Advocacy group Amnesty International, which campaigns for the abolition of the death penalty, has named China as the world’s “lead executioner.”

As tensions rose Saturday between India and Pakistan, at least one widow was mourning the death of her only son, a Christian teenager shot and killed by a Muslim in Pakistan’s Punjab province.

At a recent meeting in Wuhan, Christian media in China were instructed to increase their coverage of Xi Jinping’s thoughts and key Communist Party documents, according to a religious liberty and human rights magazine.

Fulani herdsmen launched deadly raids on two predominantly Christian villages in Plateau state, Nigeria, on May 3-4, killing six people and injuring dozens, Morning Star News reported.

A Christian laborer has died in Pakistan’s Punjab province after being “beaten by Muslim men” and suffering police “mistreatment,” Christian sources told Worthy News on Tuesday.

A young Christian man working as an assistant lineman at Pakistan’s Water and Power Development Authority (WAPDA) remained missing Sunday after he was abducted in the Pakistani province of Punjab, activists supporting his family told Worthy News.

An evangelist in eastern Uganda was killed last month after preaching the Gospel to Muslims, some of whom reportedly came to faith in Christ during an open-air event, Morning Star News reported.

At least nearly two dozen Christian refugees from Afghanistan have been ordered to leave the United States despite facing death in their home country for their faith in Christ, their church and other groups say.

The founder of YouVersion, the world’s most popular Bible app, says unprecedented engagement with Scripture reflects a global spiritual revival. On Easter Sunday 2025, 18.95 million people used the app—an all-time high and a 12% jump over the previous year.

Pakistani authorities have detained three men who allegedly raped a Christian woman in a violent robbery targeting her and her husband, Worthy News learned Tuesday.

Nine Chinese Christians have been sentenced to up to four years in prison and fined amounts up to a million yuan (more than $136,000), according to a religious liberty and human rights magazine.

Thousands of Christians, including pastors and other Christian leaders, have signed a petition urging the Dutch government to protect those “who speak out about Israel” following numerous violent incidents.

Representatives of Mauritania’s tiny but thriving Christian community have expressed concerns about renewed Islamic extremism in the northwest African nation after Muslim imams organized a protest against the presence of Christians in the southern city of Sélibaby. The April 7 rally, which was approved by local authorities, followed the death of a Christian convert in a motorcycle accident a few days earlier, Christians told Worthy News.

Christians have urged prayers for four detained Christians in Iran, including frail Pastor Nasser Navard Gol-Tapeh, who was recently detained again after he already served 5 years in prison for activities linked to his faith in Christ.

U.S. Evangelist Franklin Graham, who met Pope Francis last year, says the pontiff’s death has raised questions about where he and others will spend eternity.

A branch of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), the umbrella group of major denominations, has urged calm after a truck crashed into an Easter procession of pilgrims, killing at least five people and injuring numerous others.

A Christian man sentenced to death for blasphemy against Islam in the eastern Pakistani town of Jaranwala will appeal the verdict, Worthy News learned Easter Monday.

A Pakistani anti-terrorism court sentenced a Christian man to death on Good Friday on controversial charges of blasphemy against Islam, Christians told Worthy News.

Christians across autocratically-ruled Nicaragua “are celebrating Holy Week” leading up to Easter under the watchful eye of police and paramilitary forces, Christians told Worthy News on Good Friday.

African pastors and American Christian leaders were among those preparing for a Good Friday prayer service “for the persecuted Church” at the steps of the United States Capitol, the seat of the U.S. Congress.