Save the Persecuted Christians | December 16, 2020 CONTACT:Hamilton Strategies, Media@HamiltonStrategies.com, Nick DiFazio, 610.584.1096, ext. 104, or Deborah Hamilton, ext. 102 Save the Persecuted Christians Applauds the Designation of Nigeria as a…
Christian Post | Anugrah Kumar | November 14, 2020 At least one person was injured and a chapel and several homes were ransacked in a predominately Christian village in northern…
For Immediate Release | November 10, 2020 ‘Christians Have a Responsibility to Inform Themselves’ WASHINGTON—Save the Persecuted Christians (STPC), a leading international human rights advocacy group which works on behalf of hundreds of…
DNA | Ravinder Singh Robin | November 2, 2020 Not only the abduction, forced conversion and marriages of minor girls of minority communities including Christian, Hindu and Sikhs in Pakistan continues unabated…
Christian Post | Jackson Elliott | October 28, 2020 A Sri Lankan pastor has been forced to shut down his church and end his ministry work after being detained by…
UCA News | October 26, 2020 A Christian man was shot dead and three people were injured when assailants entered a Pentecostal church and opened fire indiscriminately in India's Punjab…
Christian Post | Leah MarieAnn Klett | October 24, 2020 Suspected Hindu extremists set fire to a church in India’s Andhra Pradesh state, burning it to the ground because local…
Christian Post | Anugrah Kumar | October 12, 2020 Church groups and civil society leaders in India are protesting against the arrest of an 83-year-old Jesuit priest by the country’s…
Save the Persecuted Christians | October 11, 2020 Senators Demand “Targeted Sanctions” Against Indian Agencies and Officials Responsible for Increased Persecution of Minorities WASHINGTON—Save the Persecuted Christians, which advocates on behalf…
International Christian Concern | October 6, 2020 International Christian Concern (ICC) has learned that the Lahore High Court has acquitted Sawan Masih, a Christian man sentenced to death under Pakistan’s…
CHVN | Libby Giesbrech | September 27, 2020 Christians in a Sri Lankan village are being told by others in the village they cannot continue to worship. In late June,…
Frobes | Ewelina U. Ochab | September 27, 2020 In recent months, media outlets covered a number of stories involving young girls who have been abducted, forcibly converted, forcibly married…
Christian Post | Leah MarieAnn Klett | September 23, 2020 A church planter in India’s Maharashtra state was brutally killed by Hindu extremists after suffering years of abuse for his…
Faithwire | Andrea Morris | September 22, 2020 Police in northern India told a pastor to stop worshipping inside his home and forced him to sign a document assuring that…
Sabaat | Kashif Nawab | September 21, 2020 Nadeem Joseph died after being shot injured along with some family members in June this year in an apparent neighbourhood confrontation, even though…
TAB Media | September 20, 2020 A Christian mother of four was killed in July for refusing to let her daughter be raped by Hindu men. Two masked Hindus slit…
Christian Post | Leah MarieAnn Klett | September 11, 2020 Amid another crackdown on foreign aid, India has canceled six Christian organizations’ licenses to receive donations from outside the country…
International Christian Concern | September 11, 2020 In a recent interview with Aid to the Church in Need (ACN), Asia Bibi called on Pakistan’s Prime Minister to protect the country’s…
The Catholic Universe | September 10, 2020 In Pakistan, a 14-year-old girl and her family were forced into hiding after she escaped her abductor who forcibly married her. She escaped…
Rome Reports | September 9, 2020 Indian society is divided into different castes. At the bottom of the social hierarchy are the Dalits, traditionally considered unclean and untouchable. That's why…
Al Jazeera | Asad Hashim| September 8, 2020 A court in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore has sentenced a Christian man to death for having committed "blasphemy", his lawyer…
CBN News | George Thomas | August 31, 2020 Christians in India are facing horrific levels of violence from Hindu radical extremists. This deadly campaign coincides with an Indian…
Saint Charles | August 28, 2020 A 14-year-old Christian girl has escaped from the man a High Court in Pakistan ruled to be her husband and has gone to the…
Christian Post | Samuel Smith | August 27, 2020 An 18-year-old Christian servant in Pakistan was beaten for refusing her employers' demands to convert to Islam, according to her family…
International Christian Concern | August 27, 2020 International Christian Concern (ICC) learned that Maira Shahbaz, a 14-year-old Christian girl who was abducted and forcefully married to a Muslim man, has…
Forward Press | Goldy George | August 26, 2020 In 2008, Kandhamal, Odisha witnessed unprecedented hostility in which 56,000 people were left homeless, and 308 churches were destroyed, at least…
International Christian Concern | August 26, 2020 On August 21, Pastor Prasanna Kumar, whose name has been changed for security reasons, was attacked and brutally beaten by radical Hindu nationalists…
Frontline | Zaya Salam | August 18 2020 At least two reports by Christian organisations in India say that life has been precarious for the members of the minority community during…
Christian Post | Leah MarieAnn Klett | August 18, 2020 While praying, a Christian pastor and his family were brutally attacked by radical Hindu extremists wielding sharp weapons amid an uptick…
Christian Headlines | John Stonestreet & Roberto Rivera | August 17, 2020 In late July, the body of Pastor Balvinder Bagicha Bhatti was found on the side of the road…
Christian Post | Samuel Smith | August 13, 2020 A Christian man charged with blasphemy for making a theological argument on Facebook that Muslims deemed insulting toward the Islamic prophet…
International Christian Concern | August 13, 2020 It is now almost a year since the abduction of 14-year-old Huma Yuonnus. She was taken at gunpoint from her home by a…
International Christian Concern | August 6, 2020 International Christian Concern (ICC) has learned that the Lahore High Court has ordered Maria Shahbaz, a 14-year-old Christian girl who was abducted and…
Christianity Today | August 3, 2020 The persecution of Christians in India intensified to "alarming" levels in the first half of 2020, a human rights group reports. Hate crimes against…
Persecution Relief | July 29, 2020 ‘CHRISTIAN MINOR LYNCHED, WOMEN & MEN MURDERED, EXCOMMUNICATION IS AT ALL TIME HIGH, CHURCH BUILDINGS BURNED, PRIESTS ATTACKED, THE LIST GOES ON; ITS HIGH…
UCA | July 29, 2020 Two women were raped and killed among six Christians murdered for their faith in India in the first half of this year, according to a…
Christian Post | Leah MarieAnn Klett | July 22, 2020 Tribal animists in India brutally beat three Christian families before driving them from the village over the believers' refusal to…
Barnabas Fund | July 21, 2020 In the first half of 2020 the Evangelical Fellowship of India (EFI) recorded 135 cases of targeted violence and discrimination against Christians, including three murders, according…
International Christian Concern | July 17, 2020 In just over a month, four Christians, including a woman, a teenager, and a pastor, were killed in India because of their faith.…
UCA News | Saji Thomas, Kochi | July 14, 2020 Church leaders in India have condemned the murder of a Protestant minister, the third in less than a month in…