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  • Somali Christians Find Danger Follows Them to Kenya

    One Christian left his native Somalia 10 years ago and another fled as Muslim extremists were bombing his house earlier this year, but both Somali converts from Islam feel they are still in danger in Kenya.

  • House Church Leaders Attacked Near Hanoi, Vietnam

    A gang of men attacked leaders of a Baptist house church network near Hanoi on Sunday (Nov. 13), leaving one pastor unconscious and seriously injuring several others, including women and teenage children.

  • Iranian Pastor on Death Row Under Pressure

    The mistreatment of a pastor in Iran awaiting a decision on his death sentence for refusing to recant his faith amounts to physical and psychological torture, a source close to the pastor’s family said.

  • Violence in Yobe State, Nigeria Aimed Mainly at Christians

    Violence in Yobe State, Nigeria Aimed Mainly at Christians

    They stormed this town in Yobe state, northern Nigeria like a swarm of bees, and at the end of their four-hour rampage, some 150 people had been killed – at least 130 of them Christians, according to church sources.

  • Turkey's Armenians Reconsecrate 16th Century Church Building

    Turkey's Armenians Reconsecrate 16th Century Church Building

    Just hours before a deadly 7.2 earthquake struck Turkey’s southeast on Oct. 23, well over 3,000 visitors crowded into an ancient Armenian cathedral in nearby Diyarbakir for Sunday mass.

  • Police Detain, Beat Converts from Islam in India

    Police in India’s Kashmir Valley detained and beat converts from Islam and were expected to arrest Christian workers after Muslim leaders alleged that Muslim youth were being “lured” to Christianity.

  • Three Christians Killed in Attacks in Nigeria’s Kaduna State

    It was a few minutes before 10 at night when the staccato sound of gunfire interrupted the serene worship of St. Joseph’s Catholic Church near Zonkwa, Kaduna state. When the chaos ended, two women lay dead and 12 people were wounded.

  • Christians in Malaysia Accept Ruling on Church Raid

    Following controversy over a raid on a church event in which Muslims were present, Christian leaders in Malaysia welcomed a sultan’s pronouncement that neither the Christians nor the state officers who disrupted the meeting would be prosecuted.

  • Attack on Church Compound in Kenya Kills Two, Wounds Three

    Suspected Islamic extremists with Somalia’s al Shabaab militia threw a grenade into the home of the church guard of an East Africa Pentecostal Church (EAPC) congregation outside Garissa, Kenya on Saturday night (Nov. 5), killing an 8-year-old girl and another member of the church, sources said.

  • Somali Muslims Cut, Beat Christian Unconscious in Kenya

    A Somali Christian in Kenya is nursing injuries after young Muslim men from his country beat him with iron rods and wooden clubs last week, leaving him unconscious at a church entryway.

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