News & Reports

By AsiaNews – The High Lahore Court has acquitted two men accused of lynching and burning alive Shahzad and Shama Masih, a poor Christian couple they believed to be guilty of blasphemy. In [...]

By Asia News – Iraqi leaders and the powers-that-be must “put their political differences aside, and be the voice of moderation, national sovereignty and tolerance,” writes [...]

By Gilgamesh Nabeel and Mina Nader – Religion News Service –  A Saudi billionaire whose father endowed a chair in comparative religion at the American University in Cairo has [...]

By AINA – Four Assyrian children and one Assyrian woman were killed in a terrorist attack on the government controlled town of Suqaylabiyah, in the Hama province of Syria. The funeral [...]

By BBC– Gunmen have killed six people including a priest as Mass was being celebrated in a church in Dablo in northern Burkina Faso, officials say. The attackers, said to number between 20 [...]

By Euan McKirdy and Sophia Saifi – CNN Asia Bibi, a Pakistani Christian woman freed from death row last year has arrived in Canada, according to her lawyer, Saif Ul Malook. Bibi, a mother [...]

By Jack Doyle, Associate Editor for The Daily Mail – Christians are ‘by far the most persecuted’ religious group and are enduring what amounts to genocide in some parts of the [...]

By The Wall Street Journal – Copts face increasing threats under a regime they once hoped would make them more secure. MINYA, Egypt—Egypt’s Coptic Christian minority is facing a surge in [...]

By The Wall Street Journal – White House says effort is ‘working its way through the internal process.’ The Trump administration is seeking to designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a foreign [...]

By Watani – The priests of the de-facto church in the Minya village of Ezbet Naguib in Matai, some 220km south of Cairo, have filed an application to Minya Governor asking for licence to [...]