PAKISTAN – Asia Bibi, Modern Confessor of the Faith
National Catholic Register |by Nina Shea | Sept. 16th, 2019 COMMENTARY: A drama of faithfulness, courage and perseverance, in which good ultimately triumphs. It is also a window into the…
IRAN: Christian convert starts one-year prison sentence
Middle East Concern | Sept. 4, 2019 Iranian Christians request prayer for convert Fatemeh Bakhteri (also known as Ailar), who has started serving a one-year prison sentence in Evin Prison…
STATEMENT – Nigerian Government Reports 16-Year-Old Christian Captive Leah Sharibu Is Alive
August 31, 2019 | ***STATEMENT*** Save the Persecuted Christians: ‘Leah Needs to Come Home’ WASHINGTON—Several Nigerian and global media outlets reported Saturday that kidnapped Christian Nigeria schoolgirl Leah Sharibu is…
PAKISTAN – Asia Bibi pleads for justice for victims of Pakistan’s harsh blasphemy laws as she plans to settle in Europe
Sunday Telegraph | Aug. 31, 2019 | Ben Farmer, Islamabad Waqar Gillani, Islamabad In her first ever newspaper interview, Asia Bibi said she had at times fallen into despair As…
NIGERIA – JUST IN: Leah Sharibu Still Alive, FG Negotiating Release
Amiloaded News | Aug. 31, 2019 Leah Sahribu taken captive by ISWAP/Boko Haram Feb. 19, 2018 The Presidency has dismissed speculation that Leah Sharibu, the Dapchi schoolgirl still held by…
RELEASE – Save the Persecuted Christians: Murder of Bible Translator in Cameroon Is Further Evidence of Need for U.S. Special Envoy in That Region
***STATEMENT*** August 29, 2019 | For Immediate Release Group Also Calls on Law Firm Squire Patton Boggs to Cease Representation of Cameroon and Others That Commit Atrocious Religious Liberty Violations…
RELEASE – Parents Battle Pakistani Justice System to Free 14-Year-Old Daughter Who Was Abducted and Forced Into Child Marriage
August 26, 2019 | For Immediate Release Save the Persecuted Christians Creates New ‘Warfare on Women’ Exhibit Telling Stories of Those Who Live Fractured Lives Because of Persecution WASHINGTON—The Christian…
ERITREA – Eritrea Arrests Another 150 Christians Between June and August | Persecution
Persecution | Aug. 23, 2019 08/23/2019 Eritrea (International Christian Concern) – Eritrea, one of the world’s worst violators of Human Rights, has again clamped down on Christians in their country.…
ERITREA – At least 150 Christians arrested in Eritrea clampdown
WorldWatch Monitor | Aug. 23, 2019 At least 150 Eritrean Christians were arrested by government officials during the last two months, with some of them held in an underground prison…
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…
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 – 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…
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…
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 – 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…
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…
NIGERIA – Christian Teen’s Contagious Courageous Stand, a ‘Hostage for Life’ for Refusing to Deny Jesus
CBN News | John Jessup | June 9, 2019 WASHINGTON – Until this week, Rebecca Sharibu never set foot outside of her village in northern Nigeria. Helpless and heartbroken, she…
CAR – 77-year-old French-Spanish nun beheaded in Central African Republic
Canadian Press | May 22,2019 BANGUI, Central African Republic — A 77-year-old French-Spanish nun who taught impoverished women and girls in volatile Central African Republic has been decapitated, local authorities…
CHINA – Undercover video reveals brutal treatment of Falun Gong prisoners inside Chinese labor camps
Now, never before seen undercover video given to FOX 11 is revealing what life is like for political prisoners inside of those Chinese labor camps. A California family is taking…
CHINA – Big trouble in little China
In recent weeks, a number of Chinese nationals were arrested in connection with alleged sham marriages with Pakistani women. Marriages between Pakistani women and Chinese men have come under heavy…
RELEASE – Pakistani Christian Girls Targeted by Traffickers from China Must Be Protected
***NEWS RELEASE*** | May 16, 2019 Brokers Aggressively Seek Out Girls, Even with Help of Government Officials WASHINGTON—According to a disturbing new report from the Associated Press, Christian girls like…
RELEASE – Leah Sharibu Turns 16 Today in Boko Haram Captivity
***NEWS RELEASE*** | May 14, 2019 Several Prayer Events Planned in Nigeria to #FreeLeahSharibu; Save the Persecuted Christians Encourages Americans to Also Speak Up for Leah WASHINGTON—Leah Sharibu’s 16th birthday…
CHINA – Chinese Sex Trade in Pakistan: Abuse of Christian Girls
That women and girls are being abused throughout Asia is sickening enough, and warrants immediate attention by the international community. But that Christian girls in particular are being targeted in…
STATEMENT: Save the Persecuted Christians Celebrates with Asia Bibi, as Freed Death Row Inmate Finds Safety in Canada
***STATEMENT*** |May 8, 2019 Other Christians, However, Are ‘Wasting Away in Pakistani Prisons’ on Charges of Blasphemy WASHINGTON—Late last year,Pakistani Christian woman Asia Bibi was acquitted on charges of blasphemy…
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…
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…