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Although many Muslim leaders openly articulate their efforts as part of a larger picture—one that culminates in the resurrection of a caliphate adv...

Last Tuesday, May 8, two pastors were burned to death in Jomvu area Mombasa, Kenya.

Police arrested five suspects who may have instigated the atta...

Security agents in Sudan's South Darfur state have closed down the Nyala offices of the Sudan Council of Churches (SCC) and relief group Sudan Aid,...

The Burmese military continues to carry out "serious human rights abuses" including rape, torture and killings of predominantly Christian ethnic gr...

The Burmese military continues to carry out "serious human rights abuses" including rape, torture and killings of predominantly Christian ethnic gr...

Islamists' growing clout in Egypt in the wake of a popular revolt, which toppled long-standing president Hosni Mubarak in February last year, has t...

"We don't know if our daughter is still alive," Magda told ICC during a recent visit to Egypt. "We haven't seen or heard from her in five years... ...

"Asia Bibi, a Christian mother of five, sentenced to death on accusation of blasphemy, waiting for her appeal in Lahore High court against death se...

Forty-four countries are now calling on the government of Eritrea, a country in the Horn of Africa, to halt the practice of jailing and torturing C...

On April 18, 2007, three Christians were bound to their chairs, tortured, and stabbed repeatedly at a Bible print shop in Malatya -- their throats ...

New York-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) has accused government forces of going on a killing spree in opposition areas at the same time that officia...

The so-called Arab Spring has given a big boost to radical Islamists like the Muslim Brotherhood. For Christians, it's been a much different story....

A grenade explosion yesterday killed a 27-year-old university student at a church in Nairobi and injured 16 people, sources said. Kelvin Walumba wa...

An eyewitness, who said he narrowly escaped death in the hands of the killers, said the attackers came with the aim to wipe out every member of the...

An eyewitness, who said he narrowly escaped death in the hands of the killers, said the attackers came with the aim to wipe out every member of the...

Gunmen who stormed an early morning Christian worship service in Bayero University Kano, BUK, yesterday, killing two professors, five academic doct...

Separatist Islamist rebels released a Swiss Christian woman kidnapped by a private militia on April 15 amid political turmoil in Timbuktu, Mali, ac...

It could hardly have come at a worse moment for a ruling Communist party whose public affairs seem to resemble a mafia war more each day. The extra...

BEIRUT

UN cease-fire monitors toured a rebel-held town in central Syria Sunday with army defectors, while government troops stormed and shelled a D...

As war looms between Sudan and South Sudan, Christians of southern origin living in Sudan fear retribution from its Islamic government.

As of April...

Nigerian officials say a suicide car bombing near a church on Easter Sunday killed at least 36 people and wounded dozens more in the country's nort...

Nigerian officials say a suicide car bombing near a church on Easter Sunday killed at least 36 people and wounded dozens more in the country's nort...

Syria's President Bashar al-Assad has agreed to an April 10 deadline to start implementing a peace plan proposed by UN-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan...

Islamabad - "In Pakistan there is justice only for Muslims, justice is denied Hindus. Kill me here, now, in court. But do not send me back to the ...

Recent episodes of ethnic intolerance against the Serbian minority exacerbate conditions in a country which is increasingly an "Islamic island" in ...

Youcef Nadarkhani who faces execution for refusing to abandon his faith in Christ and embrace Islam was still alive Thursday, March 29. "Though we ...

Although Christianity has existed in India for more than 2,000 years, only 2% of its population is Christian, a great minority amidst the remaining...

Almost a year ago a wave of revolutions started in the Middle East, with Tunisia the central country where the first regime tumbled. Called the "Ar...

A shootout in northeast Nigeria Sunday claimed six lives, three of them members of the Islamist sect, Boko Haram, suspected of cultivating links wi...

While the world is raising concerns over rights abuses by anti-government forces in Syria's ongoing violent conflict, few would even know that mili...

Three recent attacks against Christians in India reflect an increase in animosity against believers throughout the country. In Kerala state, a past...

According to observers, the Christian community in Afghanistan could be targets of retaliation after a U.S. soldier allegedly killed 16 Afghan civi...

Hundreds of thousands of people originating from the mainly Christian, mainly African, South Sudan are effectively being forced out of Sudan, havin...

In Pakistan, Christians are constantly having to go to jail because they have allegedly offended Islam. As the aid organization for persecuted Chri...

Activists presented a petition in March 2012 to the United Nations Human Rights Council calling on Pakistan to free a Christian mother of five from...

Aksu, Xinjiang. A house church in far west China's region of Xinjiang that has been meeting for nearly two decades was raided Sunday by police, who...

South Sudan, JUBA— The "ethnic cleansing" that Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir has undertaken against black Africans in the Nuba Mountains is als...

South Sudan, JUBA— The "ethnic cleansing" that Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir has undertaken against black Africans in the Nuba Mountains is als...

Millions of Egyptian Copts feel they have been left vulnerable after the death of their spiritual leader, Pope Shenouda III, head of Egypt's Coptic...

Homs is the third largest city in Syria;its population is around 17-18% Christian. Christians desperate to flee the besieged Syrian city of Homs ar...

Although the Salafists are a small minority group there, they are extremely active and threatening the country's individual freedoms. In a clash be...

A United States Congressional delegation and other officials have gathered in Hungary's capital Budapest to remember Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenb...

LAOS. In Dec. 2011 officials forced Christians in a Lao village to give up their faith in order to bury a family member in the village graveyard, a...

Nigeria's militant Islamist group Boko Haram -- which has caused havoc in Africa's most populous country through a wave of bombings -- is fighting ...

SULEJA, Nigeria — Suspected Islamic extremists detonated a bomb outside a church building here on Sunday (Feb. 19), two months after Boko Haram Isl...

Nigeria's militant Islamist group Boko Haram -- which has caused havoc in Africa's most populous country through a wave of bombings -- is fighting ...

Christians in Sudan have complained of a spike in threats against them by South Sudanese militias rebelling against the new South Sudan government....

Iran again ordered the death penalty for jailed Pastor Youcef Nadarkhani for refusing to recant his faith in Christ and return to Islam raising fea...

Iran again ordered the death penalty for jailed Pastor Youcef Nadarkhani for refusing to recant his faith in Christ and return to Islam raising fea...

A Pakistani Christian woman convicted of blasphemy and sentenced to death has successfully appealed a court's ruling, just as a petition demanding ...