As religious freedom summit ends, US State Department announces new alliance, sanctions
Washington, DCRNS Trump administration officials announced a new alliance with US partners focused on religious freedom and new sanctions against foreign military officials supporting countries the US considers to be instigators of religious persecution. The developments on Thursday were among the highlights of the last day of the State Department’s Ministerial to Advance Religious Freedom. […]
US conference to host victims of religious persecution
Washington, DCReuters The US State Department said on Thursday it would host a conference in Washington next week to highlight the problem of religious persecution, and has invited victims of recent attacks at a synagogue in San Diego, mosques in New Zealand and an Easter Day bombing in Sri Lanka. US ambassador for religious freedom, […]
Prince Charles calls for Middle East peace at service for persecuted Christians
RNS The British heir to the throne, who would become Supreme Governor of the Church of England when he becomes king, made an unprecedented plea for peace in the Middle East at a special service for persecuted Christians in London on Tuesday. Prince Charles, the Prince of Wales, delivered his own personal reflection on the […]
As refugee admissions drop, fewer persecuted Christians admitted to US: World Relief
RNS The number of Christian refugees coming to the United States from the countries where Christians are most persecuted has dropped dramatically under President Trump’s administration. That comes despite the President’s pledge during his first week in office that helping persecuted Christians overseas would be a priority for his administration. Thousands of Syrian refugees walk in order […]
ESSAY: WHY EVANGELICAL CHRISTIANS – AND ALL OF US – SHOULD STAND UP FOR THE UIGHURS
US Baptist Minister BOB ROBERTS on why Christians – and evangelical Christians in particular – should stand up for Uighur Muslims facing persecution in China…
ESSAY: STOP THE ‘WEAPONISATION’ OF RELIGION IN PAKISTANI POLITICS
As Pakistanis head to the polls, Rev JOHNNIE MOORE and GAYLE MANCHIN – who both serve on the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom – call for “unrelenting pressure” for the nation’s government to stop the harassment of the country’s religious minorities…
Call for UN to establish international day for victims of religious persecution
World Watch Monitor Local priest Father Daniel shows one of the many houses destroyed by Islamic State in the Iraqi town of Bashiqa, near Mosul, where Christians are slowly returning. PICTURE: Courtesy of Open Doors International. The United Nations should establish an International Day Commemorating the Victims and Survivors of Religious Persecution, say parliamentarians in […]
Thirteen men sentenced in Pakistan for lynching Christian couple in 2014
World Watch Monitor (with DAVID ADAMS) An anti-terrorism court in Lahore, Pakistan, on Wednesday sentenced five men to death for the murder of a Christian couple who were burned alive in November 2014 for setting fire to some pages from a Qur’an. A mob of about 600 people beat to near-death Shahzad Masih, 26, and his five-months-pregnant […]
Gunmen kill four nuns and 12 others in Yemen
World Watch Monitor Four Catholic nuns from the late Mother Teresa’s Missionaries of Charity were among 16 victims killed by six unidentified gunmen at a home for the elderly in Yemen’s southern port city of Aden. The four missionary nurses were serving breakfast to the home’s 80 residents on 4th March when armed assailants stormed […]