Weekly Prayer Updates

On 26 February, we reported that in a recent social media post, two Hindu extremists attempted to call 5,000 people t...

Under Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the Hindu nationalist organisation Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh has seen a 20% increase in membership. Its emboldened base seeks to forcibly unite India under Hindui...

While Bangladesh is a majority-Muslim nation, the government avoids undue influence from Islamists and actively fights extremism. Sunni Muslims make up 87% of Bangladesh’s population, and 2% are Shi...

On 15 February, hardline Muslims in eastern Uganda beat and stabbed an evangelist after he and his team led a Muslim widow to Christ through open-air gospel preaching, sources said. Robert Kasozi, ...

In a recent social media post, a man named Aadesh Soni is attempting to call 5,000 people to gather on 1 March, to join ‘Gau Nyay Yatra’ (cow justice parade). Participants are being asked to enter...

Ma Yan, a Christian pastor from Zhenxiong, Yunnan Province, was charged and tried on 10 February for “organising illegal gatherings” in relation to a gathering of no more than ten Christians in th...

Mahamat, a Muslim background believer living in northern Cameroon, was imprisoned by his parents for his Christian faith but later rescued. Mahamat was studying to become a teacher of the Koran whe...

The Islamic Revolution of 1979 created the world’s only Shiite Islamic theocracy and profoundly changed every aspect of life in Iran. Today, many of those who committed their lives to Islam are fill...

On 30 July, an amendment to Uttar Pradesh's anti-conversion legislation was passed in an effort to strengthen the state's existing laws. In particular, major changes were made to the severity of punis...