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Catching Our Eye

Main suspect behind Sri Lanka Easter churches’ deaths arrested
India: Eight Christians acquitted of kidnapping and forced conversion
Sudan: Three churches burned down twice within one month
Nigeria: ‘Government is Boko Haram but without bomb’, says church leader
Christians in Africa face ‘explosion’ in violence, senior church leader says
  • Jeff Woodke (Photo: Woodke's Facebook page)

    Niger: US aid worker Jeff Woodke released

  • Prayers in Deir El-Garnouse Coptic church, near Al-Minya in Upper Egypt, after Islamic State opened fire on a convoy carrying Copts, killing at least 28 people in May 2017.

    Egypt: Copt and son killed in IS attack

  • People participate in a motorbike rally ahead of country’s 75th Independence Day celebrations in Lahore on August 12, 2022.

    Pakistan: Christians continue to face blasphemy convictions and violent attacks

  • Copts have been targeted in a string of attacks this year. (Getty)

    Egypt: Father and son stabbed in latest attack on Copts

  • Karim Khan of ICC visits Nigeria, April 2022

    ICC Prosecutor visits Nigeria to discuss war crimes and crimes against humanity with government

Articles

Alexandria, Copts, Egypt, Youth

Egypt: Copt stabbed seven times by neighbour who’d lured in his son

An Egyptian Christian was stabbed multiple times when he tried to rescue his son who was held against his will by a Muslim neighbour in Alexandria. . . . Read More
Blasphemy, Cairo, Egypt, Human rights, Minorities

Egypt: Coptic Christian imprisoned for 5 years for ‘blasphemy’

A Coptic Christian has been sentenced to five years in prison for blasphemy, according to the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights, or EIPR, which represented him . . . Read More
Afghanistan, All Saints Church, Pakistan, Peshawar, Quetta, Taliban, Tehreek-e-Labaik

Pakistan: ‘Attack on pastors illustrative of increasing pressure’, say Christians

A Pakistani pastor was killed and another wounded Sunday in an attack outside their church in northwestern Peshawar. The two pastors were leaving the Shaheedan-e- all . . . Read More
Afghan-women-face-highly restricted lives under the Taliban
Boko Haram, Catholics, Churches, Converts, India, Islamic extremism, Minorities, Nigeria, North Korea, Pakistan, Refugees, Religious freedom

Afghanistan overtakes N Korea as most dangerous place to live as a Christian

After the August 2021 takeover by the Taliban of Afghanistan, the country has overtaken North Korea as the most dangerous place in the world to be . . . Read More
Mariam, widow of sewer cleaner Nadeem Masih Oct 4, 2021
discrimination, Human rights, legal, Minorities, Pakistan, Sweepers

Pakistan sewage workers’ widows pressured to drop criminal negligence cases

“I so wish wish I hadn’t pushed him to go that night”…. Widow Mariam Bibi, mother of six at the age of 32, desperately wishes she . . . Read More
Sr. Gloria Argoti meets Pope Francis straight after being freed by Islamists in Mali, oct 10 2021
Colombia, Gloria Argoti, Islamic extremism, Jeff Woodke, Ken Elliott, Kidnapping

Her co-hostage freed a year before; nun meets Pope after Islamists let her leave Mali

After almost 5 years as a captive of an Al Qaeda-linked Islamist group in Mali in West Africa, a Colombian nun, Gloria Cecilia Narvaez Argoti, has . . . Read More
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