Real-time updates on incidents, legal cases, policy changes, and testimonies from the persecuted Church.
Pastor told to deny Christ, or stay in prison
Posted on Wednesday, April 24, 2013
An American pastor sentenced to eight years in an Iranian prison for planting house churches in the Islamic Republic a decade ago recently wrote that prison officials have told him to either deny Christ, or remain incarcerated indefinitely,…
Egypt: Human Rights Watch calls for Justice
Posted on Monday, April 22, 2013
Human Rights Watch has called upon Egyptian authorities to bring those responsible for the deaths and injuries of Christians to justice after Muslim police failed to prevent the Islamist inspired violence outside St. Mark’s Cathedral in Cairo on April 7.
Bail petitioned for Christian accused of blasphemy
Posted on Thursday, April 18, 2013
The Legal Evangelical Association (for) Development (LEAD) filed a bail petition Monday in the Session Court of Lahore on behalf of Sawan Masih, an imprisoned Pakistani Christian accused of blasphemy.
Peace for Christians, Muslims in Kaduna
Posted on Tuesday, April 16, 2013
Peace overtures between Christians and Muslims in Kaduna state, Nigeria, briefly became a reality as both religions joined together on Easter Monday to celebrate, according to allAfrica news.
Pakistan: Deja vu after Muslims attack Colony Christians
Posted on Thursday, April 11, 2013
Within hours after Pakistan's Supreme Court condemned police for not stopping rampaging Muslims from destroying nearly 200 Christian homes in the Joseph Colony of Lahore, another Muslim mob damaged Christian-owned shops and a church in the Francis Colony…
Jail for practicing your religion?
Posted on Monday, April 8, 2013
In Kazakhstan, anyone who shares their faith could be jailed under proposed new laws that would increase the penalties for those practicing their religion.
Sudan uses Shari’a against its own Christians
Posted on Monday, April 8, 2013
After the South seceded in 2011, President Al-Bashir promised to make what remained of Sudan "100 percent" Islamic; to that end, the Sudanese government has enhanced its enforcement of Shari'a against any Christians who remain under Al-Bashir's rule.
Egypt Clashes Kill 4 Christians, 1 Muslim
Posted on Monday, April 8, 2013
At least four Christians and one Muslim, all men, were killed and a church damaged in sectarian clashes just outside Egypt's capital, security sources confirmed.
Church Walls Ordered Razed by Local Indonesian Officials
Posted on Monday, April 1, 2013
Crowds cheered as a demolition crew destroyed the newly erected walls of the Batak Protestant Church in the Bekasi district of Jakarta Thursday in yet another setback for Christians trying to survive in the planet's most populous Muslim…
‘Burma Troops Kill, Rape Christian Civilians; Churches Burned’
Posted on Sunday, March 24, 2013
Rights groups urged the world to pressure Burma to end a crackdown on ethnic and religious minorities after government troops reportedly killed and raped dozens of mainly Christian civilians while burning hundreds of churches and homes.
Thousands Of Trapped Christians Rescued In Sudan
Posted on Thursday, March 21, 2013
Some 1,500 Christians trapped in Sudan are on their way to neighboring South Sudan, as part of a massive rescue operation dubbed 'Exodus', an aid group told Worthy News.
Pakistan promises to rebuild Christian homes, but …
Posted on Thursday, March 21, 2013
Although the government of Pakistan promised to rebuild nearly 200 Christian homes destroyed by a Muslim mob in Lahore on March 9, many doubt it will bring the rioters to justice because anti-Christian violence perpetrated in Pakistan often…
Religious Police Force for Egypt?
Posted on Sunday, March 17, 2013
News of a religious police force to uphold Muslim morals in a nation now controlled by Islam's Muslim Brotherhood is the latest harbinger of Egypt's transformation into an intolerant Islamic state.
