Crux | August 13, 2020 As the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic continues to hit Africa hard, a leading human rights group is warning that the persecution of Christians is getting worse…
Religious Freedom Institute | Scott Morgan | June 5, 2020 When asking about the root cause of the insurgencies plaguing the Sahel region of West Africa, and specifically Mali and…
Christian Post | Anugrah Kumar | April 20, 2020 As the COVID-19 outbreak begins in sub-Saharan Africa, hundreds of thousands of Christian believers, who are already persecuted for their faith,…
Agency Fides | Jan. 20, 2020 Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "No other Country will tolerate this type of insecurity without calling for mass protests. Definitely our country is under siege",…
NCR | Nina Shea | January 11, 2020 An ongoing Islamic extremist project to exterminate Christians in sub-Saharan Africa is even more brutal and more consequential for the Church than…
Hudson Institute | Nina Shea | Jan. 11, 2020 An ongoing Islamic extremist project to exterminate Christians in sub-Saharan Africa is even more brutal and more consequential for the Church…
The Hudson Institute | Nina Shea | January 11, 2020 An ongoing Islamic extremist project to exterminate Christians in sub-Saharan Africa is even more brutal and more consequential for the…
Jamestown Foundation |Brian M. Perkins | Nov. 18, 2019 East Africa and its peripheral countries, particularly the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), are experiencing an evolution of their security…
The Wall Street Journal | Jessica Donati and Courtney McBride | Nov. 1, 2019 WASHINGTON—Africa’s Sahel region is emerging as a new frontier in the fight against terrorist groups, according…
Opinion The Hill | Fmr. Congressman Frank R. Wolf & Dr. Matthew Daniels | Sept. 21, 2019 Imagine if the largest nation in Europe was increasingly in the grip of…
The Stream | Charles Jacobs | Sept. 8, 2019 Today, an estimated 529,000 to 869,000 black men, women, and children are still slaves. They are bought, owned, sold, and traded…
They had just gathered to share stories and the happenings of the day—like West African communities often do in the evenings–when strangers entered their village in northern Burkina Faso. Before the…
Continue to pray with Christians in West Africa’s Sahel region (which includes Mali, Burkina Faso, Chad and Niger). An attack in Mali has killed an estimated 95 people, including men, women and children—a…
The Guardian | Patrick Wintour |May 2, 2019 Pervasive persecution of Christians, sometimes amounting to genocide, is ongoing in parts of the Middle East, and has prompted an exodus in…
WASHINGTON – Religious persecution plagues countries around the world and the problem is only getting worse. Now, an annual report by the US Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) gives us a…
International Christian Concern |Feb. 20, 2019 On February 13, Fulani militants attacked the Technical Secondary School of Amofia Affa, Enugu State, Nigeria. During the attack, the gunmen killed one woman named Mrs…
The Washington Post | Jan. 16, 2019 Last month, Amnesty International released a new report that outlined the costs of a dangerous and often deadly cycle of violence occurring in…
Middle East Concern | Jan. 10, 2019 On 26 December 2018, MEC reported that four Christians from Muslim backgrounds, including three from the same family, were acquitted of proselytism charges…
International Christian Concern | Jan. 7, 2019 Adijah is living with a Christian family in Kisinga, Western Uganda, after she was threatened and disowned by her husband for becoming a…
Christian Today | Jan. 7, 2019 President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi inaugurated Egypt's largest church and mosque in the New Administrative Capital on Sunday, the eve of Coptic Christmas, in a…
New Jersey Herald | Jan. 6, 2019 Islamic militants on Thursday kidnapped a Christian man traveling in a communal taxi in the turbulent north of Egypt's Sinai peninsula, according to…
The Christian Post | Jan. 3, 2019 Africa’s most populous country is Nigeria, with a population that today numbers 200 million and that is on track by 2050 to be…
France 24 - Jan. 5, 2019 A policeman was killed and two wounded in an explosion outside a church in Egypt on Saturday, a security source said. The blast took…
International Christian Concern | Dec. 24, 2018 A report recently released by the Project on Middle East Democracy details how Egypt’s 2016 church legalization law has had a minimal positive…
International Christian Concern |Dec. 22, 2018 Nearly a year ago, on December 29th, ICC reported about a terrorist attack against an Egyptian church in Helwan City. One of the attackers was wearing…
International Christian Concern | Dec. 21, 2018 Earlier this month, ICC reportedhow the Christians in Upper Egypt’s village of Kom al-Raheb were targeted by mob violence because they were praying in…
International Christian Concern | Dec. 20, 2018 There are tens of Thousands of people in Northern Ethiopia that have been living in squaller and fear after they fled their homes…
International Christian Concern | Dec. 19, 2018 Criminal charges are pending against Egyptian police officer Rabi Mustapha Khalifa after he shot and killed two Coptic Christians last week. The prosecution…
International Christian Concern | Dec. 18, 2018 Isolation. For many Muslim-background believers, also known as MBBs, this is one of the first feelings they experience when their faith becomes public.…
International Christian Concern | Dec. 18, 2018 Although Uganda is a relatively safe country to be a Christian in, many who convert from Islam face persecution. These people, often referred…
International Christian Concern | Dec. 15, 2018 Last November, a church and a Christian bookshop was closed by authorities in the Algerian city of Ain Turk. The church was reopened…
International Christian Concern | Dec. 14, 2018 International Christian Concern (ICC) has learned that on the evening of December 12, Egyptian police officer Rabi Mustapha Khalifa shot and killed Coptic…
International Christian Concern | Dec. 11, 2018 Attacks on church run refugee camps continued in the Central African Republic last week. The Unité pour la Paix en Centrafrique(UPC), a Muslim…
International Christian Concern | Dec. 11, 2018 International Christian Concern (ICC) has learned that on Sunday, December 9, a group of Islamic extremists attacked a church in the Upper Egypt…
International Christian Concern | Dec. 4, 2018 During a recent meeting with Nigeria’s president, Rev. Dacholom Datiri, President of the Church of Christ in Nigeria, issued a report calming that…
World Watch Monitor | Dec. 4, 2018 Four Algerian Christians appeared in court last week, charged with “inciting a Muslim to change his religion” and “performing religious worship in an…
NE News Now | Dec. 4, 2018 A group of organizations concerned about Christian persecution around the world are calling attention to the dire situation that has been unfolding for…
Breitbart | Dec. 3, 2018 Over 23 million girls in Nigeria are victims of child marriage, the country representative for the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment…
Assyrian International News Agency | Dec. 3, 2018 Most Reverend Justin Welby said that Christians are facing "the worst situation since the Mongol invasions of the 13th Century", explaining how…
Morning Star News | Dec. 3, 2018 A wan effort to do away with the religious designation on ID cards in Egypt reflects the enormity of the discrimination Christians face…