An estimated 15 Christians were among at least 40 Rohingya refugees from Myanmar (Burma) detained in New Delhi that the Indian navy on May 8 threw into the sea, the AP reported.
Besides questioning and threatening friends of an Iranian-Armenian pastor re-arrested for practicing his faith, authorities in Iran have detained his wife and put her in solitary confinement, according to an advocacy group.
Authorities last week approved a demonstration by Muslims against the presence of Christians in a town of southern Mauritania that resulted in protesters exhuming the body of a Christian and dragging it through the streets, sources said.
Christians are among hundreds of thousands of Afghan refugees that Pakistan was to begin forcibly repatriating on Tuesday (April 1) to Afghanistan, where the ruling Taliban has asserted they will kill any Christian, sources said.
A prison officer in Iran beat an imprisoned Christian convert for requesting medical treatment for a heart condition, according to advocacy group Article 18.
Iran’s Revolutionary Court sentenced a pregnant Christian woman to 16 years in prison on Saturday (March 8) and also handed harsh punishments to two other converts from Islam, a rights group reported.
Christian converts from Islam are among migrants from countries hostile to Christianity who have been deported from the United States – initially to Panama, where they are isolated before possible deportation to their home countries, according to The New York Times.
On June 1, an 18-year-old, middle-class Coptic Christian woman in Upper Egypt went to school as usual – but was then caught in a web of Islamist students, administrators, police and sheikhs seeking to forcibly convert her and marry her to a Muslim.
Evangelicals in Ukraine do not favor a peace agreement that grants territory to Russia, as the Russian military already seeks to end the evangelical presence in the areas it controls, according to sources from Ukraine.
Two Christians who were released from prison in Iran in 2022 and 2023 respectively were re-arrested on Thursday (Feb. 6), advocacy group Article 18 reported.
Vice President J.D. Vance and actor Rainn Wilson addressed the International Religious Freedom Summit in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday (Feb. 5), giving the gathering a high-profile boost in the cause of religious liberty.
Participants in what organizers called the largest ever religious freedom gathering voiced hope that the new U.S. administration and Congress would include their cause in broader policies as the International Religious Freedom Summit opened in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday (Feb. 4).
