When Abdou and his wife, Halima, heard that Islamic extremists had crossed from Mali into Niger and killed numerous Christians, some of whom were wearing cross necklaces, Abdou decided to prepare for a possible attack on their village.

It was an ordinary morning on 17 December 2017 as members of a Christian church in Quetta, Pakistan arrived at their church’s Christmas celebration service.

“We are alive. We are fed. We have clothes. We are healthy.”

It was an ordinary school day in the village of Santana Ramos, Colombia, when guerilla soldiers entered Dora’s classroom on 18 November 2008.

Unidentified militants have abducted 40 children in a recent attack on a farm in Katsina state, northern Nigeria.

Thirty-three-year-old Mrs Zhang Hongmei was arrested by Chinese police in October 2003 for participating in “illegal religious activities”.

I am Suzanne* from Afghanistan. I was a computer science student at Kabul Polytechnic University. As the world is aware of past events and developments in Afghanistan, the conditions for women’s education and employment are not favourable at all for women.