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

Spiraling Islamist terrorism that has killed more than 100 people in a two-week span in the Democratic Republic of Congo is calling renewed attention to Christian persecution there.

02/17/2021 - By Diana Chandler / Baptist Press

Baptist World Alliance leaders are calling on the global Baptist community to pray, advocate and wear red ribbons as a sign of solidarity with the people of Myanmar.

02/10/2021 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

Christian and Jewish human rights leaders are remembering the Holocaust by urging international advocacy on behalf of more than 3 million innocent Uyghur Muslims held in Chinese concentration camps aimed at cultural genocide.

01/27/2021 - By Diana Chandler / Baptist Press

More than 3 million Uyghur Muslims reportedly are held forcibly in “re-education camps” in northwest China.

01/15/2021 - By Diana Chandler / Baptist Press

The COVID-19 global pandemic has exposed religious persecution in a number of countries, Open Doors reports.

01/14/2021 - By Emily McFarlan Miller / Religion News Service

Organizations focused on religious persecution reported at least four Christians in Pakistan recently were arrested for blasphemy.

01/08/2021 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

At least a dozen Christians were killed and several churches burned in Christmas Eve attacks on villages in northern Nigeria following death threats by Boko Haram Islamist militants.

01/05/2021 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

A court in Pakistan acquitted a Christian who was serving a life sentence in prison under that nation’s blasphemy laws.

12/16/2020 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

The U.S. State Department has added Nigeria to its list of countries deemed to have the most egregious violations of religious freedom.

12/10/2020 - By Adelle M. Banks / Religion News Service