It's reported that a Christian brick kiln worker has been freed from a life of slavery and torture after a British organization agreed to pay a ransom to free him.
Those accused not only face criminal prosecution but also the risk of being killed extrajudicially by mobs who decide to take the law into their own hands.
One of the Islamic State's victims was a man from Chad who had not been a Christian prior to the day ISIS cruelly executed him and 20 Coptic Christians from Egypt in cold blood.
Is Franklin Graham selling #FakeNews about Christian persecution? There seems to be great confusion about the statistics on global Christian martyrdom. Persecution matters, but we undermine it if we over-sell it.
Franklin Graham has called Christians to stand against the global 'Christian genocide', saying that 100,000 believers are killed every year for their faith.
Justin Welby, the Archbishop of Canterbury, has preached a powerful sermon in Jerusalem declaring that the presence of Christians is 'essential to the life and hope of this whole area'.
A court in Pakistan has sentenced a Christian man to life imprisonment under the country's blasphemy law for allegedly sending "blasphemous" text messages from his mobile phone.
Christian Solidarity Worldwide, one of the UK's leading anti-persecution organisations, has been given long-awaited UN accreditation. The organization, which is based in London, but camapigns for the protection of Christians across the world, had been waiting for eight years to receive the accreditation.