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

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

Diyarbakir, Jin-Wook Kim, Korean, Malatya, Protestants, Religious freedom, Turkey

Korean murdered in southeast Turkey ‘for mobile phone’

Criminal investigations into the stabbing to death of a Korean Christian last week in southeast Turkey’s largest city are continuing under a cloak of judicial secrecy, . . . Read More

Refusing to move, an Ethiopian congregation is arrested

The authorities in Ethiopia’s northern region of Amhara had told the Ethiopian Fellowship of Evangelical Students it no longer could operate in the town of Debark. . . . Read More

Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, Cairo, Copts, Egypt, Mansoura, Mohamed Morsi, Muslim Brotherhood

Egypt: Series of fires in their churches ‘not a coincidence’, say Copts

Three Coptic churches in the Upper Egypt region were hit by fires in the last three weeks which, the Copts say, is “not a coincidence”. On . . . Read More

Catching Our Eye

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

Risk of persecution going digital with rise of surveillance state

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

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

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