John Newton and John Pontifex describe the intimidation and murder of Christians in Pakistan, India, Nigeria and other countries.

“Christians are always wondering where and when the next attack will come,” said the priest.

We listened intently as Fr Abid Tanveer, who lived through the worst attack on Pakistan’s Christians in a decade, described the devastation when a 7,000-strong mob rampaged through the Christian quarter of Jaranwala in August this year. Visiting Aid to the Church in Need’s UK office to relate his experiences, he told us that militants attacked 26 churches and chapels, as well as a Christian cemetery and hundreds of houses: “Jaranwala has revealed how far the extremists are prepared to go in terms of destroying homes and churches.” The mob tore down crosses, burned Bibles and ransacked churches in response to allegations that two Christian men had torn pages from the Koran.