We join up the dots of life around us to create our own narratives, to explain the realities that we perceive.
Carmen Hombre Ponzoa, a teacher in Spain, was imprisoned and later executed while pregnant, together with her husband. She belonged to the small Protestant minority.
For Lebanese followers of Christ, the call to peacemaking is not just a moral ideal and an expression of our love for God, but also a necessity for the survival of a diverse nation.
The exclusion of God from our lives inevitably leads to an escalation of violence, as James writes in his New Testament letter.
The state, local authorities and the displaced Christians reach an agreement to restore supplies and give evangelicals time to assess damages and request state-sponsored aid.
At least 10 people were murdered and 30 kidnapped, including religious leaders, during several Sunday morning worship services, in just 2 weeks.
The Observatory for Religious Freedom in Africa finds that Christians were the largest group of victims, with over 16,700 deaths.
“As churches, we mourn with the families and pray for them”, said German Christian leaders. The murder of 3 people has added fuel to the political fight over migration.
Attackers “burned the evangelical church, took the land, stole their cattle and destroyed the homes of 13 Christians”, pastors in the region denounce.
Chinantec evangelicals attacked for having a chosen religious identity that goes against the traditional one are denied their constitutional rights by Oaxacan officials.
“Due to the threats, many Christians refused to stand as witnesses in court”, says one of the residents who filed a complaint. 11 more persons accused of blasphemy have lost their lives in the past 18 months.
Residents said herdsmen also attacked other predominantly Christian villages in the Ukum area in the past three months
Christians discuss the recent unrest on an online roundtable. Over 400 people were arrested across the UK due to the disorders.
The victims are farmers and were working when 20 heavily armed assailants attacked. One of the Christians was shot and his hands was shattered.
Throughout the centuries, Christianity and the Olympic Games have had an ambivalent relationship. For good reasons. But today Christians have come to see major sports gatherings as God-given opportunities for evangelism.
A Christian perspective on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Evangelicals denounce that Nigerian government “has failed to protect civilians, most particularly Christians, from the increase of brutal acts of violence”.
At least 53 people died in demonstrations against the new economic plan. “It is time we all genuinely reach out to each other”, say evangelical leaders.
The Anglican Church of Pakistan welcomes an initiative that will “pave the way for unified action on forced conversions of underage girls and misuse of the blasphemy laws”.
In the last month, mobs lynched a Muslim resident, and beat a 74-year-old Christian with stones, accusing them of breaking blasphemy laws.
Gunmen fire two orthodox churches, a synagogue and a police post, killing 16 policemen and 5 civilians including a priest.
Daniel Ortega’s objective is to cancel Nicaragua’s civil society including churches that refuse to be subservient to the regime.
Many in the country express grief after Natalie Lloyd, Davy Lloyd and Jude Montis were murdered by gang members as they were returning from church.
The widow said her husband’s employers tortured him because they wrongly suspected he had stolen goats from their farm. He died 10 days later.
Christians who were forced to leave their homes and are now penalised in a decision that violates human rights protections under Mexican law.
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