More than 1,100 Christian teachers who have fled since al-Shabab began coming across the border into northern Kenya from Somalia in 2017, mostly targeting non-Muslim teachers.

01/15/2019 - By Doreen Ajiambo / Religion News Service

In a small single-room house in the Banaadir district of Somalia, dozens of Christians worship in secret out of fear of persecution in a country where no official churches exist.

01/08/2019 - By Tonny Onyulo / Religion News Service

Baptists and other adherents of minority religions in Bulgaria received a Christmas blessing a few days early when the nation’s Parliament removed the most prohibitive provisions of its Religious Denominations Act before a final vote Dec. 21.

12/21/2018 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

Members of Early Rain Covenant Church in Chengdu, China, tried to meet together for Sunday worship on Dec. 16, only to have police reportedly detain about 60 people and shut down outdoor services. Several small groups found spaces to meet and worship without incident.

12/19/2018 - By June Cheng / World Magazine

The U.S. House of Representatives voted to declare Myanmar’s military campaign against its Rohingya Muslim minority as “genocide,” but some insist the plight of Christians in the Southeast Asian nation has remained largely unnoticed.

12/13/2018 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

U.S. Secretary of State Michael Pompeo added Pakistan to a list of the world’s worst violators of religious freedom, while removing Uzbekistan from the list and singling out nine Islamist groups as Entities of Particular Concern.

12/13/2018 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

As China continues to hunt down and arrest members of a house church in Sichuan Province, many of the 100 or more Christians arrested reportedly pledged in advance to persevere even until death.

12/12/2018 - By Diana Chandler / Baptist Press

Military personnel and plainclothes police raided and ransacked an unregistered Baptist church in Uzbekistan’s capital city during Sunday worship Nov. 25, a Norway-based news service reported.

12/04/2018 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

Larry Pepper was employed at his dream job as a NASA flight surgeon, but it soon became evident God was drawing him to move his family to serve with the Southern Baptist Convention’s International Mission Board in Africa.

12/03/2018 - By IMB Staff

For the third consecutive Sunday, Bulgarian Christians gathered in their nation’s capital to pray and protest proposed restrictions on religious freedom.

11/27/2018 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

The last reported sighting of American missionary John Allen Chau was Nov. 17. Although he knew the danger, Chou went as a missionary to the Sentinelese because they reportedly are among the world’s 400 to 600 unengaged unreached people groups.

11/27/2018 - By David Roach / Baptist Press

Christians in Bulgaria pledged to continue public prayer meetings and peaceful protests until the nation’s lawmakers either withdraw legislation that would severely restrict religious freedom or make substantive changes to it.

11/20/2018 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor