LEBANON – Lebanon’s Christians threatened, need US help
FOX News | Nina Shea | Nov. 16, 2019 Lebanon’s 1 million to 2 million Christians face dire threats as their country hurtles toward economic collapse and political anarchy. Catholics, Orthodox…
CHINA – New rules threaten church property in northern China
UCA News | Nov. 4, 2019 Catholics in China are increasingly worried that church buildings that do not have permits aligned with strict new religious regulations will be deemed illegal…
MIDDLE EAST – The Impossible Future of Christians in the Middle East
The Atlantic | Emma Green | May 23, 2019 The call came in 2014, shortly after Easter. Four years earlier, Catrin Almako’s family had applied for special visas to the…
SYRIA – Syriac Christians see Turkey’s safe zone plans an existential threat
Syriac Christians, a religious group in Syria, reject the creation of a safe zone Turkey plans to establish in northern Syria due to Ottoman atrocities in the past, sociologist Amy Austin Holmes said in the…
PALESTINIAN CHRISTIANS – A Minority Threatened by Boycotts
Algemeiner | by Douglas Sandoval | March 18, 2019 A pro-BDS demonstration. Photo: Wikimedia Commons. For the ever-dwindling minority of Christians who remain in the Palestinian territories, many are recluses…
INDIA – Family in India Continues to Worship Despite Warnings and Attack
International Christian Concern | March 7, 2019 “I was terrified for a moment when I saw a group of people with wooden sticks furiously making their way into the church,”…
UGANDA – Mother and Daughter Disowned for Converting to Christianity
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…
INDIA – Worship Service in Uttar Pradesh Disrupted and Threatened by Radical Mob
International Christian Concern | Dec. 4, 2018 On Sunday, December 2, a mob of 150 Hindu radicals broke into a private hall being used to conduct a Christian worship service…
INDIA – Tribal Movement in India Joins Hindu Radicals to Persecute Christians
International Christian Concern | Nov. 17, 2018 A tribal movement, Advasi Ho Samaj, under the influence of Hindu extremists persuaded villagers that they must drive Christian families out of their…
KYRGYZSTAN – Young Kyrgyz Christian Hospitalised, While his Attackers Go Free
World Watch Monitor | Nov. 14, 2018 A young Protestant in Kyrgyzstan has been left with a fractured jaw after being attacked by three men, Forum 18 reports. Eldos Sattar uuly,…