QINGDAO, Shandong (ChinaAid) — Qingdao officials released an elderly minister on March 29 upon the completion of his two-year-and-one-month sentence for allegedly “provoking troubles.” Later that night, the released minister, Zhou Dixian, traveled to Beijing in order to protect his rights and worship at a church there. Before his arrest, Zhou founded a church that […]
(Morning Star News) – A human rights committee in Malaysia has concluded that police officers were responsible for the 2017 disappearance of Pastor Raymond Koh, according to published reports. The prime minister of Malaysia told reporters late Wednesday (April 3) that the government would investigate the abduction of the pastor and the 2016 disappearance of […]
(Open Doors USA) — On Wednesday, the full extent of Sharia law went into effect in Brunei. The newest and third phase of the law is difficult news for Christian converts who are expected to have to go into deeper hiding in the small Sultan-ruled country on the Southeast Asian island of Borneo where conversion from Islam […]
(Evangelical Focus) — The main theological training centres of the Pentecostal Union and the Baptist Union in Russia have been forced to stop their activities. According to a Forum 18 report, Russian evangelical Christians see the increase of control over these kind of institutions as “a means by which the authorities are attempting to curtail […]
GUANGZHOU, Guangdong — Officials in the Chinese city of Guangzhou have announced that rewards are being offered for those who report “illegal religious activities,” a term that applies not only to terrorist activities, or those who “use religion to … undermine national unity,” but also those who “establish religious venues without authorization” or “conduct religious […]
NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – Nearly two months after Hindu extremists in India humiliated, beat and forced Christians to praise a Hindu god, the host of the house church has yet to return to his home. Ranjeet Kumar Gautam is still in hiding after more than 20 Hindu extremists in Chapar village, Sultanpur District, Uttar […]
(Mission Network News) — Doors of opportunity are opening for World Missionary Press (WMP) to send Scripture booklets into Muslim-majority areas. In the past, it hasn’t been safe to send booklets to contacts for distribution among the people. However, contacts in Kazakhstan, Northern Nigeria, Senegal, and other areas are now giving WMP the green light […]
(International Christian Concern) – International Christian Concern (ICC) has learned that on Saturday, March 23, at around 1:50 p.m., more than 20 police officers and other Chinese government officials raided a Bible school class at Beijing’s Shouwang Church. The authorities demanded the church to cease its activities immediately and read out an official document formally […]
LONDON — A mother in the United Kingdom has taken formal legal action against her son’s former elementary school after he was not permitted to opt out of an event in celebration of Pride Month last June. According to reports, Heavers Farm Primary School in London held an event on June 29 called “Proud to Be […]
(The Christian Institute) — A national newspaper has said police time and resources are being wasted by making officers in England and Wales “arbiters of acceptable opinion.” The Telegraph criticized the police for “the continued harassment of people, often Christians, for making perfectly lawful statements that are decreed ‘hate crimes.’” In October, the U.K. government […]