A United States Congressional delegation and other officials have gathered in Hungary’s capital Budapest to remember Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg, who is credited with saving the lives of as many as 100,000 Hungarian Jews during World War II. Friday’s commemoration was part of a series of events marking the Raoul Wallenberg Year to commemorate his […]
LAOS. In Dec. 2011 officials forced Christians in a Lao village to give up their faith in order to bury a family member in the village graveyard, according to advocacy groupHuman Rights Watch for Lao Religious Freedom(HRWLRF). In Huey, Ad-Sapangthong district of Savannakhet Province, where immediate burial is essential in the hot tropical climate, the […]
India is one of the regions closely monitored by human rights groups, due to many cases of religious persecution taking place in its recent history. The biggest act of violence against Christians took place in 2008, in a remote eastern region of India, during an event referred to as the “Orissa massacre,” in which an […]
A suicide car bomber detonated his explosives during a worship service of a large evangelical church in Nigeria’s restive city of Jos early Sunday, February 26, killing himself and a father and child, government and church officials said. Plateau State spokesman Pam Ayuba said others were injured in the Sunday blast, which was believed to […]
Syrian dictator Bashar Assad’s security forces last week killed Husam al Murra, a Syrian Christian who had joined the Syrian Free Army, which is fighting to topple the regime in Damascus. Assad is angry with the Christians in his country because most of them have refused to support his atrocities against the Syrian people. He […]
KHARTOUM, Sudan — Two Catholic priests abducted at gunpoint in Rabak, Sudan last month have been released amid a wave of forcible conscriptions into rebel southern militias. Their captors – South Sudanese militiamen loyal to (north) Sudan’s Islamic government – accused the Rev. Joseph Makwey and the Rev. Sylvester Mogga of ties to the South […]
Nigeria’s militant Islamist group Boko Haram – which has caused havoc in Africa’s most populous country through a wave of bombings – is fighting to overthrow the government and create an Islamic state. Its followers are said to be influenced by the Koranic phrase which says: “Anyone who is not governed by what Allah has […]
SULEJA, Nigeria — Suspected Islamic extremists detonated a bomb outside a church building here on Sunday (Feb. 19), two months after Boko Haram Islamists killed 44 Christians and blinded seven in a church bombing in nearby Madalla. Sunday’s blast in Suleja, in front of Christ Embassy church during their morning worship, injured five people, one […]
TEHRAN, IRAN – The health of a jailed pastor of one of Iran’s largest evangelical house church movements is deteriorating and there were fears Monday he may die, a well-informed representative told BosNewsLife. Behnam Irani, who was jailed for what critics view as “trumped up” charges of “crimes against the Islamic state” is “experiencing some […]
Iran again ordered the death penalty for jailed Pastor Youcef Nadarkhani for refusing to recant his faith in Christ and return to Islam raising fears his execution is imminent, a well-informed church official told BosNewsLife Tuesday, February 21. “I was informed yesterday evening that the Gilan [Province] Court ordered the execution” said Firouz Khandjani, a […]
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