More than 600 Christian families are making their way back to the Nineveh Plains in northern Iraq to rebuild their lives from scratch, the Syriac Catholic Archbishop of Mosul told Christian charity Aid to the Church in Need.

An Iranian Christian celebrity who is at the risk of deportation from Sweden to Iran could be saved from prison, abuse, and possibly death, by the Hungarian government, which has announced that it is ready to offer refugee status to her.

An early morning shooting spree on Aug. 6 at a Catholic church in Ozubulu, Anambra State in southern Nigeria has left 13 parishioners dead and several others wounded, according to police.