World Watch Monitor - Reporting the story of Christians around the world under pressure for their faith.

Risk of persecution going digital with rise of surveillance state

A case can be made that today there are more Christians in China than members of the Communist Party. China comes no. 23 in the Open . . . Read More

BJP, Boko Haram, Churches, Islamic extremism, Middle East, Minorities, Southeast Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, World Watch List

From sub-Saharan Africa to China, Christians experience ‘high’ levels of persecution

• In Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday more than 250 people, 45 of them children, were killed in attacks on three churches and hotels; more than . . . Read More

extremism, Khujand, Pentecostals, Protestants, security police, Tajikistan

Tajik pastor freed after 3 years in prison for ‘singing extremist songs in church’

A Protestant pastor sentenced to three years in prison for “singing extremist songs in church and so inciting religious hatred” has been freed three months early . . . Read More

BJP, Hindu nationalism, Human rights, India, Kandhamal, Minorities

India: Supreme Court orders seven Kandhamal Christians freed on bail after 9 years in prison

Eleven years ago today, 13 December 2008, an Indian man was arrested. Initially, he suspected it would be quickly resolved – he was active in local . . . Read More

Al-Shabaab, Garissa, Islamic extremism, Kenya, Somalia, Wajir

Al-Shabaab singles out 11 to kill in bus attack in northern Kenya; raises fear for Christians

Eleven people, almost all known to be Christians, were killed during an attack by the Islamist Al-Shabaab group on a bus in Kenya’s border region with Somalia . . . Read More

For Gambian Christians, there’s a lot to like — and one big worry — in the proposed constitution

The Gambia, a tiny nation on Africa’s North Atlantic coast, is considering a new constitution. Prominent Christian voices in the country say there is a . . . Read More

Catching Our Eye

Nigerian girl, 17, escapes month in locked room after abduction and forcible conversion to Islam

Mass exodus of teachers triggers education crisis in north east Kenya

UN Sec. General’s “biggest data gap in the world” affects persecuted Christian women

40 Pakistani Christians freed after almost 5 years in prison on trial for ‘terrorism’

Violent Islamist militancy spreads into weak states across sub-Saharan Africa

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