World Watch Monitor

"Religiously-related violence has led to more deaths in northern Nigeria than have Boko Haram attacks, said commission Chairwoman Katrina Lantos...

The U.S. House of Representatives has joined the growing number of voices in Western capitals accusing the so-called Islamic State of genocide.

Recent events in the UK – a report submitted to Parliament and a new BBC documentary – have resurfaced the plight of Pakistani Christians fleeing...

The world’s deadliest terrorist group is not in the Middle East. It’s in Nigeria, where the Islamist insurgency Boko Haram and other forces killed...

Soon after IS declared Raqqa their capital, Christians were told how they could live under IS rule.

Sudanese authorities are keeping two Christian pastors in an unknown location since mid-December, with no official charges yet filed against them,...

The European Parliament has declared the violent campaign by the so-called Islamic State against Christians and other religious minorities to be...

One of the oldest churches in the world sustained damage last week in the intensified fighting between the Turkish government and Kurdish...

An Iranian pastor has been released early from prison, just six months after he failed to appeal a sentence to an extra year in jail for possessing...

The Arab Spring, which began five years ago today (17th December) started with a wave of protests in Tunisia followed by other Arab countries.

Hyeun-soo Lim, the Korean Canadian pastor detained in North Korea since February, was today sentenced to life in prison with hard labor by the...

World Watch Monitor has heard in detail about the recent deaths of two Egyptian Coptic Christians caught up in the lawlessness.

The closure of all airports in northern Iraq because of anticipated air attacks on Islamic State has left 150 already-displaced Christians...

Authorities in Indonesia’s Aceh region have started to tear down churches following last week’s religious violence that left at least one person...

Six churches have been burnt down in northwest Tanzania within the past week.

An Argentinian pastor continues to fight for his church in two court cases.

As Europe struggles to manage the migrant crisis, some church leaders in Syria, Lebanon and Iraq are saying that some refugees are ‘fed up with...

On 26 Aug, four months after their initial arrest, a judge dismissed all charges against the seven Christians charged with holding “illegal...