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December 4, 2018 Asylum seekers, Bangkok, Human rights, Imran Khan, Migrants, Minorities, Pakistan, PTI, Refugees, Thailand, UN

Pakistani Christian asylum seekers in Thailand ask for help

Death, disease, starvation, and continuous living in hiding from immigration authorities to escape permanent imprisonment in stinking dungeons – this is what life has become for . . . Read More

Women's suffering because of their faith is often in daily life. (Photo: World Watch Monitor)

November 26, 2018 Central African Republic, Colombia, Education, Egypt, Ethiopia, Iraq, Minorities, Religious freedom, Women

Persecution of minority Christian women ‘hidden, complex, and interwoven with “everyday” discrimination’

Five new reports – about Egypt, Ethiopia, Iraq, Colombia and the Central African Republic – unmask the multiple domestic, societal and state dynamics used in the . . . Read More

November 26, 2018 Ankara, David Byle, Istanbul, Proselytism, Turkey

Turkey refuses entry to N. American Christian evangelist

Turkish immigration authorities refused to permit Canadian-American Christian David Byle to enter Turkey when he returned to Istanbul’s Sabiha Gokcen airport last week. After living and . . . Read More

November 23, 2018 Anti-balaka, Bangui, Central African Republic, Dieudonné Nzapalainga, Seleka, UN, UPC

CAR: Two priests among dozens massacred as Islamic militants raid church compound

In Central African Republic, violence reached another peak last Thursday as dozens were killed in the small town of Alindao, in the south-east of the country. . . . Read More

Survivors of the bus attack arrive back at their church on Saturday 3 November. (Photo: Open Doors International)

November 23, 2018 Copts, Egypt, Islamic extremism, Islamic State, Minya

Egypt bus attack survivors ask ‘how could this happen again?’

Egypt’s Copts are still reeling from a second bus attack in two years on the desert road to a monastery in Minya and asking why there . . . Read More

The remainders of a car after it was hit by a mortar in an attack by ADF militias on two villages near Beni, eastern DRC. (Photo: Getty Images / AFP)

November 22, 2018 ADF, Beni, Churches, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Islamic extremism

Two pastors among seven killed by Islamist militants in eastern DRC

Two Congolese pastors were among the seven Christians killed in attacks by an Islamist militant group in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo earlier this month. Six . . . Read More

Catching Our Eye

Indonesian Christian governor Ahok set for early release from prison

Raymond Koh’s wife ‘expects justice’ as inquiry into Malaysian pastor’s abduction ends

70 years since universal declaration, human rights ‘ignored and abused all over the world’

Iran: ‘staggering’ number of Christians arrested – 114 in a week

Prince Charles praises ‘extraordinary grace and forgiveness’ of Christians in Middle East

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