Christian advocates urged authorities across South Asia on Sunday to ensure greater accountability for deadly attacks targeting Christians after recent convictions over Sri Lanka’s 2019 Easter bombings renewed scrutiny of attacks in Pakistan.

A Baptist pastor was shot dead while returning from church work in western Myanmar’s Chin State in an attack that Christian advocates and a resistance group have blamed on the country’s military.

Thousands of college students gathered at Pepperdine University in Southern California this week for an evening of worship, prayer, and preaching that organizers say resulted in hundreds making decisions to follow Jesus Christ and many being baptized.

Two sisters were recovering Thursday after their father allegedly tried to burn them to death in western Uganda.

A Baptist pastor was shot and killed by suspected Muslim Fulani militants while on his way to a church service in central Nigeria’s Plateau State, Worthy News learned Wednesday, one of at least nine people killed in a series of attacks on Christians over the weekend.

Two Christian men have been detained in Pakistan on blasphemy charges that could carry severe penalties, including death, while questions surround the shooting death of a Christian worker.

Evangelical Christianity in Britain is younger, more ethnically diverse and more male than the wider population, with millions embracing its beliefs, according to a landmark study seen by Worthy News.

Christians in two states of Nigeria have plunged into mourning after suspected Islamic militants killed at least 24 people in recent attacks amid mounting violence against Christian communities, sources said.

Christians in Myanmar were mourning Sunday after the ruling military shot and killed a Baptist pastor in predominantly Christian Chin State, the latest church leader to die amid the country’s civil conflict, Christian investigators said.

Algerian special police forces have raided a Christian gathering and detained 12 believers, adding to concerns about religious freedom in the predominantly Muslim North African nation, Christians told Worthy News.

Authorities in Nigeria’s predominantly Christian Plateau State have ordered a crackdown on an unauthorized Islamic religious police group attempting to enforce aspects of Sharia, or Islamic law, amid broader concerns about pressure on Christians and fresh deadly violence in Nigeria’s troubled Middle Belt region.

For decades, St. Peter’s Evangelical Church in central Tehran was more than a sanctuary. Its ten-acre compound held homes, two schools and offices tied to Iran’s Protestant community. Now the church is closed, its residents have been evicted, and guards have been posted to keep worshippers from returning.

For years, Campus Bible Fellowship had a place among the student clubs at SUNY Broome Community College. Now the Christian ministry is in federal court, fighting for the right to choose leaders who share its faith.

American evangelist Franklin Graham confirmed Tuesday that U.S. President Donald J. Trump has nominated his daughter to serve as the United States Ambassador at Large for International Religious Freedom.

A Christian family in Pakistan’s Punjab province has appealed for the return of their teenage son, saying he was pressured and forced to convert to Islam while working at a factory.