USA – Would-be NYC subway bomber Najibullah Zazi to be released on time served
By Emily Saul and Laura Italiano | New York Post | May 2, 2019 A Queens man caught preparing for a 9/11 anniversary suicide bomb attack on the subways under…
ADVISORY – Save the Persecuted Christians, Coalition Urge Prominent Law Firm: ‘Don’t Help the Persecutors’
***MEDIA ADVISORY*** |May 1, 2019 Faith Leaders, Religious Freedom Activists Call on Squire Patton Boggs, LLP to Stop Representing Nations that Persecute People of Faith VIEW the Facebook Livestream of…
NIGERIA – IN PLATEAU: SUSPECTED FULANI HERDSMEN DESTROYED IDPs SETTLEMENT UNDER CONSTRUCTION
Emancipation Centre for Crisis victims in Nigeria | May 1, 2019 In an attempt to disrupt relative Peace currently enjoyed in Plateau State and to scuttle self-efforts of IDPs for…
EUROPE – European Parliament may suspend all subsidies to Pakistan
On the 30 April 2019, fifty-one (51) Members of the European Parliament issued a collective letter addressed to Mr. Imran Khan, Prime Minister of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan expressing…
WORLDWIDE – Global Persecution Report: ‘Christians Are the Most Persecuted …and It’s Accelerating’ | CBN News
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…
SRI LANKA – Pastor of Sri Lankan church bombed on Easter forgives attacker: ‘You are His child’
CHRISTIAN POST | By Samuel Smith, CP Reporter | Saturday, April 27, 2019 Outside the Zion Church in Batticaloa, Sri Lanka, on April 21, 2019 after a suicide bombing. |…
FoxNews Opinion – Frank Gaffney: We must hold persecutors of Christians accountable
FoxNews | Frank Gaffney | Apr. 24, 2019 Suicide bombers took over 300 lives and wounded many more in coordinated attacks on Christian churches conducting Easter Sunday services and celebrations…
NEPAL – Five Christians, Including One American, Arrested in Nepal Under Anti-Conversion Law
ICC | Apr. 24, 2019 Religious Freedom for Minorities Continues to Deteriorate in Nepal 04/24/2019 Washington D.C. (International Christian Concern) – International Christian Concern (ICC) has learned that five Christians,…
NIGERIA – World Ignores Jihad Against Christians
Christians are being massacred in Nigeria by Fulani and Boko Haram jihadists -- and no one seems to care. The most severe persecution of these defenseless Christians -- who make…
FRANCE – Another French Church Burns on Easter Sunday, Probable Arson
Breitbart | Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D. | Apr. 23, 2019 Police have confirmed that a fire in the French church of Notre-Dame de Grâce on Easter Sunday appears to have…
WORLDWIDE – Sri Lanka Easter massacre highlights how Christian persecution is on the rise across the world
FoxNews | Caleb Parke | Apr. 23, 2019 A blood-spattered statue of Jesus from the St. Sebastian church in Sri Lanka, after Islamic militants bombed the church in an Easter…
WORLDWIDE – Churches Have Become The #1 Target For Hate Attacks
The bombings in Sri Lanka have once again put a spotlight on the rising tide of violence against Christians all over the world. According to Open Doors USA, an average…
SRI LANKA – Sri Lanka Identifies Radical Imam Suspected of Easter Bombings
Apr. 22, 201 | John Hayward No individual or group has made a formal claim of responsibility as of Monday morning for the horrific Easter Sunday bombings in Sri Lanka,…
NIGERIA – 10 die, 30 injured in NSCDC official, Gombe Boys’ Brigade clash
Punch Nigeria | Apr. 22, 2019 A survivor of Gombe Easter Day face-off between ECWA Boys' Brigade and NSCDC official. Photo: Chima Azubuike Chima Azubuike, Gombe Ten persons reportedly died…
SRI LANKA – Sri Lanka Bombings Live Updates: Police Warned That Churches Were Targets
New York Times | Apr. 21, 2019 As Christians in Sri Lanka gathered on Sunday morning to celebrate Easter Mass, powerful explosions ripped through three churches packed with worshipers, leaving…
NIGERIA – Nigeria at breaking point, sinking deeper into abyss of disrepair – Bishop Kukah tells Buhari
Nigerian Eye | Apr. 21, 2019 The Catholic Bishop, Sokoto Diocese, Matthew Hassan Kukah, has observed that killings in 20 out of 36 states of the federation and other abnormalities…
U.K. – Crackdown on Christian persecution: Theresa May’s vow to stand up for religious groups
Express UK | David Maddox | Apr. 21, 2019 The words of the Prime Minister, the daughter of a Church of England vicar, come as millions of Christians are facing…
NIGERIA – Muslim Fulani Herdsmen Massacre Christians after Baby Dedication in Nigeria – Morningstar News
Morning Star News | Nigeria | Apr. 18, 2019 JOS, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – Muslim Fulani herdsmen killed 17 Christians who had gathered after a baby dedication at a church…
EUROPE – Churches Desecrated in Ongoing Attacks Across Europe
CBN | Christian Ellis | Apr. 16, 2019 Across Europe, there has been a growing rise in attacks on churches. Countries like France and Germany have seen a spike in…
OPINION – Christianity Burns
Posted on April 15, 2019 by Mark Mallett A poster image cut from a magazine published after the French Revolution Because I love you, I want to show you what…
RELEASE – Attacks on French Churches Constitute a Warning
