Eight wounded in Islamic State car bombing
QAMISHLI, SYRIA (ANS) -- Islamic State (IS) claimed responsibility for detonating a car bomb in front of a church in north-east Syria on July...
Cuban Officials Forbid Church Leaders to Attend Religious Freedom Event
MEXICO CITY, MEXICO (ANS) -- Authorities in Cuba on Sunday (July 14) refused to allow the national presidents of two Christian denominations to board...
Cuban Government Bans Evangelicals from Travel
CUBA (ANS) -- Three evangelical leaders were prevented from boarding flights from Cuba to the United States on Saturday and Sunday July 13-14 as...
Indian Christians Forced to ‘Reconvert’
HYDERABAD, INDIA (ANS) -- Christians who worshipped privately in their homes in a village in eastern India were dragged to local leaders last month...
Algeria: Church grows 50-fold in 10 years
The world’s largest Arab country, once home to the Phoenicians, Romans, Ottomans, and French is now home to a
growing number of Christian believers, despite...
Egypt PM: worship places not to be “disposed of ”
CAIRO, EGYPT (ANS) -- Churches and church affiliated buildings licensed for worship in Egypt cannot be “disposed of” or used in any other way,...
Letter Calls for Renewal of UN Special Rapporteur
NEW MALDEN,UNITED KINGDOM (ANS) – Christian Solidarity Worldwide and Human Rights Concern Eritrea have written to member states of the Human Rights Council (HRC)...
Herdsmen Shoot 7-year-old boy, Kill his Uncle
AKWANGA, NIGERIA (ANS) -- As a Baptist church member tried to fight off an armed Muslim Fulani herdsman in a village in north-central Nigeria,...
Miraculously delivered by God, unable to read Bible
McLEAN, VIRGINIA (ANS) -- Northern Nigeria is a dangerous place for Christians – especially for those who have left Islam to follow Christ.
But BarnabasAid...
State Dept.’s Religious Freedom Report
WASHINGTON, D.C. (ANS) – The State Department Friday (June 21) released its annual International Religious Freedom Report. China, Vietnam, Syria and Iran are featured...