Two years after Islamist attacks on Christians in the Jaranwala area in Punjab Province, Pakistan, hopes for justice are dimming amid the ongoing sabotage of prosecution efforts, advocates say.
District administration in Chhattisgarh’s Dhamtari has ordered an investigation into a 115-year-old Christian hospital following complaints from Bajrang Dal, Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP) and other Hindutva organisations. The groups have accused the Bathena Christian Hospital of medical negligence and forced religious conversion.
The Embassy of the State of Eritrea refused to accept a letter advocating for the release of Christian leaders imprisoned in what is often called "the North Korea of Africa" for more than 20 years without charges, as demonstrators worldwide are calling attention to one of the world's worst violators of religious freedom.
Officials and Muslim clerics in a village in West Java Province, Indonesia, ordered the closure of a prayer house, expelled an evangelist and indefinitely halted all Christian activities there, media outlets reported.
The Uttarakhand Cabinet last Wednesday approved the Freedom of Religion (Amendment) Bill 2025, introducing some of the harshest penalties in India for “forced religious conversion,” including sentences ranging from three years to life imprisonment.
Many believers today misunderstand the purpose of testing and trials.
A Muslim who put his faith in Christ after receiving a vision in a mosque in Uganda was hospitalized after relatives beat him, demolished his home and abducted his wife and six children, sources said.
Six Christians remain imprisoned in horrific conditions in Eritrea since 2004, along with another arrested in 2005, all without charges, trial or access to an attorney, rights advocates say.
The rise in anti-Christian violence is both a sign of our culture’s spiritual darkness and, paradoxically, evidence of the Gospel’s continued power.
Amnesty International this week called for the annulment of the convictions of 11 Christians in Libya sentenced to prison under charges ranging from “insulting Islam” to calling for changes in principles of the constitution by promoting Christianity.
