IRAQ & SYRIA – The Extinction of Christians in the Middle East
Aug. 18, 2019 | Gatestone Institute | By Giulio Meotti Convert, pay or die. Five years ago, that was the "choice" the Islamic State (ISIS) gave to Christians in Mosul,…
WORLDWIDE – Why Christian Women are the Most Persecuted Group in the World
Aug. 15, 2019 | Christian Broadcast News | Chelsea Patterson Sobolik COMMENTARY “Christian women are the most persecuted group in the world.” The first time I heard that statistic, I…
WORLDWIDE – Why Christian Women are the Most Persecuted Group in the World
CBN News | Chelsea Patterson Sobolik | Aug. 15, 2019 COMMENTARY “Christian women are the most persecuted group in the world.” The first time I heard that statistic, I was…
BURKINA FASO – An Appeal for Burkina Faso
Aug. 15, 2019 | Juicy Ecumenism | By Scott Morgan Since January 2019, twenty people have been killed and several churches have been destroyed by Islamist forces operating in the…
SRI LANKA – 176 children lost one or both parents in Sri Lanka Easter bombings
WorldWatch Monitor | Aug. 12, 2019 Woman kneels at altar, St Anthony’s shrine, Colombo where 54 died on Easter Sunday, 2019 (Credit: World Watch Monitor) At least 176 children lost…
CHINA – Sichuan Church Condemns Forced Lawyer Appointment | Persecution
Aug. 12, 2019 | International Christian Concern Imprisoned Pastor Wang Yi Continues to Face Legal Persecution International Christian Concern (ICC) has learned that on August 10, Early Rain Covenant Church…
NIGERIA – 8,000 children abducted by Boko Haram—pray for the children of Nigeria
OpenDoors USA | Aug. 12, 2019 On June 17, two girls and one boy walked into a tea hall in northern Nigeria. They were wearing suicide vests. When the vests…
SYRIA – Kurdish-Syrian ‘feminists’ form giant human shield to resist Turkish incursion
Aug. 9, 2019 | FoxNews | Hollie McKay When the threat of an attack looms, scores of Kurdish women in every major township in their carved out canton of Rojava…
CAMEROON – Militants cut off the ears of women in horrific attack on Christian village
Aug. 8, 2019 | Christianity Today Women from a Christian village in Cameroon recover after having their ears chopped off by members of Boko Haram(Photo: Open Doors) The barbarism of…
NIGERIA – Nigerian Church Leader Calls for Gov’t Protection After Gunmen Kill Pastor, Abduct His Wife
Aug. 8, 2019 | Christian Post | By Steve Warren A Nigerian pastor was reportedly killed and his wife abducted for ransom by unknown assailants Sunday evening while traveling on…
NIGERIA – President Buhari Sends Strong Warning To Catholic Bishops
Aug. 7, 2019 | Yaahoo Journalist Buhari and Catholic Bishops President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday warned Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria (CBCN) against creating panic among Nigerians through their accusation…
CHINA – China removes ‘Bible,’ ‘God,’ ‘Christ’ from children’s classics like ‘Robinson Crusoe’
Aug. 6, 2019 | The Christian Post | Leah MarieAnn Klett In efforts to bring Christianity further under government control, authorities in China have erased the words "Bible," "God" and…
NIGERIA – Terrorism in Nigeria
Aug. 6, 2019 | Douglas Burton | Washington Times | Analysis/Opinion Americans are reeling from horrific misuse of assault weapons in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, whereas in Nigeria…
NIGERIA – Catholic Priest Saved by Neighbors in Kasuwan Magani
Aug. 5, 2019 | War Desk News By Reuben Buhari (Kasuwan Magani, Nigeria) Terrorists armed with assault rifles attempted to assassinate a popular Catholic priest here but were beaten back…
NIGERIA – Christian rights groups urge caution in response to reports of Leah Sharibu’s death
