Over 1,000 religious communities which had legal status under Ukrainian law, are no longer recognised as legal entities under Russian law.

Several Leyva Velazquez community leaders asked evangelical Christians to renounce their faith.

Christmas and New Year celebrations are banned because “are contrary to Islamic culture, and could damage the faith of the Muslim community.”

New parties Ciudadanos and Podemos share their views about religious freedom and minorities. They would end the privileges of the Roman Catholic Church.

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.

Christianity is in danger of ceasing to be a global faith as increasing numbers of its followers flee violence and persecution across the Middle East and Africa, new report says.

Extremist violence, the rise of anti-Semitism in Western Europe,and blasphemy and apostasy laws, are the biggest threats for religious freedom worldwide.

Kim Davis stopped issuing marriage licenses to all couples in June after the legalisation of gay marriage in USA.

A guide about religion in the Spanish armed forces warns about the privilege of the Roman Catholic Church over other confessions, especially in religious assistance.

More than 60 Christian families have been denied help after the flood, just because they have not left their faith.

A committee of the security forces will collect information and provide practical measures regarding the violence and abuse suffered by Christians in Iraq.

“We don't have any mosques in Slovakia so how can Muslims be integrated if they are not going to like it here?” Interior ministry spokesman Ivan Metik said.

Other artists threatened to cancel their shows unless prominent hip-hop singer Matisyahu publicly accepted ideas of anti-Israel lobby group DBS.

A court in Sudan has freed pastors Yat Michael and Peter Yein Reith after acquitting them of charges that include spying and crimes against the state.

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.”

Alejandro Cao, the regime’s Delegate for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries, attacks evangelicals on Twitter. 

The Bibles are being sent into North Korea via balloon launches. People in North Korea who own a Bible can be executed.

Pakistan’s Supreme Court decided to repeat the trial against the Christian believer, accused of “blasphemy.” Lawyer hopes she will be cleared of all charges.

“No one shall attempt to change or convert someone from one religion to another”, the new Constitution draft says. Christians and Muslims have raised serious objections.

“We are very quick to criticise street preachers”, says British street preacher who faces a retrial at the end of July. 

The students were charged of “committing an indecent act which violates public morality”, according to Sudanese law. Sudan’s government has increased persecution of Christians.

If attacks were to recur, would it not be appropriate to ask the LGBT community not to hide, and to speak up in defence of freedom of expression and conscience for every citizen?