the town of Qusra on Saturday after dozens of masked Jewish settlers entered the village, broke into a Palestinian home and threw rocks…
UK gov’t tells asylum seekers it’s not OK to rape women, have sex with children
A former British lawmaker says the U.K. government must do more to protect women from violence perpetrated by migrants seeking asylum. Read More The Christian Post | RSS
At least 27 killed in Zimbabwe church bus crash; President Emmerson Mnangagwa makes disaster declaration
At least 27 people were killed when a minibus taxi carrying members of a Christian congregation crashed head-on into a haulage truck in Zimbabwe. Seven others were hurt. Read More…
22 Christian women charged with ‘forced’ conversion days before anti-conversion law took effect in Indian state
Twenty-two Christian women are facing criminal charges after police in Maharashtra, India, accused them of trying to convert an 18-year-old student just days before a stringent new anti-conversion law took…
Iran kills, imprisons dozens of Christians as persecution rises
Iran has killed at least 33 Christian ministers and jailed dozens more linked to an underground church movement in recent months, as the government intensifies its persecution of Christians, according…
Iranian Christian convert deported from US granted asylum in Canada
An Iranian Christian convert who was deported from the United States while seeking asylum has received a new home in Canada amid concerns about the safety of Iranian Christians who…
Britain’s largest Christian music festival shuts down after 1 killed, 6 injured
Organizers closed Big Church Festival, Britain’s largest Christian music festival, on its opening day Friday out of compassion for victims after a sign fell and killed one person and injured…
Fear of persecution grows as 13th Indian state enacts anti-conversion law
Fear of persecution among Indian Christians has led churches in Maharashtra to ask worshippers to sign consent forms declaring that they attend services of their own free will, as this…