(International Christian Concern) – On Nov. 4, a mob of armed Muslims stopped Christians from constructing a church building in the village of Chak 211/EB, located near Arifwala, in the Pakpattan district of Pakistan’s Punjab province. According to local Christians, they are being denied their basic constitutional rights by village leaders. The incident started when […]
SYRACUSE, N.Y. — The Second Circuit Court of Appeals will soon hear the case of a New York foster and adoption agency that is facing an ultimatum from the State to either allow placement in homes where there is not both a mother and a father or discontinue its child placement services altogether. The court […]
(Church in Chains) — The six students and two staff members kidnapped from a Christian-run school in Kaduna State on Oct. 3 were released on Saturday Oct. 26. Police did not say if a ransom was paid, but sources told Nigerian newspapers that a ransom of 13.6 million Naira (approximately €33,750) had been paid. The […]
HYDERABAD, India (Morning Star News) – Police in southern India’s Tamil Nadu state have put several house churches under surveillance in order to stop worship, in violation of the country’s secular constitution, sources said. Police have told congregations to stop worship in homes in Anuperpalayem, Velampalayem, Kangeyam and several other villages in Tiruppur District, Vijaya Kumar of […]
Iran (Church in Chains) — Ebrahim Firouzi, 33, was released from Rajai Shahr prison in Karaj on Saturday, near the end of a five-year sentence. He had also spent time in prison previously on charges relating to his Christian activities. Ebrahim must now serve two years’ internal exile in the remote southeastern town of Sarbaz […]
EAST PRICE HILL, Ohio (WKRC) — Cincinnati Christian University students are heartbroken Monday night. They heard rumors about their school shutting down but were hopeful they could at least finish out this academic year. “People were bawling their eyes out. People were out — like they were in the cafeteria and they just left […]
(International Christian Concern) – On October 11, a group of 35 Christians distributing Christian literature in India’s Chhattisgarh state were harassed by radical Hindu nationalists and handed over to local police. The Christians were then told that they were no longer allowed to distributed their literature, despite the fact that they had received prior permission […]
Authorities in China demolished a megachurch building in the Funan, Anhui region of the country with a seating capacity of over 3,000 and detained its pastors, according to a new report by ChinaAid. According to the report, “no legal papers ordering the church’s demolition were provided, but the officials tore it down on Friday. It […]
(Pew Research Center) – The religious landscape of the United States continues to change at a rapid clip. In Pew Research Center telephone surveys conducted in 2018 and 2019, 65% of American adults describe themselves as Christians when asked about their religion, down 12 percentage points over the past decade. Meanwhile, the religiously unaffiliated share […]
(CBS News) – California just became the first state in the U.S. to require public colleges to provide abortion medication to students on campus. Governor Gavin Newsom signed Senate Bill 24 — known as the “College student Right to Access Act” — into law Friday. Under the new law, all 34 University of California and […]