Salwan Momika was at the centre of an international controversy in 2023 with Islamic countries calling for limits on free speech in Sweden. “Islamists often play according to other rules”, laments Olof Edsinger of the Evangelical Alliance.

The discovery, made by an international team of US and Iraqi archaeologists, includes eight marble slabs with Assyrian figures carved on them.

She was very outspoken about her faith. Police suspected her family was connected to the killing.

The US Commission on International Religious Freedom annual report denounces that “the pandemic fostered misinformation targeting religious minorities”.

Evangelical leaders from the Middle East and North Africa analyse the impact of the uprisings that began in 2010, and the current situation.

The museum takes back around 5,000 manuscripts to Egypt and over 8,000 ancient clay objects to Iraq. Since its opening in 2017, it has been accused of several controversial acquisitions.

“The current focus on returns will not save the asylum system”, says the European Evangelical Alliance representative in Brussels, Arie de Pater. “It is not just about the economy this time, but about people”.

The “aggressions and hostile rhetoric” threaten the presence of the Christian minority, says the global evangelical body. “Pray for and end to the cycles of violence and death that beset the Middle East”.

The Prime Minister resigns after large demonstrations against political corruption and the precarious economic situation. More than 400 people died in the last 2 months.

I can tell you that people whose presence I once resented have become good friends. That is what the gospel does!

The response to date, and what still needs to be done.

Eighty journalists were killed this year. “The hatred of journalists is voiced, and sometimes very openly proclaimed, by unscrupulous politicians” and “amplified by social networks”, a RSF report says.

Yazidi activist and sexual slavery survivor, Nadia Murad, and Congolese gynaecologist, Denis Mukwege, won the Nobel Peace Prize.

Thousands injured and 70’000 need shelter in the predominantely Kurdish region. Tremors were felt as far away as Israel and Turkey.

More than 300 participated in the first conference on Christian persecution held in Budapest.