A pregnant woman, an evangelist, and a teenager have been killed in a series of violent incidents in Indonesia’s restive Papua region. The killings have prompted the country’s national human rights body to open an investigation and drawn a rare rebuke from a government minister, raising concerns that soldiers are targeting civilians and worshipers in a conflict that offers little protection to those caught between the two sides.

Suqaylabiyah built a church embodying Christian continuity. Four years later, its people are looking for the road out.

Fulani militants killed four times as many civilians in Nigeria as Boko Haram and the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) combined between October 2019 and September 2025, a new report shows. 

A 22-year-old Christian woman was giving birth when armed Fulani militia men stormed the rural clinic in Nigeria’s Middle Belt. She escaped, but lost her husband and four members of his family in the attack.