Headline News from around the Southeast for Dec. 16

December 16, 2021

Arkansas How do you almost triple a church’s missions budget and increase a church’s Cooperative Program gifts by more than 40% over the course of

Muslim extremists decapitate Christian, kill pastor in Uganda

December 12, 2021

KAMPALA, Uganda — Muslim extremists in eastern Uganda decapitated a Christian church elder and killed a pastor in unrelated incidents. In Luuka District, extremists killed

Vietnamese church accused of starting deadly COVID wave

December 8, 2021

HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam — A pastoral couple and 11 congregants were questioned in a criminal investigation accusing their church of starting a COVID-19

Body of Christian lynched for blasphemy in Pakistan arrives in Sri Lanka

December 7, 2021

The charred body of a factory manager who was lynched by a mob in Pakistan for alleged blasphemy was returned to his native Sri Lanka

Militants kill 11 Christians, abduct others in Nigeria

December 3, 2021

JOS, Nigeria — Eleven people were killed and dozens of others kidnapped in October in ongoing rampages of Muslim Fulani militants upon Christians in Nigeria.

Two Christian workers die saving another in Pakistan

December 1, 2021

SARGODHA, Pakistan — Two Christian sanitation workers died Oct. 3 saving another Christian overcome by toxic gases in a sewer. Faisal Masih and Nadeem Masih

Religious liberty watchers decry State Department decision to delist Nigeria

December 1, 2021

Christian groups and religious liberty watchdogs are criticizing the U.S. State Department’s decision to exclude Nigeria from a list of countries which engage in or