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Christians in India scapegoated for Catholic child trafficking scandal and Muslim forced marriages

Posted on Wednesday, March 25, 2020

In a tragic misunderstanding, the leader of a Hindu nationalist organization in India is vowing to prevent the spread of Christian faith across his country because of alleged child trafficking activities of the charity founded by Mother Theresa…

Hindu nationalists and police in India siding together against Christians

Posted on Monday, March 23, 2020

A young pastor in India and his congregation were attacked by a 200-man-strong mob of Hindu nationalists brandishing hockey sticks last week, sending the Christians to prison, where they endured a demonic level of police brutality.

Indian religious nationalists target 30 locations where they say conversions are happening, leading to persecution of Christians

Posted on Sunday, March 22, 2020

Christians in Utter Pradesh State, India, are experiencing a barrage of attacks after religious nationalists pinpointed 30 locations across the state where they claimed conversions to Christian faith were taking place.

Pastor and children attacked in India for not participating in Hindu holiday, lose everything

Posted on Sunday, March 22, 2020

A Christian family was driven into the jungle by tribal animists in India last week after Hindu nationalists instigated local animists against a pastor and destroyed his home.

China take advantage of crisis to demolish churches, destroy crosses

Posted on Sunday, March 22, 2020

China is using the widespread coronavirus outbreak within its borders as an opportunity to attack Christian faith, with the communist government demolishing churches or removing their crosses over the month of March.

Ex-Terrorist Leads Indonesia’s Christian Convert Movement

Posted on Wednesday, March 18, 2020

The married-father-of-three has come a long way since he nearly blew up a Protestant church in Jakarta. Author Ahmad Quraisy, which isn’t his family name, was a commander of the feared Islamic State of Indonesia (NII), an Indonesian…

Three-Self Church in China becomes secret house church

Posted on Sunday, March 15, 2020

A church in China formerly part of the government-recognized Three-self branch of churches was shut down, propelling around 200 believers to begin to meet in secret.

Finnish MP under investigation for supporting biblical view of sexuality

Posted on Sunday, March 15, 2020

A Finnish Member of Parliament is under investigation for expressing the biblical view of sexuality in a series of television interviews, police charging her with "hate speech" in a case that civil liberties groups are seeing as a…

Many more Christians killed in Nigeria than was once thought

Posted on Sunday, March 15, 2020

A Nigerian civil society grouped has traced the genocidal activities of Muslim groups in that country and found that earlier estimates of the numbers of Christians killed over the last few years were far too modest.

‘Zionist’ Christian in Iran receives extension on prison sentence

Posted on Thursday, March 12, 2020

'Evangelical Zionist Christianity' is the charge laid against a Christian convert in Iran whose prison sentence the government recently extended.

Indian pastor tied to tree and beaten by radicals, charged with forced conversions

Posted on Thursday, March 12, 2020

A pastor in India is in hiding after receiving charges for "illegal conversion" following a beating by more than 150 Hindu radicals.

Iranians to be released from prison in droves as government fumbles to contain coronavirus

Posted on Thursday, March 12, 2020

Iranian Christians are asking for prayer support as the Islamic Republic, in an effort to stop the spread of coronavirus, has begun releasing huge crowds of prisoners that include persecuted Christians.

Additional information surfaces about kidnapping of Christian Rohingya pastor

Posted on Wednesday, March 11, 2020

More information has surfaced about an attack on Rohingya Christian refugees in a Bangladeshi refugee camp last month by their fellow Muslim Rohingya, confirming earlier reports about the brutal assault.

Christian leader in India run over by Hindu nationalists on motorcycles

Posted on Monday, March 9, 2020

Hindu nationalists in India ran over an evangelical leader with motorcycles, accusing the Christian man of forcibly converting Hindus to Christianity.

Iranian Christians, denied justice, face five years in prison

Posted on Sunday, March 8, 2020

The sentences of nine Iranian Christian converts were upheld after a judge who has become notorious for persecuting prisoners of conscience barred them from using their own lawyers.

Iranian Christian man denied asylum in UK after judge claims he won’t face persecution in Iran

Posted on Tuesday, March 3, 2020

An Iranian Christian convert from Islam has been denied asylum in the UK after a judge concluded he would not face a 'real act of persecution' by staying in his home country.

Disappeared Iranian convert rediscovered after more than a month in prison

Posted on Tuesday, March 3, 2020

An Iranian convert from Islam arrested during anti-government protests following the downing of a Ukrainian jet in Tehran last month was released on bail from Iran's most dangerous prison after over a month during which her whereabouts were…

Pastor of Wuhan church says coronavirus an “opportunity to glorify God”

Posted on Tuesday, March 3, 2020

A church in Wuhan, China recently testified to God's grace in the midst of the coronavirus outbreak that has infected 90,000 people and killed 3,100 people worldwide.

Al-Qaida-linked terrorists order Christians to leave northeast Kenya

Posted on Tuesday, March 3, 2020

Somali terrorist group al Shabab has ordered all Christians to leave three counties in northern Kenya, where the group hopes to give their jobs to local Muslims.

Nigerian government acknowledges for first time that Christians are being targeted by Islamic terrorists

Posted on Monday, March 2, 2020

The Nigerian government has done an about-face in regard to its assessment of Boko Haram and Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) attacks that have slain thousands of Christians in the last few years.

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