Christian Orphan Dies in Kano State CustodyFebruary 3, 2026 — A Christian orphan taken from the Du Merci Orphanage in Nigeria and held by the Kano state government has died while still in state custody. The death occurred nearly 10...
Lack of Evidence Leads to Acquittals in 5 Anti-Conversion CasesFebruary 2, 2026 — Five full trials of cases registered under the anti-conversion law in the North Indian state of Uttarakhand fell short of judicial scrutiny due to insufficient evidence, leading to the accused’s...
What It’s Like to Become a Christian in IranFebruary 2, 2026 — Recent uprisings, violent crackdowns, and escalating tensions with the U.S. have brought added international attention to Iran, a nation of 93 million people, most of whom are Shia Muslim. Though...
Report Reveals Top Global Christian PersecutorsJanuary 30, 2026 — In a January 2026 report, the International Institute for Religious Freedom (IIRF) detailed some of the world’s top perpetrators of violence against Christians across five continents. The group, with the...
Catholic Mission Compound Attacked in EthiopiaJanuary 30, 2026 — On Dec. 18, looters attacked Itang Catholic Mission in Ethiopia. The incident is a casualty of the longstanding conflict between the Anyuak and Nuer tribes. At dawn, starting at 5:30...
Judge Blocks Termination of Protections for Migrants from MyanmarJanuary 29, 2026 — A federal judge has ordered a temporary halt to the U.S. government’s plan to terminate Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for nationals of Myanmar living in the United States — a shift from...
New Maldives Media Laws Further Restrict ReligionJanuary 29, 2026 — In the idyllic island nation of more than 500,000 people, the 2008 Maldives Constitution declares resolutely that Islam is the state religion. Citizens may not practice or follow any religion...
Radical Islamic Organizations Reject Christian Revival ServicesJanuary 28, 2026 — The Christian New Year celebration on Jan. 6 in Bandung, West Java, Indonesia, was rejected and disrupted by the radical organization PASS (Defenders of Ahlus Sunnah). The organization protested the...
ADF Kills 25 in Attack on Apakolu VillageJanuary 28, 2026 — In the early hours of Sunday, Jan. 25, fighters of the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) killed 25 villagers in a brutal attack on Apakolu, a farming community in Irumu, Democratic...
Activists Call for Self-Defense Measures After Fulani Militias Kill 7 Christians in NigeriaJanuary 27, 2026 — In the middle of the night, seven Christian men were brutally killed in a coordinated night attack on a mining site at Capitex, Kuru community, in Jos South Local Government...
Pastor in India Forced to Eat Cow Dung, Drink Sewer WaterJanuary 27, 2026 — After accusing a pastor in the Dhenkanal district of Odisha, India, of forcefully converting Hindus to Christianity, a group of Hindu nationalists forced him to eat cow dung and drink...
Christians Respond to Protests in IranJanuary 23, 2026 — The protest against Iran’s collapsing economy quickly escalated, turning into a nationwide revolt against the country’s authoritarian rule. Since Dec. 28, tens of thousands of citizens have taken to the...
Amid Nationwide Uprising, Iran’s Christians Are on Heightened AlertJanuary 22, 2026 — Iran has just seen several weeks of lethal turmoil, the most severe since the 1979 Islamic Revolution that forever changed the country and, for that matter, the world. That revolution,...
Iran Makes Large Sums of Money Off the Backs of Persecuted ChristiansJanuary 22, 2026 — Iran has an open secret. Persecuting Christians is a booming business in the Muslim-majority nation, and the country is earning large sums of money from arresting Christ followers. Fines and...
Children Abducted, Tormented as Militia Groups Terrorize the DRC January 22, 2026 — Terrorist groups continued their rampage of death and destruction through the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) in 2025, increasingly targeting children as weapons for war and abuse. Militia...
Judicial Oversight Exposes Systemic Religious Mislabeling in Sabah, MalaysiaJanuary 20, 2026 — For decades, a profound and silent struggle has permeated the heart of the Malaysian state of Sabah, in northern Borneo. Thousands of indigenous Christians have faced a life-altering discrepancy on...
