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Al-Shabaab, Education, Garissa, Islamic extremism, Kenya, Mandera, Somali Region, Wajir

Mass exodus of teachers triggers education crisis in north east Kenya

Recent killings of non-local teachers in north-eastern Kenya by suspected al-Shabaab militants have triggered a further mass exodus from the predominantly Muslim region, after at least . . . Read More

Converts, Human rights, Kidnapping, Minorities, Religious freedom, Women

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

The UN Secretary-General last week called it ‘the biggest data gap in the world…what UK writer Caroline Criado Perez calls “default man” thinking: the unquestioned assumption . . . Read More

Location where a Christian mob burnt alive two Muslim men in response to church suicide bomb attacks in Youhanabad, March 2015. (Photo: World Watch Monitor)

Bombing, Lahore, Taliban, Youhanabad

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

Forty Pakistani Christians, who’ve been on trial for the murder of two men during a violent protest following Easter suicide attacks on two churches in Youhanabad – . . . Read More

Boko Haram, Islamic extremism, Islamic State, Kidnapping, Nigeria

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

The newly-released annual World Watch List (WWL) of the top 50 countries in which it is most difficult to live as a Christian shows that, especially . . . Read More

BJP, China, India, Surveillance

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

Catching Our Eye

Boko Haram has killed more than Islamic State in Iraq and Syria combined

Turkey orders deportation of pastor’s American wife, a mother-of-three, in string of expulsions

“Incessant killing more dangerous than Coronavirus”: report on Nigeria to UK Parliament

Nigeria’s Kano State Governor converts Christian under-age girl to Islam

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

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