Real-time updates on incidents, legal cases, policy changes, and testimonies from the persecuted Church.
Chinese Government Destroys Christian-Owned Factory
Posted on Wednesday, August 11, 2010
Last September, a mob of over 200 men led by Chinese Communist officials injured at least thirty people and demolished a Christian-owned factory in Linfen, along with its house church, Worthy News learned on August 11.
Mob Surrounds Church in Indonesia, Christians Attacked
Posted on Monday, August 9, 2010
Hundreds of Muslim militants surrounded and attacked a Protestant church in Indonesia’s province of West Java, injuring at least a dozen Christians including a pastor on Sunday, August 8.
Uzbekistan Jails Baptists, Threatens Church
Posted on Monday, August 9, 2010
Police in Uzbekistan jailed ten Baptists for three to five days, and fining them 80 times the monthly minimum wage, according to a religious rights group, Worthy News learned on Monday, August 9.
Humanitarian Aid Workers Massacred by Taliban
Posted on Monday, August 9, 2010
Six American and two European aid workers were murdered in northern Afghanistan along with two Afghan colleagues as they were returning to Kabul from a medical mission in a remote mountainous area, Worthy News learned on Sunday, August…
North Korea Urged To Release American Christian Amid War Games
Posted on Monday, July 26, 2010
Rights investigators expressed concerns Monday, July 26, about the plight of a jailed American Christian in North Korea, while U.S.and South Korean warships practiced anti-submarine maneuvers off the Korean peninsula to warn Pyongyang against aggression.
NEWS WATCH: Experts Exhume Bodies of Romanian Dictator, Wife
Posted on Wednesday, July 21, 2010
Forensic analysts have exhumed what are believed to be the bodies of late Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife, Elena, who were executed in 1989. It comes after relatives raised doubts that the couple was really buried…
Muslim Lawyer Apologizes For Anti-Christian Leaflets
Posted on Sunday, July 18, 2010
A Muslim lawyer has apologized for thousands of anti-Christian leaflets distributed in Pakistan at a reconciliation meeting with Christian leaders who said they forgave him because they are followers of "the Prince of Peace," according to delegates attending…
Pakistan Politician Facing Death Threats For Defending Christians
Posted on Sunday, July 18, 2010
A high-ranking Pakistani politician, who negotiated the release of kidnapped Christians and fought against controversial blasphemy laws, says he and his family are in life danger after receiving threatening phone calls from suspected Islamic militants.
BREAKING NEWS: Pentecostal Pastor Shot Dead In Dagestan
Posted on Friday, July 16, 2010
The pastor of the largest Pentecostal church in Russia's violent, mainly Muslim republic of Dagestan, has died after being shot in the head, in an apparent bid to intimidate converts from Islam, Christian rights activists and police said…
BREAKING NEWS: Iran Pastor Facing Execution, Church Official
Posted on Tuesday, July 13, 2010
A well-known Iranian pastor faces execution after two judges agreed to make him "liable to capital punishment," as part of a crackdown on the growing Protestant church movement in the Islamic nation, Worthy News and its parner agency…
NEWS ALERT: Cuba To Release 52 Dissidents, Church Says
Posted on Thursday, July 8, 2010
Cuba will release 52 political prisoners as part of the communist-run Caribbean island's largest release of dissidents since Pope John Paul II visited in 1998, the Cuban Catholic Church said comments monitored by Worthy News Thursday, July 8.
Eight Christians Killed in Nigerian Muslim Attacks
Posted on Wednesday, July 7, 2010
Christians in two states of Nigeria were mourning Wednesday, July 7, the killings of at least eight Christian believers, after Muslim militants reportedly attacked several villages.
NEWS ALERT: Niger Christians Starving, Group Says
Posted on Tuesday, July 6, 2010
Christians in this vast, drought-prone country on the edge of the Sahara desert, were among those facing starvation Tuesday, July 6, after aid groups described the food situation in Niger as "extremely desperate".
Pakistan Legislator “Kidnaps” Christian Woman
Posted on Monday, June 28, 2010
A Christian woman remained in hospital Monday, June 28, after she was beaten and briefly abducted on the orders of a prominent Pakistani Muslim legislator "because Christians didn't vote" for him, family and police said.
