A prominent attorney petitioned Nigeria’s president to declare a military emergency as Fulani herdsmen killed at least 86 people in predominantly Christian areas of Benue state in the past two weeks, including 46 on Sunday (June 1), sources said.
In a perfect world, where legal systems hold political power to account and protect minorities against human rights abuses we might expect an end to persecution. But we do not live in a perfect world. People with power continue to act with impunity against those who think and live differently to them. Christians have a way to cope with this reality and a real and living hope for a future free of persecution.
New political winds are blowing with increasing force as the push-back against globalization grows with increasing nationalisms. The demand to pledge allegiance to something other than God in Christ will put renewed pressure on the Church and we need to be prepared to hold true to our faith. Here is a stern warning that Christians must take to heart.
Peace studies students witness locals spitting on a Christian holy site in Jerusalem prompting this response from a respected Christian leader whose family has lived in the city for millennia.
African farmers work hard to grow whatever the land agrees to yield, while in the Nigerian Plateau Christian farmers face increasing threats from Fulani militias. It is rare that we read from the perspective of a victim of terrorism. This account is both an exception and exceptional. Uren, in her final year of high school, writes with terrifying yet beautiful prose of the death of her siblings and father at the hands of a band of brutal Fulani militias. Read on for a reality check.
For the first time in its history, the United Nations General Assembly held a high-level meeting addressing the human rights situation in North Korea. The meeting took place on May 20 (local time) at the U.N. Headquarters in New York and was convened by the president of the 79th U.N. General Assembly. It was based on a resolution on North Korean human rights adopted in December 2023. This marks the first occasion the U.N.’s primary deliberative body has addressed the issue in a high-level format
Pakistan’s top Islamic body on Tuesday (May 27) rejected a bill that seeks to criminalize child marriages in Islamabad, describing it as “un-Islamic.”
More than a dozen Christian graves at three cemeteries in the Special Region of Yogyakarta, Indonesia were vandalized from May 16 to 19, according to published reports.
Muslim parents in southern Somalia were overjoyed to see their missing 20-year-old son, a drug addict, return home free of substance abuse this month. When they discovered that his transformation sprang from putting his faith in Christ, however, they drove him from their home.
Fulani herdsmen in the early hours of Saturday (May 24) killed 42 people in three predominantly Christian communities in Taraba state, northeast Nigeria, sources said.
A judge in Pakistan on May 16 handed custody of a Catholic girl to the Muslim who kidnapped and forcibly married her despite evidence that she was coerced into stating she converted to Islam, her father said.
A Christian trafficking ministry leader is trekking 580 miles across three U.S. states with her pet goat named “Freedom” to raise money for trafficked women. Britney Higgs, 35, a mom-of-four children and both founder and chief executive officer of HER Campaign is aiming to raise $580,000 USD through the "Walk for Her" hiking trek, reflecting a thousand dollars for each mile walked with her goat, during her quest to raise awareness on the issue.
