Nearly three hours after the attack began, firing had stopped but troops were searching Bacha Khan University campus in Charsadda. 

The kids keep asking me, ‘When are we going to see him?’, Naghmeh Abedini says. The exchange happened on the same day that the USA observes Religious Freedom Day.

Seven explosions in the central disctrict of the Indonesion capital. Two civilians died, one of them is Dutch. “The situation is under control”, the police said. Daesh claimed responsibility of the attack.

Pyongyang said the test was “self-defence against the US nuclear weapons”. It has provoked a worldwide opposition and scepticism

Sixty signatures from people of a different faith and a permission from the local authority are needed to build a church. Closures and violence against Christians have not stopped the Church from growing.

The regime gets its own agents to act as clergymen, to convince the Western visitors that there was religious freedom in the country.

The war-torn country is ruled by Sharia law, and 99% of the population is Muslim. One of the victims “had been receiving direct threats from Al Qaeda members that he knew personally.”

Iraq’s Christian community is opposing a new law forcing children to become Muslims if their father converts to Islam or their mother marries a Muslim.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi was greeted by noisy crowds outside Downing Street, in protest at ongoing religious persecution in India..

A Roman Catholic agency informs about an ecumenical meeting which would have brought 150 representatives of 7 religions to North Korea this week. 

The Control Commission that supervises the conditions stipulated by the law of 2002 decided to send the case to justice by unanimity

Pakistan’s Supreme Court has called on the state to ensure that hundreds of people facing imprisonment under controversial blasphemy laws have not been falsely charged.

First Mission China 2030 Conference was attended by 900 evangelical pastors. 200 missionary commitments were made as the first step toward fulfilling this vision.

8000 Christians and counting flee Indonesia province Aceh Singkil following church arson and demolishings.

The explosions occurred at two sides of the exit of Ankara’s main train station, in the city centre. More than 180 people were wounded.

At least 717 pilgrims killed and more than 800 injured in crush at Mina outside Mecca, during the Hajj's last major rite.

“Right-to-die bill” was rejected by 330 votes to 118, in the first vote on the assited dying in almost 20 years.

Anglican leader Justin Welby and the UK Evangelical Alliance “strongly oppose” euthanasia. Former Prime minister Gordon Brown argues palliative is the solution.

34 church leaders in the British city of Wolverhampton have signed a letter against Labour MP Rob Marris´ assisted dying bill, expected to be debated next week.

In 2013, they launched 500,000 Christian flyers and 50,000 New Testaments. A computer app enables them to have a good launch.

A series of enormous explosions killed at least 50 people and injured more than 700. Greenpeace warned “certain chemicals will pose a risk to the residents.”

Pastor Bao Guohua, his wife, and 5 other church employees have been falsely accused of embezzlement and disrupting social order. 1,200 crosses have already been removed.

Hyeon Soo Lim visited the country more than 100 times, helping build an orphanage and a nursing home. After six months detained, he appeared apologising for his “indescribable treason”. 

Pastor attacked by extremists: “I asked one police officer why they did not intervene when the mob beat us up right in front of the police station. He replied that it was not his duty to intervene outside the police station.”

Government will ask 12,000 firms to prove they do not have trafficked workers in their supply chains.