"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.

Open Doors has published a list that ranks the 50 toughest states for Christians to live. Islamic extremism is the main cause of persecution.

Fulani herdsmen, suicide bomber ring in new year with violence in three states.

Juan Francisco Martinez is an expert who knows well the Hispanic church in the United States. He clarifies some aspects of the Obama initiative which affects more than five million immigrants who live in a illegal situation.

The evangelicals, like the rest of the citizens, hope that the new relationship with the United States will bring improvement on their daily lives.

Terror group ISIS has reportedly killed over 150 women and girls, some of them believed to be pregnant, for refusing to become sex slaves and marry jihadists.

The Saudi Arabian government has reportedly passed a law that imposes the death penalty on people caught smuggling Bibles into the majority-Muslim country.

Pastor Saeed Abedini pens moving Christmas letter from prison to family and believers: 'These days are very cold here'

Most of the victims were students in grades 1-10 at the army public school.