The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) and a coalition of civil society organizations on Sunday (March 29) called on authorities to immediately suspend ongoing and planned eviction operations targeting low-income settlements in the federal capital, warning that the drive risks violating legal protections and triggering a humanitarian crisis among vulnerable communities.
In a lecture series at China Evangelical Seminary back in April, Alexander Chow, Senior Lecturer in Theology and World Christianity at New College, University of Edinburgh, established the need for Christians worldwide to listen to theologians from the Majority World. The future of the Global Church depends on us having ears to hear.
The anti-Christian realities in India provide ample evidence that a culture can quickly turn against freedom of religion. Sadly, in India, some Christian leaders claim that if there is one place you can go to remain unaware of what is happening, it is in established churches on a Sunday morning! Thankfully the Holy Spirit is not so constrained and Christians continue to multiply in the midst of heightening persecution.
In Myanmar, the Church is often the strongest surviving institution in an isolated community, destroying it weakens not only worship but the community’s capacity to resist the oppressive control of Myanmar's military junta. Christians are often thought of as collateral damage in Myanmar’s civil war, but they are also being targeted.
A documentary about indigenous land dispossession and military violence in West Papua has been watched more than 13.6 million times on YouTube within days, after Indonesian authorities failed to suppress organized screenings in cities throughout the country. More than 107,000 people in April 2026 have been displaced and most of them Christian.
Authorities in Pakistan failed to correct the religious identity of a Christian family in the national database despite a court directive, leaving them vulnerable to social pressure and economic hardship, they said.
Bangladesh’s new government has prompted cautious optimism among Christian leaders, who say recent political changes offer a potential opening for greater religious freedom even as concerns remain over security, justice and political pressure.
Thousands of Christian families living in informal settlements in Pakistan’s federal capital say they fear losing their homes after authorities issued verbal directives last week ordering residents to vacate government land, triggering protests and raising concern among human rights advocates about the possible displacement of an already marginalized community.
Nepal’s Christian leaders say they are cautiously hopeful after the Rastriya Swatantra Party’s landslide election victory, even as past actions by some party figures raise concerns about religious freedom and churches renew calls for equal rights, burial grounds and an end to false legal cases.
Hindu nationalists in central India last month led a mob that assaulted Christians at worship in a house church, including women and children, and beat the pastor unconscious, sources said.
Nepal held its first general election since a deadly youth-led uprising toppled the government last year, with nearly 19 million voters casting ballots on March 5 in an election that has reshaped the country’s established political map.
Three weeks after the kidnapping of Scripture Union Nigeria’s national general director in southeast Nigeria, he and seven other fellowship leaders remain missing, according to reports.
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