Real-time updates on incidents, legal cases, policy changes, and testimonies from the persecuted Church.
Christians in Turkey Acquitted of ‘Insulting Turkishness’
Posted on Sunday, October 24, 2010
After a lengthy legal battle, a Turkish judge acquitted two Christians of insulting Turkey and its people by spreading Christianity, but not without imposing a heavy fine for another unrelated charge.
NEWS ALERT: Iran Releases Pastor’s Wife as Husband Faces Execution
Posted on Monday, October 18, 2010
The wife of a prominent evangelical pastor in Iran was free Monday, October 18, after four months of detention, but her husband still faced the death penalty for abandoning Islam, the Church of Iran said. Fatemeh Passandideh, the…
Chinese Christians Attacked
Posted on Friday, October 1, 2010
Members of the Three-Self Patriotic Movement Changchunli Church in Ji'nan, Shandong province, were attacked by a mob of over 200 people last week, according to ChinaAid.
Imminent Islamic uprising raises fears in Nigeria
Posted on Friday, October 1, 2010
A jailbreak of militant Muslims in northern Nigeria has raised fears that Boko Haram is planning a resurgence in murder and mayhem directed against a state already under seige.
Group:’Muslims Ambush, Assault Pakistani Pastor’
Posted on Thursday, September 30, 2010
Three Muslims beat a pastor and left him for dead in the village of Sanda Chistana, Pakistan, a Washington-based Christian human rights organization said Thursday, September 30.
Ethiopian Muslims Burn Down Christian Homes, Farms
Posted on Thursday, September 30, 2010
Twenty-five Muslims burned down ten Christian homes, leaving eighty Christians homeless in Ethiopia, a Washington-based rights' group said Thursday, September 30.