(The Christian Institute) — The Scottish government is currently considering introducing new hate crime laws, with Holyrood’s Justice Committee asking for views on the proposed Hate Crime and Public Order bill. The closing date for submissions is this Friday. The existing law covers race, but Scottish ministers want to extend it to cover all the […]
(Voice of the Martyrs) — An independent church pastor in India’s Karnataka state has been told to vacate his rented home, which was being used for worship gatherings. The pastor has to leave the house because radical Hindu nationalists have put pressure on the pastor’s landlord. “They threatened that they would break my hands and […]
China (International Christian Concern) – Across China, the act of passing gospel tracts on the streets has increasingly been targeted by the authorities, with Christians being taken away for administrative detention. A Christian in Jiangxi province recently told China Aid that while they used to be able to spread the gospel openly, without local authorities interfering […]
HYDERABAD, India (Morning Star News) – A Christian couple and their children were asleep in their beds in central India at 11 p.m. recently when villagers who follow the local tribal religion broke into their home and began beating them with wooden batons. The family of Bhima and Devi Markham fled from their home in […]
(Article18) — Iranian Christian convert Ismaeil Maghrebinejad has lost his appeal against the two remaining prison sentences issued to him earlier this year. Ismaeil, who is 65 years old and an official member of the Anglican Church, initially received three sentences amounting to a total of six years in prison. Ismaeil was informed last […]
(Article18) — At least 10 of the more than a dozen Christian converts arrested two weeks ago in raids on their homes and house-churches have been charged with “acting against national security by promoting Zionist Christianity.” Article18 reported earlier this month that at least 13 Christians were arrested in a coordinated operation on the evening […]
(International Christian Concern) – On July 10, a 35-year-old pastor, Munsi Thado, was found dead in the forest near Badpari village, located in the Godcharoli district of Maharashtra state. According to local sources, a group of unknown people took Pastor Munsi from his house and his body was later discovered by his wife, Rajini. Pastor […]
(Barnabas Fund) — At least 22 Christians were killed and more than 2,000 displaced during three days of attacks by Fulani militants on villages in the predominantly-Christian Gora ward of Kaduna state, Nigeria from July 10 to 12. The onslaught escalated in multiple attacks despite the presence of increased security personnel drafted in to enforce […]
(World Watch Monitor) — An American mother of three has been told she has to leave Turkey, one of the latest incidents in a series of expulsions of Christian expatriates from the country. Joy Anna Crow Subasigüller, originally from Florida, and her Turkish husband Lütfü were married seven years ago. They settled and started a […]
(Evangelical Focus) — The half yearly report of the the Religious Liberty Commission of the Evangelical Fellowship of India (EFIRL) confirms that there have been 135 cases of hate and violence against Christians in the first six months of 2020. “The absolute sense of impunity generated in the administrative apparatus of India by the corona […]