World Watch Monitor

“Widows are particularly vulnerable in NE Nigeria, the area most affected by the Boko Haram insurgency. For many, the loss of their husband is the...

Fulani herdsmen have occupied almost all of the areas named above: and that some church buildings and premises are now being used as camps, from...

Two churches in cities in eastern Turkey infamous as the sites of historic killings of Christians were vandalised during the attempted coup on 15...

A court in Nairobi has charged four police officers in connection with the murder of a lawyer and two of his companions.

A preacher was hacked to death in the early hours of 9 July near Nigeria’s capital.

An attack by unknown armed men early on Tuesday morning (5 July) has claimed the lives of at least nine Christians in the volatile eastern region...

Five months since his initial detention, Sudan’s internal security has re-arrested a local Church of Christ pastor.

Nigeria’s army says that it has rescued a second Chibok schoolgirl, two days after rescuing Amina Ali Nkeki, 19, the first of the 219 kidnapped...

A conference on religious radicalisation, Boko Haram and terrorism in Nigeria was held by the largest group in the European Parliament last week.

Amid the worst violence since the Syrian conflict began more than five years ago, a local Syrian Catholic archbishop has joined in raising...

Churches in Algeria are facing intimidation and harassment, despite constitutional provisions guaranteeing freedom of worship in the country.

The UK Parliament has joined US Secretary of State John Kerry, US House of Representatives, the European Parliament and the Parliamentary Assembly...

Although the tiny East African nation of Eritrea has a population of just 6 million, Eritrea is one of the leading sources of refugees in Europe....

Textbooks in Pakistan’s public schools have become more antagonistic toward Christians and other religious minorities in the past five years, a new...

An Islamist group in Indonesia has, in front of a local police commander, sealed off a brand new church, torn down its sign and demanded that the...

After 10 months of urban conflict in Turkey’s war-torn southeast, the government has expropriated huge sections of property, apparently to rebuild...

April 2 marked one year since a handful of Al-Shabaab militants stormed the University campus in Garissa – in Kenya’s volatile east, near the...

Christian leaders and politicians attended funeral services on Monday 28 March.