Christian Today | Aug. 5, 2019 Christian human rights organisations are continuing to hope that a teenager being held by a faction of the Boko Haram terrorist group is still…
PAKISTAN – Christian girl kidnapped, forced into Islamic marriage in Pakistan
Aug. 2, 2019 | Samuel Smith | Christian Post The parents of a 14-year-old Pakistani Christian girl who was abducted in July and forced into an Islamic marriage are now…
NIGERIA – Leah Sharibu: Nigerian US based journalist slams Buhari
Aug. 2, 2019 | The Sun Nigeria ...Says President insensitive to nation's security challenges Magna Faith Krimi in African fabrics and Isha Isatu Sesay A Nigerian diaspora leader and media…
PAKISTAN – Young Christian Boy Beaten to Death by Muslim Employer
Aug 1, 2019 | Persecution News 08/01/2019 Pakistan (International Christian Concern) – Badil, a ten-year-old Christian Pakistani boy, was working at factory to care for his mother and two brothers,…
INDIA – Reporting Persecution to Police a Vanishing Option for Christians in India
July 30, 2019 | Morning Star News Pastor Shelton Viswanathan was attacked in Sheohar District, Bihar state, India. (Morning Star News) HYDERABAD, India (Morning Star News) – Persecution of Christians in…
RELEASE – Save the Persecuted Christians, Leah Foundation and International Committee on Nigeria Call for ‘Measured Response’ to Unconfirmed Reports of Leah Sharibu’s Death
July 29, 2019 | For Immediate Release Dr. Gloria Puldu, info@leah-foundation.org WASHINGTON—Disturbing reports over the weekend claimed kidnapped Christian Nigeria schoolgirl Leah Sharibu has been killed in captivity. But those…
CHINA – China Court Upholds 7 Year Prison Sentence Against US-based Christian Pastor
July 27, 2019 | CBN News | Andrea Morris Pastor John Cao breaks a ground on a new school in Wa State, Myanmar. The prominent Chinese pastor was detained by…
CHINA – Chinese Court Upholds Pastor John Cao’s Prison Sentence
Sentence Upheld After Repeated Delays on Appeal Hearing (International Christian Concern) – International Christian Concern (ICC) has learned that on July 25, a court in China’s Yunnan province announced its…
CHINA – China Adds Charge against Pastor, Coerces Christians to Accuse Him Falsely, Sources Say
July 24, 2019 | Morning Star News Early Rain Covenant Church members in Chengdu, Sichuan Province. (China Aid) Authorities in China have added “illegal business activities” to the subversion charge…
PAKISTAN – Pakistan court frees pastor charged with blasphemy
Pakistan court frees pastor charged with blasphemyJadoon Masih was allegedly badly mistreated while in custody before being granted bail Pakistani Islamists hold a poster displaying a portrait of Asia Bibi,…
NIGERIA – Nigerian Christians plead for U.S. help in face of religiously driven violence
Washington Times | Guy Taylor | July 7, 2019 The horror that enveloped Rebecca Sharibu’s world in early 2018 when her 14-year-old daughter, Leah, was kidnapped by Boko Haram militants…
NIGERIA/USA – 3 Nigerian Women Beg for US to Help Stop Persecution of Christians
https://youtu.be/PEdLplf5rcA The Stream | Carmel Kookogey | July 2, 2019 | Video at The Stream After 110 Nigerian girls were kidnapped by Boko Haram terrorists in February 2018, all but…
ADVISORY – Nigeria Crisis Delegation Truthsquads Nigerian Vice President’s ‘Come-to-Jesus’ Meeting with Mike Pence
***MEDIA ADVISORY*** | June 26, 2019 Courageous Victims of Jihadist Violence Challenge the False, but Official ‘Farmers-vs.-Herdsmen’ Narratives of the Nigerian Government and the U.S. State Department WASHINGTON—On Wednesday, June…
NIGERIA – Nigeria: Christian teen girl remains in Boko Haram captivity for refusing to deny Jesus Christ
