Jihadists are blamed for killing 160 people in Burkina Faso in a prolonged weekend attack among the latest in violent religious persecution in Africa’s Sahel region.

06/09/2021 - By Diana Chandler / Baptist Press

A court in Pakistan on June 3 overturned the death sentence handed down to a Christian couple convicted of blasphemy in 2014.

06/04/2021 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

Mart Green, founder and CEO of Mardel Christian & Education, is helping lead a Bible translation project featuring a variety of organizations with the goal of translating the Bible into all known languages by the year 2033.

05/10/2021 - By Timothy Cockes / Baptist Press

Send Relief has been mobilizing ministry partners in Asia to serve people in need following the major surge in COVID-19 cases in India.

05/07/2021 - By Natalie Sarrett / Baptist Press

Boko Haram and affiliated Islamic terrorists are poised to form a caliphate in Sub-Saharan Africa, international religious liberty leaders said.

05/03/2021 - By Diana Chandler / Baptist Press

Seven years after Boko Haram kidnapped 276 girls from a majority Christian school in Chibok, Nigeria, U.S. religious freedom advocates are lamenting escalating religious persecution in the African country.

04/19/2021 - By Diana Chandler / Baptist Press

Pastor Cecil Richards is working with members of his Kingstown Baptist Church to help feed people in St. Vincent who have been evacuated due to the volcanic eruption on the island nation.

04/16/2021 - By Adelle M. Banks / Religion News Service

Clara Thethtet Tunwin and other organizers planned a mass protest on April 10  in Washington, D.C., against the coup in Myanmar.

04/12/2021 - By Bob Smietana / Religion News Service

The Dellana West O’Brien school building was destroyed when a man in the community who was angry over a land dispute allegedly drove a bulldozer through the campus.

04/08/2021 - By Grace Thornton / Baptist Press

A surge in school kidnappings in northwestern Nigeria is blamed loosely on bandits rather than clearly defined Islamic terrorist groups, according to news reports. However, Christians remain at greater risk of harm than Muslims.

03/05/2021 - By Diana Chandler / Baptist Press

A Jehovah’s Witness has been sentenced to two years in a Russian prison for practicing her faith, marking the first time the country has imprisoned a woman since a 2017 ruling that declared the faith group “extremist.”

02/26/2021 - By Adelle M. Banks / Religion News Service

A pair of young Christians in Pakistan have been charged with violating that nation’s blasphemy law—an offense that carries a mandatory death penalty if the accused is found guilty.

02/18/2021 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor