(Mission Network News) – Many years ago, Darrell Templeton was speaking to a group of Indian pastors and noticed something interesting. They weren’t looking up the Scripture he referenced, or taking notes. His translator explained that most of the pastors there could not read or write. For the first time, Templeton witnessed a group of […]

Pray for Tran Thi Hong, who was arrested and beaten by law enforcement for meeting with a human rights delegation from the US. Hong is the wife of Pastor Nguyen Cong Chinh, currently imprisoned for charges against the Vietnamese government. In an interview with Radio Free Asia, Hong says that on the morning of April […]

ZHEJIANG, China (China Aid) — Public outcry broke out against the government-backed persecution of Christians after officials failed to demolish a church in China’s coastal Zhejiang province on Monday. When Christians from Yingmochen Church, a house church in Ningbo, Zhejiang, heard that authorities had ordered the demolition of their church building on April 18, they […]

China (Mission Network News) — On a recent trip, Bibles for China helped come alongside China’s churches. During the visit, Bibles for China helped resource the Church with 10,000 Bibles. Still, this isn’t enough to quench the ever-growing thirst for God’s Word. “The need that exists is not a need that goes away … The […]

NALUGONDO, Uganda (Morning Star News) – Muslims in a village in eastern Uganda last week killed Christians’ pigs and tore down their church building, sources said. A Muslim mob demolished the building of the 450-member Nalugondo Church of Uganda building at about midnight on April 12, shouting, “We cannot live together with neighbors who are infidels. […]

TEOPISCA, Chiapas (Evangelical Focus) — The local authorities of the San Jose neighborhood in the city of Teopisca, in the state of Chiapas, Mexico, have cut off water to a group of evangelicals for refusing to fund the Roman Catholic patron saint festivity. The first week of April, weeks after the celebrations, the local authorities, along […]

(Open Doors USA) — On March 19, Workitu’s husband and a neighbor demanded that she sell government drought relief aid she had collected earlier for her familiy. When she refused, they began to beat her. They continued attacking her even after she had collapsed. Villagers took Workitu to a clinic in a nearby town, but […]

HENAN, China (China Aid) — Two members of a church demolition team in China’s central Henan province buried a house church leader and his wife alive on Thursday when they tried to prevent the destruction of their church. Though the church leader managed to escape, the wife had suffocated to death by the time she was […]

(Mission Network News) — The deaf are meeting “the God beyond the page,” thanks to groups like DOOR International. DOOR translates Scripture into sign language, and equips deaf believers with the resources they need to fulfill the Great Commission. “Out of the 70 million deaf people worldwide, it’s estimated that less than two-percent of them […]

Ukraine (Mission Network News) — Christian Aid Mission and the indigenous ministries they support are grieving the loss of two missionaries in eastern Ukraine. “On March 21st, some native missionaries with a ministry in Ukraine were killed in a car accident,” Christian Aid’s Amie Cotton says. “It was three gentlemen. And their car hit a […]