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
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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
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
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
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
Pakistani Senator alleges police collusion with gang whose gun attack injures seven, one critically
The most senior political leader of Pakistan’s minority Christians has complained of what he calls ‘prejudicial treatment’ by police in the way the force responded to . . . Read More
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