It could be a scene from a Victorian Christmas card. The young people gather in the church, decorating a tree, while in the background the choir rehearses for Christmas Day — the tune of God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen playing out. (more…)

Rima, whose sister was murdered by Saddam Hussein’s officers, is going to America. Hani, another Christian, is off to Sweden after being kidnapped by a Baghdad militia. Michael Marody, whose cousin was likewise abducted but did not come back alive, is heading for Australia. (more…)

The 1990 Cairo Declaration, or so-called “Universal Declaration of Human Rights in Islam”, was drafted and subsequently ratified by all the Muslim member nations of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC). (more…)

With at least 43 incidents of anti-Christian violence, Karnataka saw more attacks on Christians in the first eight months of this year than any other state in India, according to advocacy organizations. (more…)

A Christian couple has been granted asylum in the U.K. after a Muslim man kidnapped them for several months, beat them and tried to force them to recant their faith. (more…)

One ministry doesn’t want Christians in Iran to be overlooked, as media attention is focused on that country’s president and his address to the United Nations. (more…)

A Christian doctor abducted by an armed gang overnight from her home near the northern Iraqi city of Mosul was released on Sunday evening, police said. (more…)

Five ex-Muslims who founded a group called Former Muslims United put out a public appeal Thursday to the U.S. government for protection, saying the lives of thousands of “apostates from Islam” are in peril. (more…)

Thousand of Jews in Southern California will be observing Yom Kippur. It begins tonight at sunset. (more…)

The situation of detained Christians in Eritrea has worsened, amid reports that a Christian man held in the country’s notorious Wi’a Military Camp has died of meningitis, following an outbreak in the prison, BosNewsLife learned Tuesday September 22. (more…)