Real-time updates on incidents, legal cases, policy changes, and testimonies from the persecuted Church.
Pakistan Militants Threaten To Kill Christian Lawyer
Posted on Tuesday, June 25, 2013
The chief lawyer defending Christian women who were reportedly sexually abused by activists of Pakistan's ruling party said Monday, June 24, that Muslim militants have threatened to kill him if he and his legal team continue with this…
Christians Slain by Islamists in Nigeria
Posted on Monday, June 24, 2013
In the latest of a series of attacks this year in the Wase area of Plateau state, Nigeria, Fulani Muslims killed one Christian and destroyed church buildings in four villages Tuesday.
Christian Executed in Somalia
Posted on Monday, June 24, 2013
This month, members of the militant al-Shabaab sect publicly executed a young man to death in southern Somalia simply because he was a Christian.
Four Iranian Converts Convicted of Christianity
Posted on Friday, June 21, 2013
While the world's attention was focused on Iran's presidential election, four converts to Christianity were found guilty by an Iranian court of no longer being Muslims.
Eritrea: “a Giant Prison”
Posted on Tuesday, June 18, 2013
Human Rights Watch described it as "a giant prison" and Reporters without Borders called it "the most repressive nation on earth".
Eritrea: Christians Continue to Face Persecution
Posted on Monday, June 10, 2013
Religious persecution in Eritrea is at its highest ever and getting even worse, according to World Watch Monitor, the news outlet of Open Doors, a Christian charity that ranked Eritrea 10th on its World Watch List.
India Militants Attack Baptist Pastors; Several Injured
Posted on Monday, June 10, 2013
Twenty Baptist pastors have been attacked by suspected Hindu militants in southeastern India and several church leaders required hospital treatment for severe injuries, representatives said Friday, June 7.
Zanzibar: Islamist hotbed of hate
Posted on Friday, June 7, 2013
Tanzania, whose population is almost entirely Muslim, has seen a sharp rise in the persecution of Christians, especially on Zanzibar, a small island off Tanzania's east coast where Pastor Dickson's church was attacked on May 26.
China Plans To End House Churches
Posted on Thursday, June 6, 2013
China's closure of a dozen churches in Hainan Province while threatening to close many more strongly suggests that the Communist government has a clandestine plan to eliminate all unregistered house churches, according to the China Aid Association.
Uzbekistan: Religious lit under state control
Posted on Tuesday, June 4, 2013
Sharofat Allamova, a Protestant from the Khorezm Region of Uzbekistan, has been sentenced to one and a half years of corrective labor for the "illegal production, storage, import or distribution of religious literature," according to Forum 18 News…
Iran arrests Pastor, then closes his Church
Posted on Monday, June 3, 2013
Iranian agents closed Iran's largest Persian-language Pentecostal church Monday, one week after arresting its pastor during worship services, according to Fox News.
‘Reign of terror’ against Christians in CAR
Posted on Monday, May 27, 2013
Islamic militants launched a "reign of terror" against Christians in the Central African Republic after Seleka rebels took control of the country in a March 24 coup.
Iran Detains Pastor As Church Faces Closure In Wider Crackdown
Posted on Wednesday, May 22, 2013
A pastor of the Central Assemblies of God (AoG) Church in Tehran was detained Tuesday, May 21, as part of Iran's wider crackdown on evangelical believers, Christian rights activists confirmed. The arrest of Reverend Robert Asserian came as…
