Three people were killed Monday in Iraq in the latest attack targeting Christians, police in the city of Mosul said.
A bombing in northern Iraq killed a Christian man and his 6-year-old daughter Tuesday, the latest in a series of strikes targeting the country's dwindling Christian population.
A wave of bombings and mortar attacks strike Christian areas across Baghdad. CNN's Arwa Damon reports.
She lives in a paralyzing state of "constant and fear" and it's forcing her to keep her children indoors and out of school.
Prison sentences for seven Baha'i leaders in Iran have reportedly been reduced from 20 to 10 years, the Baha'i International Community learned Thursday.
Attackers firebombed three churches in the southeast Asian nation of Malaysia overnight, assaults that come amid widespread Muslim ire over a court ruling that allowed Christians to use the word Allah as a term for God.
A U.S. government panel listed 13 countries Friday as "egregious" violators of religious freedom.
The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom cited several examples in a recent report of abuse toward Christians in Iraq.
Iraq's smaller religious groups have been facing "ongoing severe abuses," and the situation requires a response from the United States, a religious freedom watchdog said Tuesday.
Six Baha'i leaders in Iran were seized and imprisoned this week, the religious group said. The act prompted condemnation and concern from the movement and a top American religious freedom panel.
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