The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) announced on 21 April that two soldiers would be imprisoned and pulled out of active combat after one was photographed destroying a statue of Jesus Christ with a sledgehammer in a Christian village in southern Lebanon.
India said on April 17 that it is examining Bangladesh's formal request to extradite convicted former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina as part of "ongoing judicial and internal legal processes," offering one of the most detailed public statement New Delhi has made since the request was formally raised at high-level bilateral talks nine days earlier.
A Pakistani court’s decision to uphold the marriage of a 13-year-old Christian girl to the man accused of abducting her has triggered protests, international concern, and renewed demands for the protection of minority girls across the country.
Nepal’s police detained former Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli and Nepali Congress leader and former home minister Ramesh Lekhak on Saturday morning, March 28, in connection with a culpable homicide case arising from the deaths of 77 people during the youth-led protests of September 2025.
India ranked 105 out of 179 countries on the Liberal Democracy Index in 2025, down from 100 the previous year, according to the Democracy Report 2026 released this week by the V-Dem Institute at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. The country has remained classified as an “electoral autocracy” since 2017.
March 24 is celebrated as the Feast of St. Oscar Romero. It was on this day in 1980 that he was brutally gunned down ...
A United States federal commission has documented a continuing pattern of attacks on Christian communities across India through 2025, recommending that Washington classify India among the world’s worst violators of religious freedom and impose sanctions on organisations it holds responsible.
A total of 3,406 candidates contested 165 seats under the first-past-the-post system, while 3,135 candidates vied for the remaining 110 seats allocated through proportional representation. Nearly a third of all 3,400-odd candidates were under 40.
Balendra Shah, a 35-year-old structural engineer and former rapper, is poised to become Nepal’s youngest-ever prime minister.
A global network of Iranian Christians has welcomed targeted strikes against Iran’s leadership by the US and Israel.
Christians are praying for a new and better future for Iran, one that includes the protection of religious freedom, following the death of the country's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
The so-called Islamic State group has launched a series of fresh attacks in Syria, describing the violence as a “new phase of operations” against the country’s current leadership.
