A child received 60 lashes to his back for simply referring to Daesh by the very term they hate.

Assyrian Christian minority was the target, says Syrian Human Rights group based in London. “I feel so helpless. Cannot do anything for them but pray,” say relatives.

Preacher said ISIS soldiers had merely been following the precepts of the Quran as they killed 21 Coptic Christians in Libya.

They had been abducted by the Libyan branch of Islamic State in two different incidents in December and January. Egypt's military reacted by attacking Islamic State targets in Libya on Monday. 

The International Leadership Forum (ILF) in Tegucigalpa (Honduras) closed by commending Efraim Tendero as the new General Secretary of the World Evangelical Alliance.

A coalition formed by 7,800 soldiers from Nigeria, Niger, Cameroon and Benin hopes to defeat the terrorist group before the election.

And using mentally-challenged kids as suicide bombers, says UN Watchdog

31 cases of attacks on Christians registered in December alone. Believers create United Christian Forum with helpline. 

Efraim Tendero told Evangelical Focus that challenges for the Gospel include “secularism and humanism dictating the agenda in today's society” and the “progress of Islam”.

The Chinese Communist Party worries that, on current trends, China will be the largest Protestant country in the world by around 2030.

Almost 20% of Latin Americans identified themselves as Evangelicals. Catholic Church has lost members through religious switching.

Apparent death of kidnapped journalist follows days of back-door negotiations between Islamic State and government Shinzo Abe

“Complete restoration is possible only through Christ”, said Matthew and Suha Daniel to Evangelical Focus. They work for Project Rescue, an organization that fights against sexual slavery in India and other regions.

Christians in Niger are “joyfully meeting in homes under police protection as they plan to rebuild church buildings and houses after attacks last weekend (Jan. 16-18)”, reports the Morning Star News Agency.

Efraim Tendero, the National Director of the Philippine Council of Evangelical Churches, is WEA's next Secretary General and CEO.

"This act of terrorism is outrageous and unforgivable violence. I feel strong anger and firmly condemn it," Japanese prime minister Abe told reporters Saturday, he also demands the immediate release of Goto.

“We live in a global village and Africans understand the village life better- each person's problem is everyone's problem”, said AEA leader to Evangelical Focus. Christians in the continent ask Muslims to condemn violence against Christians. 

Kenji Goto Jogo, one of the two Japanese hostages taken by Islamic State in Syria, is a Christian who “has a strong sense of justice”, according to former pastor H. Tamura.

Believers under pressure after 45 Churches are burnt. Government arrests 90 violent protestors. Reports come in about Islamists marking Christian homes.

The Haifa District Attorney’s Office filed an indictment on Sunday, against seven Israeli Arabs, including a lawyer from Nazareth, for their alleged role in attempting to set up a branch of Islamic State in Israel.

United Nations refugee Commissioner alerts on worst crisis in 60 years. “More than a quarter of the population of Lebanon is now Syrian”.

Radicals burn down 7 churches, most of them of evangelical comunities. Violent reactions in Pakistan, Jordan and Algeria.

“They chased our women and children, and detained our colleague Manuel Gomez Gomez, who is now in prison”. Representatives of 200 families ask for an open dialogue with the State government.

Statement does not give nationalities but Egypt says 20 of its citizens have been abducted in two separate incidents in Libya

While the whole western World was following the events in France, first reports came in about another terrorist attack. Just now media start to look at Nigeria's biggest tragedy: 16 villages destroyed and hundreds dead.