
Hate crimes and opposition against Christians increase in Turkey
Christians in Türkiye suffered an upsurge in hate crimes in 2024 compared with the previous year, according to a human rights report.

Christians in Türkiye suffered an upsurge in hate crimes in 2024 compared with the previous year, according to a human rights report.
In many of India's states, Christians continue to struggle under increasing restrictions and persecution. While many thousands of Jesus' followers readily show up for celebratory events, very few are bold enough to stand with the suffering and against injustice. This is an indictment against the Church and the leader of the Evangelical Fellowship of India says we can do much better.
Christian, Islamic, and secular/atheistic perspectives and politics have shaped recent world history more than any other international movement. All three have produced widespread forms of antisemitism that have repeatedly intermingled, threatening the human rights of Jewish people. It is important that Christians understand the roots of antisemitism and resist it as an evil and an affront to God.
Years after she lived through unspeakable violence, young Ruth’s smile emerges free from trauma but she still bears some physical effects of a people facing continuous threats from tribal, economic, and religious opposition to their presence on the land. Yet hope remains as the people trust in Jesus as their deliverer.
South Africa celebrates Pride Month during October even as persecution of homosexuals is rising in other African states. This should be of concern for Christians as freedom of belief has long been a commitment of Protestant Christians. It doesn’t mean Christians must agree with differing beliefs, but it does mean that we must support the human right of others to hold, practice, and celebrate their beliefs as we have the right to hold, practice, and celebrate ours.

Officials and Muslim clerics in a village in West Java Province, Indonesia have closed a prayer house, expelled an evangelist and indefinitely halted all Christian activities there, media outlets reported.

A Christian mother in Somalia has been locked in a room with her infant daughter since Aug. 6 after Muslim relatives relocated her following an earlier escape, sources said.

In the nearly 21 years since two Orthodox priests were arbitrarily imprisoned in Eritrea, their wives have died.

A Muslim who put his faith in Christ after receiving a vision in a mosque in Uganda was hospitalized after relatives beat him, demolished his home and took in his wife and six children, sources said.

Two years after Islamist attacks on Christians in the Jaranwala area in Punjab Province, Pakistan, hopes for justice are dimming amid the sabotaging of prosecution efforts, advocates said.

Falsely accusing two nuns and a Christian man of trafficking three women in India, Hindu extremists with threats and assault forced the three tribal Christian women to sign a statement against their companions, sources said.