Save the Persecuted Christians: Unless We Stand Up for Persecuted Christians, What Is Happening There Will Come Here For Immediate Release | April 15, 2019 CONTACT: Hamilton Strategies, Media@HamiltonStrategies.com, WASHINGTON—The…
PAKISTAN – Christian girl kidnapped, raped and forcibly converted is freed
It is not correct that I converted to Islam by my choice, I was forced under threat. I never gave up my hope. I kept praying to God and I…
USA – South Carolina church vandalized with ‘submit to God thru Islam’ on Palm Sunday: police
FOX News | Apr. 15, 2019 A South Carolina church had three of its 125-year-old windows broken and was vandalized with Islamic-themed graffiti Sunday hours after celebrating Palm Sunday. "Submit…
EUROPE – European Churches: Vandalized, Defecated On, and Torched “Every Day”
by Raymond Ibrahim April 14, 2019 at 5:00 am In February, vandals desecrated and smashed crosses and statues at Saint-Alain Cathedral in Lavaur, France, and mangled the arms of a…
ENGLAND – U.K. considers linking foreign aid to persecution of Christians
WND.com | Apr. 6, 2019 The United Kingdom’s foreign secretary is urging Parliament to withhold aid to nations in which Christians are persecuted. “I think we should do more for the…
GERMANY – German on trial over death of 5-year-old Yazidi slave girl
Washington Post | David Rising | AP | April 9 27-year-old German Jennifer W. covers her face as she arrives at a court in Munich, southern Germany, Tuesday, April 9, 2019.…
INDIA – Mob of Hindu Radicals Beat Nuns, Destroy Catholic School in India
Breitbart | Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D. | Apr. 2, 2019 A mob of some 200 Hindu radicals demolished a Catholic school in Tamil Nadu this past week and stripped some…
FRANCE – Thugs set fire to churches and smear poo on walls amid warnings France’s Christian heritage is under attack from ‘militant secularism’
The Sun U.K. | Apr. 6, 201 Figures show 875 churches in France were vandalised last year CHURCHES across France have been set on fire and poo smeared on walls…
CHINA – China offers Cash for Informing on Christians
The Chinese Government is offering cash rewards to people who inform on underground churches. One city is offering more than £1,000 to those who can identify ‘unofficial’ places of worship.…
RUSSIA – Russia suspends activities of Baptist and Pentecostal theological seminaries
The main theological training centres of the Pentecostal Union and the Baptist Union in Russia have been forced to stop their activities. Evangelical Focus | Forum 18 News | Apr.…
NIGERIA – Stop the Nigerian Genocide of Christians
Secure Freedom Minute | Frank Gaffney | Apr. 3, 2019 This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. A long-running and increasingly genocidal campaign to kill and drive out…
WORLDWIDE – Cardinal Sarah says defending migrants is a ‘false exegesis’ of the Gospels
The Tablet U.K. | Apr. 1, 2019 The Church should not support “this new form of slavery” because the West, with its low birth rate, risked disappearing, he argued. “If…
CHINA – China ramps up religious suppression with bishop’s arrest
The Tablet UK | Apr. 2, 2019 A Chinese bishop is back in detention, along with his vicar general, amid a long-running dispute between a group of Beijing-affiliated priests and…
RELEASE – Save the Persecuted Christians Urges U.S. Government to Also Protect Christians in China
For Immediate Release | April 2, 2019 With Trade Deals and Focuses on Fentanyl, STPC Reminds Leaders Not to Forget About Persecuted Brothers and Sisters in Christ in ChinaWASHINGTON—Save the…
FRANCE – Macron’s France: Average of Three Church Attacks Per Day
Breitbart | Chris Tomlinson | March 30, 2019 French churches are coming increasingly under attack with an average of nearly three churches per day targeted for vandalism alone over the…
NIGEIRA – 40 feared killed as gunmen attack Zamfara communities
Daily Nigerian | March 31, 2019 At least 40 people are feared killed in Shinkafi Local Government Area of Zamfara State, following attack by armed bandits. DAILY NIGERIAN gathered that…
INDIA – Police in India File Charges against Pastors for Refuting False Account of Attack, Sources Say
Morningstar News | March 21, 2019 Siddhivinayak Temple in Siddhatek, Maharashtra state, India. (Wikipedia, Borayin Maitreya Larios) HYDERABAD, India (Morning Star News) – Three pastors in western India have been criminally…
PAKISTAN – Christian Mother in Pakistan Forcibly Converted, Married and Tortured
Morningstar News | March 26, 2019 Screen shot of Naveed Iqbal and his wife describing ordeal on video he uploaded to Facebook. (Morning Star News) LAHORE, Pakistan (Morning Star News) –…
NIGERIA – Christian Woman Raped, Killed as Herdsmen Attack Two Villages in Nigeria
Morningstar News | March 28, 2019 Nasarawa state, Nigeria. (Wikipedia) JOS, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – Muslim Fulani herdsmen attacked two predominantly Christian villages in north-central Nigeria after beating, raping and…
NEW ZEALAND – Women face protests for donning hijab
Daily Mail | March 26, 2019 New Zealand women who wear a headscarf in solidarity with Muslim women have faced a backlash from campaigners who say it is not 'empowering'. …