Real-time updates on incidents, legal cases, policy changes, and testimonies from the persecuted Church.
Genocide waged on religious minorities in Syria, Iraq
Posted on Tuesday, March 8, 2016
The U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee has unanimously passed HR 75, a resolution declaring that those who commit or support mass murder against religious minorities are guilty of "genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity."
Pakistan: Christian forced to become ‘sweeper’
Posted on Wednesday, March 2, 2016
This month a committee was formed in Faisalabad, Pakistan, to investigate any possible discrimination after a Christian was told that he could not work as the school's waterman because of his faith.
Mexico: Utilities restored to evangelicals
Posted on Sunday, February 28, 2016
Twenty-seven evangelical Protestant families in Chiapas state, Mexico, will finally have their access to water and electricity returned after local authorities had agreed two years ago to respect their minority religious freedoms in the village of Union Juarez,…
Persecution in India gets congressional response
Posted on Sunday, February 28, 2016
A bipartisan congressional letter was sent last week to Prime Minister Modi requesting that he strongly condemn the persecution of India's religious minorities and to uphold the rule of law.
China: Campaign vs. Christians spreads to Guangdong
Posted on Wednesday, February 24, 2016
Authorities have been harassing unofficial house churches in the Chinese province of Guangdong that haven't submitted to the Communist Party's Three-Self Association program.
CAR: Fulani Muslims burn Christians’ fields
Posted on Wednesday, February 24, 2016
Fulani Muslim cattle herders have been burning the fields of Christian farmers in the northern regions of the Central African Republic.
India: Hindus injure Christians
Posted on Sunday, February 21, 2016
A mob of Hindu nationalists assaulted a Christian prayer gathering in Nagepur village in Telangana State on Jan. 17, resulting in the hospitalization of six Christians.
Egypt: Army begins promised restorations
Posted on Tuesday, February 9, 2016
The Egyptian Army has finally begun to rebuild the country's churches as per a promise made by President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi almost three years ago.
Turkey: Court rules gov’t failed to protect Christians
Posted on Thursday, February 4, 2016
The Malatya Administrative Court ruled last week that the Turkish government was negligent in its duty to protect three Christians who were tortured and killed in 2007 and ordered it to pay one million lira ($333,980) in compensation…
Mexico: Baptists families expelled
Posted on Thursday, February 4, 2016
Ten Baptist families were unceremoniously expelled from the community of Tuxpan de Bolanos in the state of Jalisco, Mexico, last week for refusing to recant their faith.
Nigeria: Pastors kidnapped
Posted on Tuesday, February 2, 2016
Two Nigerian pastors have been abducted this month in Kogi state, Nigeria.
Turkish textbooks encourage intolerance
Posted on Friday, January 29, 2016
Theoretically, Turkey allows non-Muslims to be exempted from compulsory religious education if their religion is on record with the state. But parents have complained that some schools have refused to allow their children to be exempted.
Cuban gov’t demolishes two churches
Posted on Monday, January 25, 2016
Earlier this month, police in Cuba had arrested two pastors while government officials supervised the demolition of their churches.
