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Christians pray in the streets in Sri Lanka. (Photo: Release International) In 2019, Sri Lanka was shaken by a series of Easter Sunday suicide bombings that killed over 270 people, including 11 Indians. The attacks, carried out by the local Islamist extremist group National Thawheed Jamaat (NTJ) linked to ISIS, targeted three churches and three … Read more
Burnt Bibles from the attacks on Christians in Manipur. (Photo: Open Doors) Two Catholic priests were seriously injured in a violent robbery at a church in Odisha, sparking concerns over the safety of the Christian minority community in the region. The incident occurred in the early hours of Saturday, June 15, at the Jhorabahal parish in Sundergarh … Read more
Margaret Attah receiving ACN’s first ever ‘Courage to be a Christian’ award in London in November 2023. (Photo: Aid to the Church in Need) A terror attack on a church in south-west Nigeria has not dampened the faith of its congregation as worshippers continue to fill the pews two years on. Forty-one worshippers were killed … Read more
JERUSALEM, Israel – Excavators from the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) have uncovered Byzantine-era church walls from 1,500 years ago containing drawings of ships in a dig south of the Bedouin Arab town of Rahat. The location is north of the Israeli city of Beersheva and east-southeast of the Gaza Strip. “These intriguing drawings may have been … Read more
First ever female bishop, the Right Reverend Violet Nayak. The images are from Anglican Communion X page. Anglican Communion is a global movement of Christians in 42 autonomous member Churches across more than 165 countries. (Photo: Anglican Communion/X) In a historic moment for gender equality, the Church of North India (CNI) has consecrated its first … Read more
(Photo: Release International) Appeals have been made to the international community to put pressure on Eritrea to uphold religious liberty after the death of a church leader in prison. Rev Ghirmay Araya was one of the founding fathers of the Full Gospel Church in Eritrea and was arrested and jailed for his faith in 2021, … Read more
(Photo: Unsplash/Kelly Sikkema) The Church of England has failed to return to pre-pandemic levels of attendance, latest figures show. Average weekly attendance at services rose by nearly five per cent to 685,000 in 2023, new data published by the Church on Monday reveals. It marks a third year of consecutive growth for the Church of … Read more
The former Byzantine cathedral has been turned into a mosque. (Photo: Unsplash/Engin Akyurt) Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan officially inaugurated a former Byzantine-era church previously known as the Church of the Holy Saviour in Chora, a United Nations World Heritage Site, as a mosque this week, drawing condemnation from the Greek government. The change is … Read more
(Photo: Unsplash/Udayaditya Barua) The influential Nagaland Baptist Church Council (NBCC), an umbrella organisation representing nearly 1,500 Baptist churches in the north-eastern state, has firmly declined an offer from the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to undertake a cleanliness drive at church compounds on 11 May 2024. In a strongly worded statement issued on April 30, … Read more
(Photo: Unsplash/Mitchell Leach) While the number of Catholics worldwide slightly increased from 2021 to 2022, new statistics show that the number of priests continues to decline. The Vatican released the 2024 Pontifical Yearbook and the 2022 Statistical Yearbook of the Church earlier this month. Edited by the Vatican Secretariat of State’s Central Statistical Office, the publications are being distributed … Read more