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An anti-Gaddafi rally in Libya, 2011.Flickr / CC / MojomogwaiIt’s five years this month since Muammar Gaddafi’s government in Libya was overthrown when rebels stormed his compound and he went into hid

The Fatema Mæ'sume 
shrine in Qom, a religiously conservative city 150km south of Tehran.World Watch Monitor In Iran, converting from Islam to Christianity can land you in prison or even get

The U.S. State Department on 10 Aug. released its 2015 International Religious Freedom Report. Required by U.S. law, the report contains an assessment of the conditions supporting, or suppressing, fre

Bouhafs’ family said they are deeply concerned, as he suffers from a chronic illness and his health may deteriorate as he goes to prison.World Watch MonitorA Christian in Algeria has been sentenced to

At this memorial service, young people performed their own poetry, made music and danced in front of a cross, around which are the names, in Arabic, of the villages still under IS control.Open Doors I

Part of a play performed
 by Iraqi Christians forced to flee to Kurdistan after the self-proclaimed Islamic State seized their northern town of Qaraqosh.Video capture / World Watch Monitor“Th

MONUSCO forces outside the town of Oicha, eastern DRC, in May 2015.Myriam Asmani/CC/MONUSCOUPDATE (5 August): Seven people have lost their lives following an attack by suspected Ugandan Islamist rebel

Kuwa Shamal (left) and Hassan Taour are among several Christian ministers targeted by the NISS.World Watch MonitorAfter nearly eight months of legal limbo, a Sudanese court has finally seen three deta

Bahar (left), 
81, with her daughters, Samira and Bahija. IS beat Bahija and ransacked their home in Tel Kayf, outside Mosul. Bahar's family shares a one-bedroomed house in Amman with another

Joseph Kurah,
 murdered on 30 June, and Eunice Elisha, who was killed 10 days later.Twitter: @uncanny_sam / World Watch MonitorThousands of people, including journalists from around the world

Obseswar Nayak
 stands on the remains of his property in Borimunda village, Kandhamal. The government ruled that his house was only "partially" damaged and therefore offered him only token co

Tower of a Catholic church next to a 
Buddhist statue, Myanmar Nov. 2015World Watch MonitorMyanmar’s Christian population has increased dramatically, according to the latest figures in a supp

For a woman,
 the loss of her husband is the beginning of hardship for her and her children.CCEPIForty-something Agnes, from Benue state in Nigeria’s Middle Belt region, was married to univer

During Hegazy's
 periods of incarceration, he was subject to different forms of abuse.World Watch MonitorEgyptian lawyer Karam Ghobrial was clearly distraught as he talked about the saga both

A message
 is held aloft at a protest march against anti-Christian violence - in Bangalore in February 2015.World Watch MonitorThe leader of a Christian advocacy group in India says that inci

L to R: 
Camilla and Bahram Nasibov; Yusif and Lala Farhadov, with their son; Aida and Eldar Gurbanov.Middle East ConcernThe families of three Azerbaijani Christians detained for more than a

U.S. State Department Deputy Secretary Antony Blinken at the Washington Conference on Threats to Religious and Ethic Minorities Under ISIL, 29 July in Washington, D.C.Video capture / U.S. Office of Po

Since 2011, human rights organisations have recorded scores of attacks against Copts.World Watch Monitor / David Degner / Getty ImagesEight Christian homes were attacked and an equal number of Copts w

Rev. Jacques HamelEglise Catholique de RouenThe 26 July killing of a Catholic priest in his church in St. Etienne du Rouvray, France, once again has pushed jihadist violence into the headlines. The so

The aftermath of an attack, which claimed hundreds of lives, in the central Nigerian state of Benue, Feb. 2016.World Watch MonitorUPDATE (27 July): A fresh attack in the central Nigerian State of Benu