Nigeria: Survivors Desperately Seek Loved Ones In Jos Blast
By Obed Minchakpu One man rendered a widower by the Islamist suicide bombing at a Catholic church on Sunday (March 11) discovered his wife had been killed only after finding her severed hand with her...
View ArticleEgypt: Nuns Traumatized After School Attack
By Wayne King Two nuns in Upper Egypt faced “unimaginable fear” – with one later hospitalized over the emotional trauma –when 1,500 Muslim villagers brandishing swords and knives trapped them inside a...
View ArticleNigeria: Parents Torn Over Loss Of Daughter
By Obed Minchakpu Nearly seven months after their 24-year-old daughter disappeared during a wave of Islamic extremist violence here, Helen and Dakim Gyang Bot can only assume that the voice on the...
View ArticleLaos: Officials Arrest Five Christians In Southern Village
By Sarah Page Officials in a village in southern Laos on Sunday (March 25) arrested and detained five Christians during worship and charged them with leading a religious movement without official...
View ArticleSudan: Aerial Bombing Aims At Churches In Nuba Mountains
After Khartoum denied that it had bombed civilians earlier this month, Sudanese aerial strikes last week were aimed at church buildings and schools in Kauda, South Kordofan state, a humanitarian aid...
View ArticleKenya: Explosion At Christian Meeting Kills Boy, Woman, Wounds 30
By Simba Tian An 8-year-old boy died today from injuries after suspected Islamic extremists on Saturday (March 31) threw a grenade into a Christian revival meeting near Kenya’s coastal town of Mombasa...
View ArticleLaos: Officials Confiscate Church Buildings
By Sarah Page Lao officials on Thursday (April 5) confiscated and sealed a church building in southern Laos after holding a two-day seminar warning against religious belief, according to advocacy group...
View ArticleNigeria: Suicide Bomber Targets Churches In Kaduna
By Obed Minchakpu Churches celebrating Easter services were the targets of a suicide bomber who killed at least 38 people yesterday in Kaduna city in northern Nigeria, sources said. Security personnel...
View ArticlePakistan: Mother Of Infant Child Accused Of Blasphemy And Held In Jail
By Murad Khan The mother of a 6-month-old girl has been wrongly jailed for more than a month, as Pakistani authorities have failed to file a charge sheet within the mandatory 14-day period against the...
View ArticleIndia: Islamic Extremists Beat, Mock Christians
By Mahruaii Sailo Islamic extremists in India attacked a Christian prayer meeting in West Bengal state, beating a 65-year-old widow and other women less than a month after they helped drive a young...
View ArticlePakistan: Christian Acquitted Of ‘Blasphemy’ Charge
By Murad Khan A Pakistani Christian falsely charged with “blasphemy” after rescuing his 8-year-old nephew from a beating at the hands of Muslim boys has been cleared of the charge. Dildar Masih, a...
View ArticleNigeria: Bombers Attack Center In Christian Area Of Jos
By Obed Minchakpu One person was killed and nine others were injured last night after suspected Islamic extremists attacked a TV viewing center in a Christian area of Jos where a crowd had gathered to...
View ArticleChina Plans To Eradicate House Churches
By Sarah Page China’s government is engaged in a three-phase campaign to eradicate Protestant house churches, according to a statement released Friday (April 20) by the China Aid Association (CAA). The...
View ArticleBible School, Church Buildings Attacked In Sudan
Christians faced increased hostilities in Sudan over the past few weeks, culminating in an attack on a Christian compound in Khartoum by a throng of Muslim extremists armed with clubs, iron rods, a...
View ArticleMali: Kidnapped Swiss Christian Freed Amid Unrest
By Damaris Kremida Separatist Islamist rebels released a Swiss Christian woman kidnapped by a private militia on April 15 amid political turmoil in Timbuktu, Mali, according to a Swiss foreign ministry...
View ArticleBurma Reforms Offer No Respite For Ethnic Christians
By Vishal Arora Amid global euphoria over reforms in Burman-majority parts of Burma, life has changed little for more than 3 million Christians and other minorities left to suffer from one of the...
View ArticleLawyer Of Iranian Pastor On Death Row Faces Prison
By Damaris Kremida The main defense lawyer for Iranian pastor Yousef Nadarkhani, who is appealing a death sentence, may be facing imminent imprisonment for defending the rights of Iranians, according...
View ArticleSudanese Authorities Close Christian Offices In South Darfur
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, sources said. Agents from the Sudanese National...
View ArticlePakistan: Life Sentences For Blasphemy Overturned
By Murad Khan A court acquitted a Christian couple of “blasphemy” charges yesterday, overturning their life sentences, their lawyer said. Chaudhry Naeem Shakir told Compass that Justice Mazhar Ali...
View ArticlePakistan: Bhatti Murder Case Increasingly Murky
By Murad Khan The investigation into the murder of Pakistan’s only cabinet-level Christian, Shahbaz Bhatti, has become mired amid suspicions of a possible cover-up, sources said. Lax investigations, a...
View ArticleIndonesia Sees Uptick In Church Closures, Attacks
By Vishal Arora and Victor Ambarita The number of violations of Christians’ religious rights in Indonesia reached 40 in the first five months of the year, nearly two-thirds the amount of anti-Christian...
View ArticleNigeria: Allegations Swirl Around Suicide Bomb Attack
By Abdias Pasoville Amid allegations that soldiers were responsible for at least eight of 21 deaths after the suicide bombing of two churches here on Sunday (June 3), sources told Compass that most of...
View ArticleIran: Authorities Shut Church In Tehran
By Damaris Kremida Authorities in Iran this week ordered the closure of a church in the capital, Tehran, amid a government campaign to crack down on the few recognized churches offering Farsi-speaking...
View ArticleEgypt: Gutted Church Building Leaves Copts With Debt
By Wayne King A hasty, inadequate renovation of a church building that Salafi Muslims largely gutted a year ago has left the congregation with staggering debt from additional repairs, church members...
View ArticleSudan: Convert From Islam Loses Wife, Children
By Simba Tian A year ago Mohammed Khidir Khalil was glad his family had obtained refugee status in Egypt after fleeing Islamic hostilities in Sudan. The 38-year-old Christian was also heartened that...
View ArticleAzerbaijan: Appeals Judge To Decide Fate Of Church
By Wayne King A Christian congregation in Azerbaijan is waiting pensively to see if a judge will uphold a court order that banned its right to meet and “liquidated” the church. “They are upset, but at...
View ArticleVietnam: Officials Destroy Two New Church Buildings
Vietnamese officials in Muong Cha district, Dien Bien Province, destroyed two new church buildings of ethnic minority Hmong Christians this month and threatened to tear down a third. The Ho He Church,...
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India: Christians Tormented With Music, Then Attacked
For months, a group of Hindu extremists in southern India had been blasting high-volume movie music at the prayer meetings of a local Christian ministry. In early July, the harassment crossed the line...
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Pakistan: 14 Year Old Rimsha Masih Found Innocent Of Blasphemy
The case against Rimsha Masih, the teenage Pakistani Christian girl, has today been dropped by the court in the Pakistani capital Islamabad. Rimsha, who was arrested in August on suspicion of...
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Nigeria Attacks: Blair Launches Faith-Based Program To Promote Religious...
Amidst continuing attacks on Churches and Christian communities in Northern Nigeria, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Tony Blair has launched a faith-based programme to promote religious...
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