#church attacks

In recent years, a disturbing trend has emerged across multiple continents: the systematic persecution of Christians. While this crisis affects believers worldwide, nowhere is it more devastating than in Nigeria, where violence against Christians has reached what many experts are now calling genocide levels. This underreported humanitarian crisis deserves urgent attention and action from the…

LAHORE: Pakistani police have arrested two Christian brothers accused of blasphemy, a spokesperson and a source said on Friday, two days after a Muslim mob burnt churches and houses, blaming the two men for desecrating the Quran. Pages of the Quran were found in a street with derogatory comments written on them in red, police said. One attached extra page also carried the names, addresses and…

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan‘s caretaker Prime Minister Anwaarul Haq Kakar on Friday said the interim government would not support “the forces of darkness” in the society as he took strong exception to the unprecedented attack on minority Christians in the Muslim-majority country’s Punjab province. An enraged mob ransacked and torched 21 churches and 35 homes of Christians on Wednesday over blasphemy…

ISLAMABAD: Scores have been arrested from Pakistan’s Punjab province following mob attacks on churches and homes belonging to Christians over alleged desecration of the Holy Quran by two members of the minority community, officials said Thursday. Authorities have deployed paramilitary troops to restore order in Faisalabad district’s Jaranwala, where the alleged desecration took place.There were…

The arrested, including some pro-Hindu leaders, were remanded into judicial custody, police said The inside of Sacred Heart Church in Narayanpur district of India’s Chhattisgarh state, which was attacked on Jan. 2 after a clash between indigenous people following animist religion and those following the Christian faith. (Photo: supplied) Published: January 05, 2023 11:28 AM…Indian police arrest…

A new report from the Family Research Council (FRC) has documented some 420 instances of attacks on churches in the United States between 2018 and 2022. While the crisis of violence against both Catholic and Christian churches is disheartening, so too is a new report from the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, which recently found […]420 church attacks in 4 years, but most Americans unaware