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Dean Jones: When It’s All Been Said and Done, a Defender of the Persecuted

The following tribute was written by Faith McDonnell, Director of Religious Liberty Programs and of the Church Alliance for a New Sudan at the Institute on Religion and Democracy. If you would like to donate to the Christian Rescue Fund, a fund dedicated to aiding Christians escaping persecution, please find the donation button below.   …

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Nepal Seeks to Restrict Religious Freedom

Following devastating earthquakes in April and May which killed thousands of people many Christian aid organizations and churches around the world have raced to send aid to feed and shelter Nepali villagers and to rebuild their crumbled homes.  Soon after Christian charities responded with desperately needed aid to survivors nationwide, the Nepali constitutional drafting committee has responded by removing religious …

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Update on Asia Bibi

On July 22nd, Asia Bibi appeared before a three judge panel of the Pakistan Supreme Court who decided to temporarily suspend her death sentence for blasphemy. Based on dubious evidence and witnesses, a sessions court had found Bibi guilty of violating Pakistan Penal Code 295(c) for blasphemy and conferred the first death sentence on a …

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Terrorists Say Captive Chibok Girls “Gone” As Truce Turns Ruse

A man claiming to be Abubakar Shekau, the Boko Haram leader, released a chilling video ironically on Halloween night declaring that the 219 school girls held in captivity had all “converted” to Islam and were now “married” to Boko Haram militants. The speaker also declared the ceasefire was a ruse, and that negotiations never took …

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