(Business Insider) — Saudi Arabia agreed to host explicit Netflix shows in exchange for the removal of a satirical episode that criticized the kingdom, the streaming giant’s CEO said. On January 1, 2019, Netflix confirmed it removed for its Saudi viewers an episode of “Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj” in which Minhaj accused Saudi […]
(International Christian Concern) – On September 8, Asif Pervaiz was sentenced to death by a trial court in Lahore, Pakistan for allegedly committing blasphemy. The legal team defending Pervaiz filed an appeal with the Lahore High Court on September 14 seeking to overturn the death sentence. Pervaiz, a 37-year-old Pakistani Christian, was convicted of committing […]
(International Christian Concern) – Police in Pakistan have announced the arrest of two men, Salman Khan and Suleman Khan, in Peshawar in connection with the killing a Christian in June. According to statements from the victim, he was shot because he was the only Christian living in what his assailants claimed was a Muslim neighborhood. […]
(The Christian Institute) — New research shows the rapid growth of the church in Iran, with Iranian Christians now numbering around one million. The study was conducted by The Group for Analyzing and Measuring Attitudes in Iran (GAMAAN). The Netherlands-based research group seeks to access the opinions of Iranians on sensitive issues that cannot be […]
(The Christian Institute) — The parents of one of the smallest babies ever born in Australia have shared how their tiny baby has defied the odds to be allowed home. Baby Mimi Marks weighed just 13 oz. when she was born in April at only 26 weeks — 14 weeks premature. Since birth she has […]
(International Christian Concern) – Christians in Uttar Pradesh, a state located in northern India, are no strangers to persecution. Year after year, Uttar Pradesh is identified as the state where most Christian persecution incidents are recorded in India. According to the Evangelical Fellowship of India (EFI), 86 of the 366 violent attacks on Indian Christians […]
(The Christian Institute) — Almost 110,000 abortions were carried out on residents of England and Wales between January and June this year, the government has revealed. Figures released by the Department for Health and Social Care indicated there had been an increase of more than 4,000 on the same period last year. In the whole […]
(The Christian Institute) — The Christian Institute has said that difficulties are not a reason to give up on marriage, following a rise in online searches for divorce guidance. Speaking to Premier Christian Radio, The Christian Institute’s Deputy Director for Communications Ciarán Kelly urged Christians to hold on to the importance of marriage in […]
(Barnabas Fund) — At least 58 people were killed and 17 kidnapped when Muslim militants attacked two villages in the mainly-Christian north-east of the Democratic Republic of Congo in early September. Twenty-three people were murdered on Sept. 8 and another 35 were killed two days later in the heavily forested Tshabi area of southern Ituri […]
(Barnabas Fund) — A Nigerian pastor, already wounded in a Fulani militant attack, was shot multiple times by the gunmen as he attempted to warn his Adara Christian community, in Kaduna State, of the impending raid on Sept. 6. Pastor Alubara Audu heard voices close to his home at 2 a.m. and attempted to raise […]