World Watch Monitor
Kenyan coast Christians fear for lives as local politicians appear to be linked to Al Shabab
After at least 65 people were killed a month ago on June 15 in the predominantly Christian town of Mkepetoni, 40km inland from Kenya's mainly Muslim coastal strip, attacks in the area have continued.
Egyptian convert appeals 5-year sentence for misdemeanour
An Egyptian man who captured video of clashes between Muslims and Christians has been sentenced to five years in prison.
No Mass said in Mosul for first time in 1,600 years, says Archbishop
The Chaldean Catholic Church's Archbishop Bashar Warda of Erbil, in Kurdish-governed northern Iraq, is reported as saying that for the first time in 1,600 years there was no Mass said in Mosul on Sunday June 15. This is the city taken over days before by ISIS forces.
Why Christians are under pressure to exit Iraq
A population of 1.2 million in the 1990's reduced to 300,000
Mosul Islamist take-over: Up to 1,000 Christian families have reportedly fled Iraq's second biggest city
A mass exodus is underway from Iraq's second largest city Mosul after its seizure by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, ISIS, an Iraq and Syria-based Sunni Muslim extremist group.
Argentina´s fight to hold onto religious freedom
Baptist pastor says pressure on Church is increasing
Pakistan: Autopsy raises questions over whether Christian's death was suicide
Haroon Haidar, a 24-year-old Christian father of two, supposedly killed himself
What Sharia law may bring for non-Muslims in Brunei
Punishments such as flogging, the cutting of limbs and being stoned to death will be phased in over time.
Church standoff a study in China's complexity
Upon closer examination, the reality may not be as black-and-white as the headlines.
How does Boko Haram justify kidnap of 230 Nigerian teenage girls?
Strategy behind attacks on 'most vulnerable' to intimidate and terrorise all
Easter killings in Central African Republic
Archbishop calls for commission into the crimes
Bhutanese pastors released on bail
Bhutanese pastors, Tandin Wangyal and Mon Thapa were released on bail from the Dorokha police station April 22 after being arrested March 5 and held without formal charges.
New US-based Syriac Patriarch says he'll return to Syria
The Syriac-Orthodox Church, one of the oldest churches in the world and seated in the heart of war-ravaged Syria, has selected a US-based archbishop as its next patriarch.
3,000 Syrian Christians flee Armenian village as Islamist rebels take control
Reports of desecrated churches, looted houses: locals blame Turkish complicity
Turkey returns less than half of monastery land it seized
1,600-year-old Mor Gabriel is holy to Aramean Syriacs
Nigeria's churches will not stay silent during violence, leader says
Boko Haram attacks continue in north, killing dozens