anti-Christian attacks
Australian police arrest 7 alleged teen extremists linked to stabbing of a bishop in a Sydney church
By Mark Baker and Rod Mcguirk — April 24, 2024
SYDNEY (AP) —The seven, aged 15 to 17, were part of a network that included a 16-year-old boy accused of stabbing a bishop in a Sydney church on April 15, police said.
Islamist Nigerian militants press attacks against Christians to foment religious war
By Tonny Onyulo — February 23, 2024
ABUJA, Nigeria (RNS) — The militants 'want to use religion to achieve their target of destabilizing the country and establishing an Islamic state,' said a local evangelical Christian pastor.
The abuse of Christian women in Manipur tells a tragic story of the new India
By Joseph D'Souza — July 24, 2023
(RNS) — Indian authorities are ignoring attacks by radicalized Hindus on Christians.
Holy Land Christians say attacks rising in far-right Israel
By Isabel Debre — April 14, 2023
JERUSALEM (RNS) — The uptick in anti-Christian incidents comes as the Israeli settler movement, galvanized by its allies in government, appears to have seized the moment to expand its enterprise in the contested capital.
As faiths shift underfoot, a TED-like gathering aims at rebalancing
By Kyle Desrosiers — February 15, 2023
(RNS) — Two friends from seminary in Texas launched a new festival to foster conversations about our changing religious communities that they felt were missing in civic life.
How America can stop India’s anti-Christian crusade in its tracks
By David Curry — February 9, 2023
(Global Christian Relief) — The world’s largest democracy should be protecting the religious rights of all of its people.
Is ‘Jewish supremacy’ translating into anti-Christian violence in Jerusalem?
By Daoud Kuttab — February 3, 2023
(RNS) — The conflict between Israelis and Palestinians is a political one; it must stay as such.
Two Nigeria churches attacked; worshippers killed, abducted
By Chinedu Asadu — June 21, 2022
ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — At least 32 people were killed in the Kajuru area last week in an attack that lasted for hours across four villages.
A priest overcomes India’s anti-Christian violence to lead interfaith dialogue
By Priyadarshini Sen — March 4, 2022
NEW DELHI (RNS) — The Kandhamal riots of 2008 stand out as a watershed moment in India’s history of mass violence against minorities. A Catholic priest who survived them wants to bring faith leaders together to get past that history.
Pakistani police widen manhunt a day after priest’s killing
By Riaz Khan — January 31, 2022
(AP) — The Rev. William Siraj, 75, was killed while on his way home after attending Sunday Mass in the city of Peshawar, the capital of northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province that borders Afghanistan.
Indian Catholics hope a papal visit will halt anti-Christian persecution
By Claire Giangravé — November 8, 2021
VATICAN CITY (RNS) — The Catholic minority in India hopes that a papal visit will mend relations between Christians and Hindus and promote gender equality in the local church.
Suicide bomb hits Palm Sunday Mass in Indonesia, 20 wounded
By Yusuf Wahil and Niniek Karmini — March 29, 2021
MAKASSAR, Indonesia (AP) — Two attackers believed to belong to a network that pledged allegiance to the Islamic State blew themselves up outside a Roman Catholic cathedral during a Palm Sunday Mass.
In northern Kenya, al-Shabab militants target Christian teachers
By Doreen Ajiambo — January 14, 2019
WAJIR, Kenya (RNS) — Non-Muslim teachers have long suffered discrimination by the ethnic Somalis in the region, who are accused of helping militants to target Christians.
Anger erupts in Egypt after massacre of Christian pilgrims
By Mina Nader — November 5, 2018
MINYA, Egypt (RNS) — An assault that killed seven Coptic Christians on Friday (Nov. 2) follows a May 2017 ambush at the same location, also by the Egyptian branch of the Islamic State. Now, Copts say they have had enough of platitudes.
Hebrew graffiti at Jerusalem monastery threatens Christians
By Reuters — January 17, 2016
JERUSALEM (Reuters) The attack on a Christian holy site, possibly by Jewish ultra-nationalists, seems to up the ante from previous incidents. "This time it amounts to a real call to murder Christians," said a church spokesman.
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