(Evangelical Focus) — Édouard Nelson, an evangelical pastor and father of four, died on Aug. 14 after suffering an accident while practicing a climbing activity. He was enjoying a vacation with his wife Laura and their four children in the region of the Alps. Édouard was 45 years old and was the pastor of the […]
NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – A Christian father of seven in northern India was hospitalized for more than two weeks after Hindu extremists with iron rods interrupted his night prayers with his family and beat him at his home. Pappu Kumar, released from a hospital on Thursday (Aug. 13), was praying with his family in […]
(Article18) — An Iranian-Assyrian couple sentenced to a combined 15 years in prison for teaching Muslim converts about Christianity have finally been informed that their longstanding appeals have failed. It’s been more than three years since Victor Bet-Tamraz was sentenced to 10 years in prison, in July 2017, and over two and a half years […]
Nigeria (Christian Aid Mission/Mission Network News) — A staunch Muslim in a 90 percent Muslim area of Nigeria, Idris* was so opposed to the borehole and other services local missionaries provided that he ordered his wife not to drink the new well water. According to Christian Aid Mission, Idris had opposed the efforts of Christian […]
(International Christian Concern) – On August 12, the mothers group of an influential house church in China’s city of Xiamen was raided by the local authorities as they gathered at a sister’s home. At 10 a.m., more than 10 mothers from Xunsiding Church, which was disbanded by the government last year, were doing their book […]
(Fox Business) — The push to defund the Seattle police is causing a local business owner to close his store, said Matt Raetzer, owner of Steelpologie Teas. “It was a decision after deliberation. We’ve been there for three and a half years. That was our first store,” Raetzer told “Fox & Friends.” Raetzer said that […]
HYDERABAD, India (Morning Star News) – Pastor Ramnivas Kumar had been attacked before, but in the latest instance he was stunned that police in eastern India arrested his bleeding guests based on transparently false accusations that they were robbers, he said. Christians Avinash Kumar and Rambali Ram were visiting Pastor Kumar’s home in Ranjitpur village, Bihar state […]
(Christian Solidarity Worldwide) — Christian Solidarity Worldwide has learned that a 40-year-old Syrian Kurdish man was arrested and accused of apostasy by Failaq Al-Sham, an Islamist group loyal to Turkey, on July 30. Local sources report that fighters from Failaq Al-Sham arrested Radwan Muhammad at his home in the village of Jaqmaq Kibir near Rajo, […]
WILSON, N.C. (KMOV-TV) – A man in North Carolina shot and killed his five-year-old neighbor in front of the boy’s family. Police in Wilson, North Carolina said Darius Sessoms, 25, shot and killed Cannon Hinnant while the boy was playing in his yard with his family Sunday evening. Cannon’s mother said her son was playing outside when […]
(Voice of the Martyrs Korea) — In a further crackdown on Christians, the government of Eritrea arrested 30 people that were attending a wedding ceremony held in the capital, Asmara, during the last week of June 2020. That brings the number of Christians arrested in Eritrea since last April to 45. “Not many people have […]