(World Watch Monitor) — Gunmen who attacked a Protestant church in Burkina Faso on April 28 asked the pastor and five others to convert to Islam before they killed them, World Watch Monitor has learned. Last Sunday’s violence in the West African country appears to have been the first attack, specifically on a church building, […]
(Bitter Winter) — Since the new Regulations on Religious Affairs came into effect in February 2018, the Chinese authorities have been attempting to curb the growth of Christianity by ordering Protestant house churches to join the official Three-Self Church; those who don’t comply are shut down. This February, local authorities raided a house church in […]
TIZI-OUZOU, Algeria (Morning Star News) – A convert from Islam in Algeria whose Muslim wife charged him with inciting her to change her religion won a final court battle in April — after losing her to divorce in March. A court on April 17 upheld Rachid Ouali’s acquittal following a final appeal of the Dec. 25 verdict. […]
JOS, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – Hundreds of family members and sympathizers on Saturday (April 27) attended a funeral in northeastern Nigeria for eight young Christians, six of them minors, who were killed when an off-duty security officer drove his vehicle into their Easter procession on April 21, sources said. The officer, identified as Adamu […]
(Evangelical Focus) — Unidentified gunmen killed at least six people at a Protestant church in northern Burkina Faso on Sunday, authorities said. According to local witnesses, the attackers arrived on seven motorbikes at the end of Sunday’s service and killed the pastor, two of his sons and three other worshipers. “It is the first attack […]
(Morning Star News) – More than a month after men claiming to be Maoists in Nepal assaulted Dhurba Kumar Pariyar, the 40-year-old pastor is still physically and mentally traumatized. “I still have headache and chest pain, though I am under strong medication,” Pastor Pariyar told Morning Star News. He later quoted Matthew 5:10, Christ saying […]
(Evangelical Focus) — At least 12 native evangelicals were held illegally last Sunday in the municipality of Zinacantán (Chiapas, south Mexico). They were attending a local district assembly to discuss issues of common interest. But the agenda of the gathering was changed as the leaders of the municipality addressed the organization of the Catholic festival […]
(International Christian Concern) – Hong Kong is planning to amend its extradition laws to allow suspects to be sent to mainland China, a move that comes widely criticized by rights groups and Western countries. On April 3, Hong Kong’s leaders launched the laws to grant the chief executive the right to order the extradition of […]
(International Christian Concern) — Under India’s constitution, people’s right to religious freedom is broadly protected by Article 25. In practice, however, this right has become overshadowed by conflicting laws and the actions local governments. This fact of life in India was recently demonstrated by unconstitutional actions taken by village leaders in the village of Penkodo, […]
(Evangelical Focus) — On Sunday, suicide bombers killed and injured hundreds during Easter services and at luxury hotels across Sri Lanka. Although the official death toll had reached 359 by Thursday, the Sri Lankan government later revised that figure down to 253. One of the locations attacked was the evangelical Zion Church of Batticaloa, where […]