A Muslim lawmaker in Pakistan’s Punjab Provincial Assembly on Tuesday (Sept. 1) introduced legislation seeking to establish permanent legal protections for sanitation workers, a workforce that includes a large proportion of Christians.
One Christian in Pakistan was arrested and charged with blasphemy on Saturday (Aug. 29) and another faced the same accusation on Aug. 11 under laws that carry the death penalty, sources said.
A U.N. panel last week cited India for discrimination against its Christian and Muslim minorities.
The European Leadership Forum has suspended registration for its 2027 annual meeting and is asking supporters to help identify a new venue, after learning that the Polish hotel that has hosted the gathering since 2013 will be closed for renovation work.
Two Christians have been kidnapped in northern Cameroon in the latest attack attributed to Boko Haram militants, prompting renewed concern over the safety of believers living in communities near the Nigerian border.
About six in 10 Christian middle and high school students in South Korea say they have encountered contradictions between what they are taught in the classroom and what they hear at church, according to survey findings released by the Pastoral Data Research Institute in South Korea.
The Federation of Free Evangelical Churches in Germany said it counted 504 congregations and 40,933 members as of Dec. 31, 2025, and reported a rise in baptisms that it called the clearest change in its recent statistics.
Christian lawyers from across Punjab Province recently received specialized training for cases of child marriage, abduction and forced religious conversion in order to strengthen implementation of the province’s amended child marriage law.
The doors of some small churches in Zanzibar, a semi-autonomous archipelago of Tanzania, have been broken, Bibles scattered and congregations left shaken. Yet Christians in several Muslim-majority communities continue to gather for worship despite fears of further attacks and growing social pressure.
Paraguay’s Senate gave preliminary approval Wednesday to a bill that would establish a National Day of the Evangelical Church in Paraguay. The measure, approved with amendments Aug. 26, now goes to the Chamber of Deputies for consideration.
At least 27 people were killed when a minibus taxi carrying members of a Christian congregation crashed head-on into a haulage truck in Zimbabwe. Seven others were hurt.
Christian rights advocates on Saturday (Aug. 29) condemned a Pakistani court’s decision to give custody of a 13-year-old Christian girl to a Muslim accused of abducting, forcibly converting and marrying her.
About six in 10 Christian middle and high school students in South Korea say they have encountered contradictions between what they are taught in the classroom and what they hear at church, according to survey findings released by the Pastoral Data Research Institute in South Korea.
The Federation of Free Evangelical Churches in Germany said it counted 504 congregations and 40,933 members as of Dec. 31, 2025, and reported a rise in baptisms that it called the clearest change in its recent statistics.
Christian lawyers from across Punjab Province recently received specialized training for cases of child marriage, abduction and forced religious conversion in order to strengthen implementation of the province’s amended child marriage law.
The doors of some small churches in Zanzibar, a semi-autonomous archipelago of Tanzania, have been broken, Bibles scattered and congregations left shaken. Yet Christians in several Muslim-majority communities continue to gather for worship despite fears of further attacks and growing social pressure.
Paraguay’s Senate gave preliminary approval Wednesday to a bill that would establish a National Day of the Evangelical Church in Paraguay. The measure, approved with amendments Aug. 26, now goes to the Chamber of Deputies for consideration.
At least 27 people were killed when a minibus taxi carrying members of a Christian congregation crashed head-on into a haulage truck in Zimbabwe. Seven others were hurt.
Christian rights advocates on Saturday (Aug. 29) condemned a Pakistani court’s decision to give custody of a 13-year-old Christian girl to a Muslim accused of abducting, forcibly converting and marrying her.
