The persecution of Christians “vastly rose” in 2012 as radical Islamists consolidated power in Africa, according to Open Doors, a Christian missionary organization that publishes
ZANZIBAR, Tanzania — Suspected Islamic extremists on Christmas Day shot a Roman Catholic priest on the Tanzanian island of Zanzibar, seriously wounding him, area church
JOS, Nigeria — Christmas Eve attacks by suspected Islamic extremists in northern Nigeria’s Borno state took the lives of six people at a Baptist church,
A young man came to the United States to look for work because he needed to support his aging parents,” wrote Polaris Project, an organization that
JUBA, South Sudan — Sudanese authorities have arrested two priests of the Coptic Orthodox Church in Sudan and accused them of baptizing a convert from
BELEDWEYNE, Somalia — Gunmen in central Somalia killed an underground Christian on Dec. 8 who had been receiving death threats for leaving Islam, area sources
Christians are the world’s largest religious group and are nearly evenly dispersed globally, according to a new Pew study on the size, geographic distribution and
It may not have felt like it, because a lot of people burned the candle at both ends in 2012, but in a variety of
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