Real-time updates on incidents, legal cases, policy changes, and testimonies from the persecuted Church.
Nigeria: Church Saved from Bomb
Posted on Tuesday, July 21, 2015
Mass murder in Plateau State was narrowly averted July 12 after a security guard spotted a bomb at a church's entrance and threw it away just before it exploded.
India: Churches Attacked
Posted on Monday, July 20, 2015
In the early hours of June 28, suspected Hindu nationalists destroyed the cross of a church in India's Bhiwani district, Haryana state, according to Barnabas Aid.
Mexico’s Persecution of Protestant Christians
Posted on Friday, July 17, 2015
United States officials have questioned Mexico's government regarding reports of widespread discrimination and displacement of Protestant Christian communities in Chiapas and other Mexican states.
Egypt: Coptic Christians flee Sinai
Posted on Tuesday, July 14, 2015
Coptic Christians continue to flee the Sinai after Islamists accused them of helping to oust Egypt's president back in 2013.
China: Communist Cross Demolition Spreads
Posted on Tuesday, July 14, 2015
The demolition of church crosses by Chinese Communists has spread from Wenzhou to Zhejiang province after five Catholic churches had their crosses forcibly removed last week.
Sudan Court Fines Christian Woman
Posted on Tuesday, July 14, 2015
A Sudanese court fined a Christian woman last week for wearing what it ruled was an "indecent dress."
Nigeria: Two Churches Attacked in Jos
Posted on Friday, July 10, 2015
Last week, Muslims attacked the Winning All Good News Church and St. Michael's Parish of the First African Church Mission, both in Jos, Nigeria.
Indonesia: Churches Protest Wrongful Closings
Posted on Friday, July 10, 2015
Two churches in Indonesia have been protesting the wrongful closing of their buildings by holding joint services just outside of the presidential palace in Jakarta.
Vietnam: Persecution of Christian Montagnards is ‘state policy’
Posted on Tuesday, July 7, 2015
The persecution of religious minorities is now official Vietnamese state policy after Human Rights Watch released a June report revealing that government's intentions to persecute any ethnic Montagnards who follow "unauthorized" Christianity.
Armenian Turks Convert back to Christianity
Posted on Thursday, July 2, 2015
Twelve Armenians who were baptized last month in Istanbul were among the many former Muslims who are now openly embracing Christ after their ancestors were forced to follow Islam during the Armenian and Assyrian genocides that killed millions…
India: Hindu Nationalists Attack Local Christians
Posted on Tuesday, June 30, 2015
Hundreds of Christians were brutally attacked by Hindu nationalists during a Sunday church service last month in India's Kerala state.
According to International Christian Concern, more than 400 believers -- mostly converts to Christianity...
Zanzibar: Islamists Take Church’s Hall
Posted on Thursday, June 25, 2015
Islamists on the semi-autonomous island of Zanzibar off Tanzania's coast have driven a local pastor into hiding after taking over his church's rented hall.
