Real-time updates on incidents, legal cases, policy changes, and testimonies from the persecuted Church.
China: Pastor of official church sentenced
Posted on Wednesday, March 23, 2016
The pastor of an official church in Zhejiang Province was sentenced after he dared to criticize Communist authorities about China's ongoing demolition of church crosses.
Iraq: IS burns Christian books
Posted on Monday, March 21, 2016
Last week the Islamic State posted an online video showing its jihadists throwing books bearing crosses on their covers into a bonfire in the city of Mosul, in northern Iraq.
Yemen: 16 Victims Shot Execution-Style
Posted on Wednesday, March 16, 2016
Gunmen who stormed a Catholic-run retirement home in Aden, Yemen, went from room to room handcuffing their victims before fatally shooting 16 staff members, including four nuns.
Attack on Church Building in Samsun, Turkey
Posted on Wednesday, March 9, 2016
Four Muslim men detained by police for attacking a church building in the Black Sea region of Turkey last week shouted jihadist slogans after they were released from custody.
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.
