The Watchman

On Saturday, thousands of people stood in Naridon village, in southern Kaduna, while twenty seven coffins were lowered into the ground. The attack came the previous Sunday, July 26, shortly before midnight. Armed men moved through the village for nearly two hours. Homes burned. By morning about thirty people were

They came on a Saturday. On July 11, police in Yueyang, a city on the Yangtze in China's Hunan Province, raided multiple unregistered house churches. Believers were taken in for questioning. Most were released within a day or two. Six were not. ChinaAid, the Texas-based watchdog founded

They came to the pastor's house in Heiban after the fighting had already emptied the streets. On the night of July 23, armed men from a breakaway faction of the Sudan People's Liberation Army-North took Rev. Yaqob Ibrahim Tia of the Sudanese Church of Christ

Five Ethiopian Christians were executed on nonlethal drug charges after trials of minutes. At least 58 more wait in one Saudi prison.

The sisters were preparing grain. It was the morning of Wednesday, July 22, at the Arsema monastery complex in Ethiopia's South Wollo zone, near the town of Mekane Selam in the Amhara region. The rainy season was coming, and the community was laying up stores to last through

The stones came first. Then the handcuffs. On the evening of July 8, in the village of El-Tal El-Qibliya in Egypt's Minya Province, dozens of residents surrounded the building where the village's Coptic Christians pray. They threw stones at the church doors. They threw