Persecution

CAIRO, EGYPT (ANS) -- A young Coptic Christian man has been arrested near Cairo, Egypt for allegedly insulting Islam after a hacker posted material...

BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA (ANS) -- Andrew Brunson, an American pastor who was imprisoned in Turkey for two years before the White House intervened in October...

SANTA ANA, CALIFORNIA (ANS) -- In 2018, 1 in 9 Christians worldwide lived in places where they experience high levels of persecution for following...

NAIROBI, KENYA (ANS) -- One of two buildings of a Christian primary school in eastern Uganda was demolished after local Muslims who opposed it...

NINEVEH PLAINS, IRAQ (ANS) -- The Islamic State (ISIS) has adopted a strategy of insurgency in areas previously under the militants' control during the...

LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM (ANS) --Britain's Christian leaders have been accused of  'political correctness.' A Middle Eastern archbishop has accused Britain's Christian leaders of  'political correctness'...

NAIROBI, KENYA (ANS) -- Ugandan police have banned evangelistic events in a town in western Uganda after pastors and their converts received death threats. Ugandan...

BAGHDAD, IRAQ (ANS) – Displacement by ISIS (Islamic State) has inflicted enormous trauma on Iraq’s ever shrinking Christian community, among them the displaced elderly. Reconstruction...

HAVANA, CUBA (ANS) – The Cuban government has cancelled a church construction permit. Baptist leaders in Cuba are calling on the government to fulfill its...

JUBA, SOUTH SUDAN (ANS) -- Muslim clerics have threatened a Sudanese Christian in Cairo. Days after the Muslim leaders in Egypt came to his apartment...