Human Rights Watch accuses government of failing to provide adequate protection or hold perpetrators to account

The persecution of Christians around the world has grown, both numerically and in its intensity, in spite of the Covid-19 pandemic. This is according to figures released in the 2021 World Watch List (WWL).

Churches and mosques weigh up risks after announcement that places of worship can remain open

The kidnappings of Catholic priests and others in Nigeria must end, Archbishop Ignatius Kaigama of Abuja said this week.

Nicola Sturgeon has been urged to reopen churches by more than 200 Scottish religious leaders.

They based the ban on the assumption that they must have been coercively or fraudulently converted, as they are not Christian by birth.

MANY more churches and cathedrals have closed their buildings to communal worship, in the light of the dangerously increasing Covid-19 infection rate.