(Barnabas Fund) — The landslide victory of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa in Sri Lanka’s Aug. 5 general election opens the door for his government to introduce legislation against “forced” conversion. The Sri Lanka Podujana Party (SLPP) won 145 seats in the 225-member Parliament, giving the Buddhist nationalist president an overall majority. Subsequent negotiations with political allies […]
(Barnabas Fund) — Two pastors in Kazakhstan have appealed directly to the country’s president, asking him to stop local authorities seizing the land on which their churches stand. City authorities in the capital Nur-Sultan (formerly Astana) have ordered the confiscation of the Grace Presbyterian Church building and the Agape Pentecostal Church building, which was under […]
(The Christian Institute) — A woman born with spina bifida who doctors thought would die shortly after birth recently celebrated her 60th birthday. Carmel Proctor was diagnosed with myelomeningocele, a severe form of spina bifida, when she was born on August 8, 1960, and she initially struggled with very poor health. Her parents later told […]
(International Christian Concern) – According to UCA News, Sohail Masih, a Christian man, was arrested under blasphemy charges after a discussion on eating sacrificial meat at the Eid al-Adha festival in the Punjab province of Pakistan. “It is not possible that the blood of goats and bulls can wash away sins,” Sohail Masih posted on […]
Nigeria (Mission Network News) — Nigerian Christians are facing intense persecution, and Mission Cry hopes to bring these believers encouragement through the power of God’s Word. Jason Woolford of Mission Cry explains the crisis in Nigeria centers around Islamic persecution of Christians. Some reports state over 1,000 Christians have been brutally murdered since the beginning […]
BEIHAI, Fujian (ChinaAid) — A court in China’s Fujian province has ruled it illegal for a Christian mother to homeschool her children. Fan Ruzhen began homeschooling her children several years ago, hoping to provide them with a Christian education. On Sept. 30, 2019, authorities filed a lawsuit against her, arguing she must send her children […]
(The Christian Institute) — Researchers who claimed transgender people who undergo surgery to “change sex” have better mental health outcomes have admitted their widely-shared study was wrong. Last year, Swedish researchers Dr. Richard Bränström and Dr. John Pachankis claimed that people who have surgery to try and change sex are less likely to need mental health […]
(Philadelphia Inquirer) — By the time she was able to ask her mother for help, authorities say, the 14-year-old girl had been raped by as many as four to five people per day for weeks. “I don’t want to be here anymore,” the girl said over Facebook Messenger. Two days later, on May 30, law […]
(Article18) — Four Iranian Christian converts have received prison sentences of between two and five years for “acting against national security” by belonging to a house-church and “spreading Zionist Christianity”. Ramin Hassanpour was given a five-year sentence, Hadi (Moslem) Rahimi four years, while there were two-year sentences for Sakine (Mehri) Behjati and Ramin’s wife Saeede […]
(The Telegraph) — A Pakistani court has sparked outrage by ruling a 14-year-old Christian girl was legally married to a Muslim man who allegedly abducted her at gunpoint. In a case that has renewed focus on the persecution of Pakistan’s Christian minority, the Lahore High Court ruled on Tuesday that Maira Shahbaz had willingly converted […]