Swedish council bans prayers
A local council in Sweden has prohibited prayer in local council-run schools, care homes and offices. Premier reports that the municipality in Bromölla on the north-east coast of Skåne argued…
Hindu mob forces Christians to flee
Christian families have fled their homes in the Jharkhand state of India after threats from angry Hindus. According to Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW), seven families left Masiya Mahuwatoli village on…
Californian liberalism turns nasty
California is well known as one of the most liberal states in the US, but now that tolerance has turned to intolerance. The California State Assembly has passed a resolution…
Asia Bibi safely in Canada – but “no thanks to Foreign Office”
Campaigner Luke de Pulford has accused the Foreign Office of having a “blind spot” over suffering Christians, which could be seen in its treatment of Asia Bibi.
Bombed Sri Lanka church forgives the terrorists
THE leader of an evangelical church in Sri Lanka that was bombed on Easter Sunday has offered forgiveness to the attackers. Pastor Roshan Mahesen, who lost many members of his…
Marriage supporters celebrate teachers’ guidance U-turn
Last year the government sought to amend its guidance to prevent teachers in independent schools, including Christian faith schools, from defending traditional marriage. That guidance has now been changed, due…
Baroness Williams: “There is no criminal offence of hate speech”
‘Hate speech’ is not a crime in British law, contrary to all one hears in the media. This was confirmed by Baroness Williams, Minister of State for Countering Extremism, last…
Hunt blames political correctness for “near- genocidal” persecution of Christians
Political correctness has contributed to the failure to address the persecution of Christians around the world, says Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt, after hearing the interim findings of a review led…
“Think Hitler, not Mao”
The crackdown on Christians in China – which continues – has been compared to the Nazification of Germany in the 1930s by two prominent human rights leaders.
“Unwell” Asia Bibi locked up in house
Frustration over Asia Bibi’s detention in Pakistan was continuing as we went to press. Although acquitted of blasphemy charges after a decade in jail, including eight years on death row,…
Ten churches mobbed in Ethiopia
Local Muslims attacked ten church buildings of eight denominations in Halaba Kulito, a town in southern Ethiopia on 9 February, according to aid agencies Steadfast Global and Voice of the…
Herdsmen slaughter Nigerian believers
A devastating attack against Nigerian Christians has left at least 32 believers dead.
Family grieves for butchered dad
A convert to Christianity was dragged away from his six-year-old son by a gang of men who then smashed his head with a stone and virtually beheaded him.
Bomb attack victim still suffers
A young woman who lost her leg in a terrorist bomb attack has been told by doctors that she is too old for further corrective surgery.
Greece: Christian refugees “in fear of their lives”
Ex-Muslims have been assaulted and threatened in migrant camps Muslim converts to Christianity are being threatened and cut with knives in Greece’s migrant camps, a recent report from the International…