“16-year-old Leah Sharibu, a Christian girl from the town of Dapchi, Nigeria, remains in the monstrous hands of the Islamic terror group Boko Haram – which keeps Leah in its…
NIGERIA – Jesus Appears to Entire Group of 72 Christians About to be Killed
The Incredible Miracle That Followed is Right Out of the Acts of the Apostles Breaking Christian News | June 24, 2019 But BarnabasAid says God intervened in power to save…
WORLDWIDE – Report: Christian Persecution 2019 a Scourge of ‘Mammoth Proportions
June 2019 is an “especially menacing time” for Christians both on the domestic and international fronts, writes Christian persecution expert John L. Allen in a report Sunday. The U.S. Catholic…
NIGERIA – Christian Teen’s Contagious Courageous Stand, a ‘Hostage for Life’ for Refusing to Deny Jesus
CBN News | John Jessup | June 19, 2019 WASHINGTON – Until this week, Rebecca Sharibu never set foot outside of her village in northern Nigeria. Helpless and heartbroken, she…
RELEASE – Save the Persecuted Christians Hosts Rebecca Sharibu, Mom of Leah, a Kidnapped Schoolgirl, in D.C. This Week
***NEWS RELEASE*** | June 18, 2019 Mother of Boko Haram Captive Pleads with U.S. Government to Help Free Her 16-Year-Old Daughter; Millions of Nigerian Children Like Leah Are Terrified to…
ETHIOPIA – Ethiopia: Pressure on churches building with evangelical church told to vacate after ten years
An evangelical church in central Ethiopia has been ordered to vacate its building, 10 years after it started meeting there, and churches elsewhere in the region say pressure is increasing…
NIGER – Muslim Mob Burns Christian Church
A mob of Muslim activists ransacked and set fire to a Christian church in Niger this weekend to protest the arrest of an influential imam. On Saturday night, a large…
NIGERIA – Nigeria’s Christian community slowly being erased as militants step up vicious killings, kidnappings
Leah has been held captive by Boko Haram in Nigeria since early 2018 for refusing to renounce her Christian faith(Save the Persecuted Christians) It has been almost 18 long and…
NIGERIA – Kebbi’s female Acting Chief Judge petitions NJC over Gov. Bagudu’s refusal to confirm her for “being Christian”
The acting Chief Judge of Kebbi State, Elizabeth Asabe Karatu, has written a petition to the National Judicial Council over Governor Atiku Bagudu’s refusal to confirm her as substantive chief…
VIDEO – The Uncomfortable Truth of Genocide in Nigeria
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBQmQ5lp3sU&t=26shttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnB-ozr3GNM&feature=youtu.be Witnesses to Violence Denounce the Fiction of a Farmer-Herdsmen Narrative ***ADVISORY*** FACEBOOK LIVESTREAM For Immediate Release | June 12, 2019 Briefing Today 2200 Rayburn HOB 2:30 p.m. Members are…
NIGERIA – Nigerians describe horrors of Fulani atrocities: ‘There is a genocide going on’
WASHINGTON — Nigerians from predominantly Christian tribes in Nigeria visited the United States this week to share how their tribes are now “homeless” and “sleeping under the skies” after recent…
NIGERIA – Nigerian ‘genocide’: Unborn babies ‘slaughtered like chickens,’ entire tribes left homeless
Christian Post | Samuel Smith | June 11, 2019 WASHINGTON — Nigerians from predominantly Christian tribes in Nigeria visited the United States this week to share how their tribes are…
VIDEO – Mother of Leah Sharibu, “Slave for Life” for Not Renouncing Christianity, on June 11 Panel to Discuss Terrorist Violence In Nigeria
https://youtu.be/KYnRZ8TEHhw?t=210 June 10, 2019 | MEDIA ADVISORY Save the Persecuted Christians and Heritage Foundation Event ‘Insecurity in Nigeria: The Victims Speak’ Will Expose Violence in Nigeria That Has Devolved into…