Real-time updates on incidents, legal cases, policy changes, and testimonies from the persecuted Church.
Iranian Christian flees country
Posted on Friday, December 18, 2015
An Iranian convert to Christianity who was arrested during a raid of a fellowship gathering in the city of Karaj on Aug. 7 has decided to take the 'advice' of his Revolutionary Guard interrogators and leave Iran.
Pakistan: Christians Fight Eviction
Posted on Thursday, December 17, 2015
Thousands of poor Pakistanis face the destruction of their temporary homes in Islamabad after a government agency announced last week that Christian migrant slums threatened the demographics of the city's Muslim majority.
Uzbekistan: Christian meeting raided by police
Posted on Thursday, December 10, 2015
A dozen Christians who had met last month in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, were detained after plain-clothed policemen broke up their gathering and confiscated their Christian literature.
Pakistan: Arson Fire at Christian TV Station
Posted on Monday, December 7, 2015
Pakistani police are deliberately downplaying any chance of arson after a suspicious fire damaged a Christian cable TV station in Karachi last week.
India: Hindus asault Christians
Posted on Wednesday, December 2, 2015
Forty Christians were severely beaten by Hindu nationals in India's Telangana state last month after holding a prayer meeting in a private home.
Turkey: Historic Protestant Church reopens
Posted on Tuesday, December 1, 2015
One of the oldest churches in Turkey reopened this month. According to AINA, a worship service was recently held in the 160-year-old Mardin Protestant Church after extensive restorations as the building had been left in ruins for 60…
Iraqi Parliament passes discriminatory law
Posted on Tuesday, December 1, 2015
Late last month, the Iraqi Parliament passed a law mandating that the Christian children of fathers who convert to Islam and those of mothers who marry Muslims will all automatically become Muslims themselves, whether they want to, or…
Bangladesh: Christians survive arson attacks
Posted on Monday, November 23, 2015
In early November, a group of Muslims attempted to burn four Christian families alive by setting their homes in the village of Kamarpara, Bangladesh, on fire, but neighbors helped them to escape the flames.
CAR: Revenge attacks against Christians
Posted on Wednesday, November 11, 2015
The bodies of more than 30 Christians were left outside a church in the Central African Republic capital of Bangui in retaliation for the deaths of three Muslims who were ambushed in October by so-called Christian militia.
Germany: Muslims persecute Christian refugees
Posted on Wednesday, November 11, 2015
A family that fled the violence in the Middle East only to to return to Iraq after being persecuted by Syrian Islamists in a refugee camp in Freising is just one example of how badly Christians are being…
‘Sick of Islam,’ Muslims turn to Christ
Posted on Monday, November 9, 2015
Kurdish Muslims in Iraq are turning to Christ after witnessing first hand the brutality of ISIS as it wages violent jihad in the name of Islam.
