Egypt: Islamic lawyers charge a Christian convert with apostacy. He is in hiding and has been beaten in the street.
Egypt: The Foreign Ministry ignored an application from the Center for Human Rights to invite an international commission to conduct a census of Copts.
Ain Shams, Egypt: A Coptic jewelry shop was robbed and staff were beaten but the police won’t investigate. A Muslim man killed a Copt and beat his son.
Egypt: Authorities recently sentenced six Christian brothers to three years in prison for opening their café during Ramadan (video).
Abu Korkas, Egypt: Christian lawyer gets six-month prison sentence and a fine for complaining about an Islamist judge.
Egypt: An initiative seeks common law in the construction and maintenance of all places of worship, which are hard for Copts to carry out under current law.
Egypt: A Coptic boy who was kidnapped and hidden in a mosque for 9 months was returned to his family.
Egypt: Clerics are outraged after Al-Azhar agrees with a Vatican proposal to remove hatred of, and incitement of violence toward, Jews and Christians from school textbooks.
Louaize, Lebanon: Chaldean leaders met to discuss the persecution, genocide, and fleeing of Iraqi Christians.
Mosul, Iraq: Kurds seize land beyond the borders of their autonomous zone and into Christian Mosul.
Iran: The government has stepped up inquiries into Christian activities as conversions increase.
Turkey: The US State Department’s Human Rights Report on Turkey was released and the results are not good, but saying so could land you in jail for “insulting Turkish identity.”
Bauchi, Nigeria: Nine Christians have been brutally killed in sectarian violence after a curfew was imposed. International Christian Concern has called for an investigation.
Garissa, Kenya: A church is struggling 6 months after jihadists, who are still at large, destroyed the building.
Eritrea: Persecution of Christians increases as militant Muslims gain control in the Horn of Africa.
Sudan: Southerners are fearful that the indictment of Omar Bashir could jeopardize peace, which is tentative.
Guinea-Bissau: Christians are fearful after the President and armed forces chief were killed in bomb blasts.
Kosovo: Wahhabism in the Balkans heats up anti-Christian rhetoric and violence.
Kacanik, Kosovo: An Albanian was arrested with a homicide vest and other weapons in a café in the Serbian province of Strpce, 2 weeks after a Serb was stabbed in the chest by Albanians.
Banja Luka, Bosnia-Herzegovina: Bosnian Serbs sue the UN and Holland for failing to protect them from Muslim Bosniaks in Srebrenica during the 1992-1995 war.
Kosovo: Wahhabis fund weapons for Albanian militants and set up Wahhabi cells across the Balkans.
Kosovo: Albanian police have been placed in charge of protecting Serbian churches, which Serbs are afraid of being killed for visiting.
Switzerland: Authorities are increasing security to “an unprecedented level” for the upcoming visit of the Serbian FM, whom Kosovo Albanians have planned to kill.
Istanbul, Turkey: A father sues the Education Ministry over an Armenian genocide DVD.
Padua, Italy: Immigrants have started patrolling the streets in the wake of a crime wave by Muslim immigrants in the Christian nation.
Brescia, Italy: Sharia exercised as a Maghrebi family is acquitted of beating and sequestering their daughter “for her own good.”
Vatican City: Church leaders meet to discuss ways to slow the exodus of Christians from the Middle East.
The Hague, Netherlands: The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia assigns collective guilt to Serbs, who feel that they are consistently denied justice.
Nagorno-Karabakh, Azerbaijan: Deadly military clashes erupt in Armenian-majority disputed territory.
Azerbaijan: The compulsory literature censorship system has now extended to the export of Christian literature, not just its import.
Bulgaria: Numerous southern villages are being converted to Islam by force.
Gujranwala, Pakistan: A Muslim mob attacked Christian worshippers, killing a woman and injuring 28 people. Authorities refuse to investigate.
Pakistan: Charges have been filed against the kidnappers of two young sisters, but the family fears that police will not cooperate.
Kasur, Pakistan: Two Christians were charged with blasphemy after being beaten.
Pakistan: Christians are fearful under newly-imposed Sharia law.
Pakistan: Christians are denied representation in the Senate as their parties deny them tickets.
Sahiwal, Pakistan: A Christian woman was kidnapped by Muslim gunmen who attempted to convert her.
Pakistan: A Christian man is kidnapped and beaten by the Taliban, who attempted to convert him (video).
Faisalabad, Pakistan: A 13-year-old girl was kidnapped, raped for two days, and released, as part of a growing trend of kidnappings and forced conversions.