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A Christian convert from Islam has been sentenced to death by the Court of Appeal in Misrata, north-west Libya.
The man became a Christian around four years ago, and has been arrested several times since then by Libyan militias who act as...
At least eight Christians have been killed by Islamic State (IS)-affiliated terrorists in attacks across northern Mozambique in September.
Six were killed in three attacks in three days in Nampula Province.
On 6 September terrorists from IS-affiliated organisation Ahlu Sunnah Wa-Jama,...
An Egyptian Christian father and son have been shot dead by Islamist terrorists in the Sinai peninsula.
The shooting happened outside the village of Gelbana, near the town of al-Qantara Sharq in mid-west Sinai, on 30 August.
Salama Moussa Waheeb and his son...
The Supreme Court of Pakistan in Islamabad has granted bail to three Christians charged with “blasphemy” in separate cases.
Sanitary worker Salamat Mansha Masih was bailed on 23 August. He was originally arrested in February 2021 while working for Lahore Waste Management...
An Iranian pastor and four Christian converts from Islam have lost their appeals against jail terms and fines imposed because of their involvement in “house churches”.
The court of appeal ruled that the defence had failed to meet the necessary criteria for...
Iranian authorities have detained a Christian couple at Evin Prison, Tehran.
Homayoun Zhaveh, 63, and his wife Sara Ahmadi, 44, were detained after responding to a summons by the prison’s administrative office on 13 August.
The couple had assumed they were being summoned...
The Supreme Court in Iran has refused three Christians a retrial following their convictions for “propaganda contrary to and disturbing to the holy religion of Islam”.
Iranian-Armenian “house church” pastor Anooshavan Avedian, 60, was sentenced in April 2022 to ten years in...
Islamist militants beheaded two Christian men during an attack on a minibus in northern Mozambique.
The attack took place on 30 July, near the village of Nova Zambézia in Macomia district, Cabo Delgado.
The killings were claimed by the Islamic State (IS) of Mozambique,...
A shell fired by the Myanmar military (Tatmadaw) killed a 13-year-old girl and her father at a camp for internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Demoso township, Kayah State, on Sunday 31 July.
The girl, Margaret, died instantly when struck on the...
Three Nigerian Christian women kidnapped as teenagers by Boko Haram Islamist terrorists from a school in Chibok eight years ago have been found.
They were recovered with their children by the Nigerian Army during operations against Boko Haram in Borno State...
