Suspected jihadists killed 24 Christians during a church service in Burkina Faso, including the church pastor. Eighteen others were wounded in the attack. Read more: Morning Star News
Human Rights Watch submitted recommendations to the EU, asking to focus on five priority areas regarding the dire human rights situation in Vietnam, during the 9th European Union-Vietnam Human Rights Dialogue. Read more: International Christian Concern
Boko Haram destroyed three worship sites and an unspecified number of houses in northeast Nigeria, displacing thousands. Read more: Morning Star News
The Kurdish-led Autonomous Administration of Northeast Syria has announced that with the support of the Finnish Government, a special court will be established next month that will try foreign ISIS members. Read more: International Christian Concern
Following a two-and-a-half-year legal battle, a court in India’s Madhya Pradesh state acquitted eight Christians falsely accused of attempting to forcefully convert 60 children to Christianity while accompanying them to Bible camp. Read more: International Christian Concern
It has been two years since Leah Sharibu and 109 other girls were kidnapped from their school in Dapchi, Nigeria by Boko Haram. Leah is the only girl from that incident who is still in captivity because she has been unwilling to recant her faith in Christ. Read more: International Christian Concern
Three people were killed yesterday and two others injured when suspected al-Shabaab militants laid siege to a passenger bus traveling from Mandera to Nairobi, Kenya. Read more: International Christian Concern
A pastor in northeastern India was banished from a village where he led a regular worship service after Hindu nationalists falsely accused him of engaging in illegal conversions. Read more: International Christian Concern
A 14-year-old Christian girl from Lahore, was kidnapped, and forced to marry and convert to Islam by a group of Muslim men. Five days after the abduction, police were able to rescue the young girl and return her to her family. Read more: International Christian Concern
A public inquiry into the disappearance of Pastor Joshua and Ruth Hilmy begins today, after the couple went missing in November 2016. It has already revealed the pastor had been recently contacted by unnamed religious authorities. Read more: International Christian Concern
