(Evangelical Focus) — Despite the recent release of Catholic prisoner Asia Bibi, 218 people of faith are still in jail in Pakistan, due to the blasphemy laws; churches and Christian communities are targeted by Islamic terrorism, and religious freedom is far from being a reality in the country. Christian schools are also threatened by radicals, […]
(Persecution Relief) — Kerala police have detained a man for distributing Christian literature in a hospital in Kottayam. Evangelist Boban Koshy was picked up by police for passing out religious literature, called tracts. He asserts that he has the right to express his beliefs according to his constitutional rights and contends he did not disturb […]
(International Christian Concern) — A protestant church in central Ethiopia was asked to evacuate its premises after 10 years in the community. According to the Oromia Regional State Authorities, complaints were made about the level of noise made by the church. Sources close to the church and the pastor have said that the evacuation request […]
KABUNA, Uganda (Morning Star News) – One of two buildings of a Christian primary school in eastern Uganda was demolished after local Muslims who opposed it threatened “tough action,” sources said. The building containing three of Hope of Glory Primary School’s seven classrooms was destroyed before dawn on June 2 in predominantly Muslim Kabuna village, […]
CHENGDU, Sichuan (ChinaAid) — Jiang Rong, the wife of Early Rain Covenant Church Pastor Wang Yi, has been released on bail, six months after vanishing into China’s prison system. Jiang and Wang were initially seized on the night of Dec. 9 as authorities conducted a mass, overnight arrest of their church members. By the end of […]
HYDERABAD, India (Morning Star News) – Christians in various villages of Chhattisgarh state, India are going hungry as members of tribal religions deprive them of work and refuse to sell food to them, sources said. In the southern tip of Chhattisgarh state, villagers who practice tribal religion of ancestor and nature worship attacked the homes […]
NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – Authorities seized 12 tearful, fatherless children from a Christian ministry in eastern India last month after local officials demolished the ministry’s school and hostel, sources said. After Hindu extremists persuaded the district collector to demolish the hostel and school serving 250 students, child protection personnel and police on May […]
JUBA, South Sudan (Morning Star News) – Days after Muslim leaders in Egypt came to his apartment to warn him to return to Islam, a Sudanese Christian in Cairo received a death threat by phone last week, he said. Having fled Sudan after authorities tortured and threatened to kill him if he refused to return to […]
Myanmar (Mission Network News) — In a new report, human rights watchdog Amnesty International indicted Myanmar’s government of war crimes and called upon the international community to respond. Amnesty claims military forces “have killed and injured civilians in indiscriminate attacks since January 2019… [and] carried out extrajudicial executions, arbitrary arrests, torture and other ill-treatment” in […]
(Open Doors USA) — “Brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child. Children will rise against their parents and have them put to death. You will be hated by everyone on account of My name …” Today in the 21st century, Jesus’ words in the Gospel of Mark are reality for millions […]