As Christians we cannot ignore the violence against women that is exploding in Afghanistan with the Taliban.

The government has fled and extremists have proclaimed a new Islamic State. “With the Taliban in power, the vulnerability of believers increases tenfold”, Christian organisations warn.

The EFI has published its report on the persecution of Christians in the first six months of 2021. They have identified 145 incidents, including three murders.

The newly formed World Freedom Network (WFN) will bring together a variety of organizations and experts with a specific focus on how churches can get involved and play a unique role in addressing this issue in their own local contexts.

The confinement and the Covid-19 restrictions in the Mediterranean country led to a generalised fall in all kind of hate crimes. Statistics could be “deceitful”, says the government.

Hatun Tash is a Christian apologist who has been sharing the gospel with Muslims in the well-known Speaker’s Corner of Hyde Park.

The pastors have been charged with the crime of “public disorder”. The theological seminary of which they are co-workers thanks for the prayers.

Christians demonstrate in the streets of Tizi-Ouzou with singing and signs: “Stop the abuse of power”.

The pandemic has added more pressure to a population suffering a “humanitarian crisis”, evangelicals in the island say. “Pray that God takes control and prevents a bloodbath”.

Iran’s newly amended penal code, which states that “any deviant education or propaganda that contradicts or interferes with the sacred Sharia [Islamic law] will be severely punished”.

Even if the call to listen to the Word of God is present in these speeches, it seems to lead to an increased catholicity rather than an appeal to recover the biblical gospel.

The government welcomes the “depathologisation“ of transgender people. Critics denounce legal uncertainties, a harmful approach to children, and the “erasure“ of women.

Addressing the Human Rights Council, the UN Expert backs “intersectional gender analysis”. The World Evangelical Alliance says Christians believe “human beings are created male and female” and defends the “freedom to express this belief in the public square”.

Satanists set fire to many churches in Norway in the 1990s. Now churches are not attacked as often as they used to, and smaller denominations hardly ever experience church fires.

Six common themes for a Trinitarian approach to leading missions. An article by Joseph W. Handley.

In a strongly worded report, the WEA representatives at the United Nations Human Rights Council say the Hindu nationalist government of India “solidified the environment of hate and intolerance toward religious minorities”.

An evangelical pastor was arrested in the community of Mitzitón (Mexico) as he returned home to visit his mother. Since 1982, over 180 houses of evangelicals have been destroyed in this municipality.

The Religious Liberty Partnership denounces “the gross violation of human rights and religious freedom”. Around 700 people have been killed and over 3,000 arrested since February.

In 2017, Revelation TV was fined with 6,000 euros for allegedly attacking the dignity of LGBT people. The judge says “critiquing ideas or positions” of others is a constitutional right.

The Council had justified its decision because of previous comments on sexuality of one of the speakers. Now it admits that it "acted unlawfully” and against religious freedom.

The pastor and a bookstore salesman were condemned for “distributing publications or any other propaganda undermining the faith of a Muslim”.

Harvard, Princeton and Yale experts say the prosecution of the Christian parliamentarian for incitement against homosexuals “will compel Finland’s lay religious believers to choose between prison and abandoning teachings of their various faiths”. 

Evangelicals, Catholics, Jews, Muslims and Orthodoxs, issue a joint statement warning about the increase of “gratuitous attacks” and an increasing misunderstanding of the limits of freedom of speech.

In Finland, a documentary film is being produced about the Christian politician prosecuted for expressing her views about the Bible and homosexuality.

An evangelical pastor says terrorists roam freely in presence of security personnel. Churches affected by herdsmen attacks in the area include Baptists, Pentecostals, Anglicans, and Catholics.