The major US music ministry Winter Jam has seen over 34,000 professions of faith in Christ from young people in America this year alone, Christian Headlines (CH) reports.

Pennsylvania pastor Rev. Glenn Germany attests it was a “miracle of God” that the loaded gun aimed at him by Bernard Polite during a church service on Sunday would not fire because it was jammed, Christian Headlines (CH) reports.

Christians in Algeria have appealed for prayers after an appeals court sentenced a prominent pastor to one-year imprisonment related to organizing “unauthorized worship” in the Islamic nation.

An Islamist asylum seeker in the United Kingdom has been found guilty of attempting to kill his Iranian housemate for converting to Christianity and for murdering an elderly man he did not know on the street in Hartlepool, northern England, Christian Daily reports.

There has been an uptick in attacks on Christians in Nigeria by Fulani jihadist herdsmen, and on May 5, six people were boldly slaughtered in their homes during a raid on a predominantly Christian village in Kaduna state, Morning Star News (MSN) reports.

America’s United Methodist Church General Conference last week voted to remove from its Book of Discipline rulebook a clause asserting that homosexuality is “incompatible with Christian teaching,” the Christian Post (CP) reports.

The relentless murder of Christians in Nigeria is continuing, despite repeated warnings from rights groups, including the US Commission on International Religious Freedom, that Nigerian believers in Christ are facing genocide at the hands of Islamic terrorists.

Police in Punjab Province, Pakistan, have refused to assist a Catholic farming family after they were attacked by Muslims demanding they vacate their land, Morning Star News (MSN) reports. 

A Christian member of a house church in Iran has recently been brought before the Islamic Revolutionary Court on charges of operating “propaganda against the Islamic regime,” International Christian Concern (ICC) reports.

Millions of Orthodox and Greek Catholic Christians marked Easter, many holding vigils and attending midnight Masses amid armed conflicts and persecution.

Police in Indonesia’s capital, Jakarta, are investigating a prominent Indonesian pastor, known for his television appearances, for alleged blasphemy against Islam, Christians told Worthy News early Friday.

Iranian Christians are still mourning Ebrahim Firouzi, a former Muslim who embraced faith in Christ despite facing detention for his Christian activities.

Christian villagers in Egypt’s southern Minya province are recovering after they were nearly torched alive by Islamic militants ahead of Orthodox Easter, Christians told Worthy News on Thursday.

A Chinese court has sentenced a  Christian man to five years imprisonment for selling and distributing Bibles in Inner Mongolia, an autonomous region in northern China, International Christian Concern (ICC) reports. 

Amid a spate of murderous attacks against Christians by Fulani jihadist herdsmen in Nigeria’s Plateau state, 12 mostly women and babies from a Christian farming community in Mangu County were slaughtered in their beds at 2 am on Apr. 19, Morning Star News (MSN) reports.

An Australian Assyrian church leader who was stabbed in the eye among other parts of his body during a livestream worship service on Apr. 15 has already returned to the pulpit saying he forgives the attacker, International Christian Concern (ICC) reports.

A Christian pastor in Nigeria’s Kaduna state was ambushed and murdered by gunmen as he traveled to visit members of his church last month, Christian Daily reports.

Christians in northern Mozambique have come under increasing threat from Islamic extremist insurgents fighting the Mozambican government in order to impose their version of Muslim law and control on the country, The Roys Report (TRR) has said.

Fulani Islamic herdsmen are continuing a protracted, exceedingly brutal, violent campaign to clear rural areas in Nigeria’s Benue state of Christians, Morning Star News (MSN) reports. 

Washington DC on Saturday saw the fourth March for the Martyrs, an event held annually to highlight the persecution of Christians around the world and to encourage believers to “follow Jesus no matter the cost.”