Christian News

A Christian-run school caring for hundreds of impoverished and orphaned children as young as 2 near Kenya’s largest garbage dump has been forced from its premises by local authorities, with many youngsters returning to the sprawling dumpsite, its director told Worthy News Saturday.

At least 47 people were killed and more than 50 others were kidnapped after armed gangs stormed the hilltop community of Kenscoff, near Haiti’s capital, in one of the latest brutal attacks to shake the country’s collapsing security landscape.

Authorities in Belarus have launched criminal cases against two Christian religious freedom defenders living abroad and are seeking their arrest and return through Russia’s federal arrest system, rights activists confirmed.

A young Christian cable technician was recovering Wednesday in Pakistan’s second-largest city, Lahore, where he was allegedly abducted, physically assaulted, and threatened at gunpoint in an attempt to force him to abandon his Christian faith.

Families of people they say were prosecuted in Pakistan on fabricated blasphemy charges are demanding legal action against an alleged “blasphemy business gang” accused of using young women to lure men into online honey traps before implicating them in offenses against Islam.

Concerns remained Monday over Christian leader Dedi Saputra after a court in Indonesia’s Aceh Province sentenced the convert from Islam to two years in prison for an online video deemed insulting to Islam’s prophet Muhammad.

Residents discovered the body of a murdered Christian teenager in Pakistan’s Punjab province after authorities detained police suspects in the case, Christian investigators told Worthy News on Monday.

Concern was mounting Monday about a Christian in northwestern China who was detained for listening to the Bible stored on a USB memory stick plugged into his car’s audio system, amid a wider crackdown on Christian activities in the Communist-run nation, Christian sources said.

A young Christian man was recovering from extensive injuries Saturday after he was allegedly attacked by a group of Muslims for intervening when Christian women were being harassed in Pakistan’s Punjab province, Christian representatives said.

Sudanese Christians and their supporters used the United Nations’ annual “International Day Commemorating the Victims of Acts of Violence Based on Religion or Belief” on Saturday to condemn what they called a growing wave of killings, abductions and attacks against Christians in Sudan’s Nuba Mountains.

New evidence has emerged suggesting that this week’s massacre of Christians in Nigeria’s Plateau State was part of coordinated attacks on several predominantly Christian communities, as questions mounted over why security forces allegedly failed to intervene despite advance warnings.

Kevin Rideout, an American Christian missionary who spent more than nine months in captivity after being abducted by suspected Islamic militants in Niger, and his wife thanked believers for their prayers after they were reunited.

Egyptian archaeologists say new discoveries in northeastern Egypt may help identify a long-lost ancient city that stood along one of the most important military roads of the ancient world — a route many scholars have connected to the biblical account of the Exodus.

Pakistani Christians have expressed concern after Pakistan’s Supreme Court released details of its decision to acquit the last three men sentenced to death over the 2014 mob killing of a Christian couple who were beaten and burned alive in a brick kiln following blasphemy allegations.

The United States government passed a sobering milestone Wednesday as the national debt topped $40 trillion, up from $39 trillion only five months ago.