World Watch Monitor

What North Korea’s leader seeks from the international community is appeasement and not peace, let alone the freedom of his own people, a North...

Three American citizens detained in North Korea seem set to be released ahead of a meeting between the two countries’ leaders next month.

US President Donald Trump decried the killings of Christians in Nigeria as he met with the country’s president, Muhammadu Buhari, in Washington...

Pakistan’s chief justice says he will decide, “soon,” the fate of Aasiya Noreen, a Christian woman whose 2009 conviction on blasphemy charges has...

Andrew Brunson got his first day in a Turkish court today (16 April) to answer espionage charges. It will be three weeks until he gets his second.

After relatives and activists commemorated on Saturday the 4th anniversary of the Chibok girls’ kidnapping, there are now fears that many of over...

China presented an official ‘white paper’ on religion on Wednesday, 4 April, guaranteeing “protection” for religious freedom, just four days after...

Below, World Watch Monitor gives a snapshot of what Easter 2018 looked like in some of the countries where it is most difficult to be a Christian.

A 16-year-old Coptic Christian girl kidnapped on 28 June to be “converted to Islam, then married off or sold”, was released and returned to her...

After almost three years in captivity, an Iraqi Christian girl abducted by the Islamic State in August 2014 has finally been reunited with her...

After spending more than three years in jail, a Christian accused of blasphemy, and facing the death penalty, was granted bail by the Supreme Court...

Egyptian police have arrested four people in the wake of the bombing that killed dozens of Christians at Cairo's Coptic Christian cathedral last...

The Nigerian National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to put an end to the ongoing deadly attacks committed...

One of four men detained in Sudan since December 2015 has been released, but three others continue to face seven criminal charges, some of which...

“No more Christmas celebration and/or lessons on Christmas including carol singing is permitted, effective immediately."

Two weeks after a Coptic community was attacked over rumours it planned to open a church in the village, one of the Copts says it is his...

The Iranian government has assumed control of a church-owned retreat center, accusing the church of being funded by the US government and the CIA.

A Filipino cardinal has condemned as “terrorism” a bomb explosion outside a Catholic church in the southern Philippines as clergy in the capital...