In the sixth in a series of videos exposing the attacks on freedom of religion or belief in China, MP David Anderson addresses use of checkpoints in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region: In a previous segment, I spoke about the persecution of ... Full Article

In the fifth in a series of videos exposing the attacks on freedom of religion or belief in China, MP David Anderson addresses persecution in the Tibetan Autonomous Region: In previous videos, I addressed the persecution of the Uyghur Muslims in ... Full Article

In the fourth in a series of videos exposing the attacks on freedom of religion or belief in China, MP David Anderson addresses the separation of families in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region: In a previous video, I talked about ... Full Article

In the third in a series of videos exposing the attacks on freedom of religion or belief in China, MP David Anderson addresses the continued persecution of Falun Gong: The Falun Gong has been considered an ‘evil cult’ by Chinese authorities ... Full Article

By Lindy Lowry | Open Doors Chinese authorities are now taking steps in rural areas of China to intensify the ongoing crackdown on Christian gatherings often known as house churches. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is reportedly resorting to ... Full Article

By Ajai Shukla | The Guardian On Friday, the four-day-long military flare-up between Pakistan and India began winding down, with Islamabad handing back an Indian air force pilot taken captive by the Pakistan army two days earlier. He had been ... Full Article

By Morning Star News NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – Christians in a town in southern Ethiopia were stunned when local Muslims attacked 10 church buildings on Feb. 9, destroying one and burning the property inside all the structures, ... Full Article

By Catholic News Agency BHOPAL, India — Violent attacks, including public lynchings, against Christians in India are reportedly becoming increasingly common, with international nongovernmental organizations and the country’s Catholic bishops ... Full Article

By Morning Star News JOS, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – At least 32 people were killed in a Muslim Fulani herder attack on a Christian area of north-central Nigeria on Tuesday (Feb. 26), sources said. The early morning assault on villages in ... Full Article

By Barbara G. Baker | World Watch Monitor Turkey’s high-profile criminal case against Protestant pastor Andrew Brunson has triggered a significant increase in public hate speech against the nation’s small Protestant community, creating what ... Full Article

By Catholic News Agency Washington D.C., Feb 26, 2019 / 05:17 pm (CNA).- The U.S. ambassador-at-large for international religious freedom has applauded Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates for showing a willingness to improve in ... Full Article

By Shereena Qazi | Al Jazeera Kabul, Afghanistan – On September 5 last year, a Wednesday, coach Ghulam Abbas, 58, heard gunfire at the Maiwand Wrestling club in Dash-e-Barchi, a neighbourhood in Kabul’s west home to a sizeable Hazara ... Full Article

By Almudena Calatrava | Associated Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — An attack that badly injured Argentina’s chief rabbi has alarmed authorities both in the South American nation and in Israel, who raised concerns on Tuesday that it ... Full Article

By World Watch Monitor Tajik authorities implementing a new religion law are barring children from attending religious services and have burned thousands of calendars with Bible verses. Amendments to Tajikistan’s Religion Law came into force ... Full Article

While the Trudeau government has given Canadian Christians little reason to cheer, writes Convivium contributor Don Hutchinson, it deserves praise for its effort to save the persecuted Pakistani woman condemned to death for blasphemy against ... Full Article

By Iain Marlow | Bloomberg News (Bloomberg) — Radical cow protection groups in India have killed at least 44 people over the last three years and often received support from law enforcement and Hindu nationalist politicians, according to a ... Full Article

By The Catholic Universe A group of politicians has raised concerns that Catholic mother Asia Bibi has not yet left Pakistan and is now being denied access and communication with the country that has offered her asylum. The politicians, ... Full Article

By Victoria Arnold | Forum 18 More than 100 Jehovah’s Witnesses are now the subjects of criminal “extremism” cases in over a third of Russia’s regions. If brought to court and convicted, they could face up to 10 ... Full Article

by Diana Chandler | Baptist Press HAVANA (BP) — Cuban pastors are resisting pressure to support a Feb. 24 constitutional referendum that further limits religious freedoms in the Communist nation, international religious liberty advocates ... Full Article

By Jon Henley | The Guardian Antisemitism is rising sharply across Europe, experts have said, as France reported a 74% increase in the number of offences against Jews last year and Germany said the number of violent antisemitic attacks had ... Full Article