The “blasphemy business group’s” actions are “said to have ensnared more than 400 innocent people, including Christians, in a surge of false blasphemy cases in the last two years,” the news sources say.
Fifteen more Nigerian Christians have been killed as factions opposed to believers continue their massacres and wreak havoc upon churches and communities.
In January, Kyrgyzstan’s president signed a new religion law that further represses faith communities by limiting their existence, worship and literature and prohibiting public witnessing.
More than 9 in 10 U.S. Protestant pastors (93%) say their church has engaged in at least one of six ways to bring attention to Christians suffering persecution within the past year, according to a Lifeway Research study.
Nigeria has led the world in the number of Christians killed for their faith. Nigeria is No. 7 on Open Doors’ 2025 World Watch List of places most difficult to be a Christian.
Two Christian brothers in Pakistan have been acquitted of the false blasphemy charges that had been brought against them.
The girl was lured Jan. 9 from her home in Sialkot in Pakistan’s Punjab province, then forced into a van and taken away, her father told Christian Daily International and Morning Star News.
Abdulai Ramadan’s wife allegedly attacked him Jan. 20, furious that he was conducting the Bible study after she had demanded that he renounce his faith in Jesus Christ.
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