Real-time updates on incidents, legal cases, policy changes, and testimonies from the persecuted Church.
China Expels House Church Leader From Beijing
Posted on Saturday, January 17, 2009
Chinese security forces expelled well-known evangelist and leader of China's growing house church movement, Pastor 'Bike' Zhang Mingxuan, from the capital Beijing Friday, January 16, while he was praying for a dying Christian man, a well-informed advocacy group…
India State Detains Christian Missionary
Posted on Tuesday, January 13, 2009
A Christian missionary remained detained in India Tuesday, January 13, more than a week after he was detained in the state of Madhya Pradesh for allegedly forcing people to convert to Christianity, his organization said.
Jailed Missionaries in Gambia Seek Freedom
Posted on Friday, January 9, 2009
A British missionary couple sentenced to one year jail terms with hard labor for "sedition" in The Gambia, has "apologized" to the government of President Yahya Jammeh and asked him for clemency through a letter read on national…
Karen Girl Raped and Killed by Burma Army Soldier
Posted on Monday, January 5, 2009
Villagers of the mainly Christian Karen minority in Burma on Monday, January 5, were mourning the death of a seven-year old girl who was raped and murdered by at least one government soldier, the latest in a series…
Taliban Imposes Islamic Law In Pakistan Region
Posted on Thursday, January 1, 2009
Minority Christians and other non-Muslims faced potential persecution Tuesday, December 30, as militants linked to Taliban and Al-Qaeda groups imposed Shariah, or Islamic law, in the Orakzai Agency tribal region of the restive Pakistani North West Frontier Province…
China Court Case Against Officials Banning Worship Services
Posted on Thursday, January 1, 2009
In a unprecedented move, a Chinese court has agreed to hear a case filed by a pastor against government officials who prohibited worship services in his house church, observers familiar with the trial said Wednesday, December 31.
China Christian Workers And Survivors Missing In Earthquake Zone
Posted on Wednesday, December 31, 2008
Several Christian volunteers and survivors of China's worst earthquake in a generation remained missing Sunday, December 28, after Christmas Eve police raids on homes under construction in the devastated Sichuan province amid anger among authorities over the involvement…
Cuba Prominent Church Leader On Trial
Posted on Monday, December 29, 2008
A prominent evangelical church leader in Cuba will be put on trial next week and is facing a one-year prison sentence as part of what his supporters call "a government campaign to silence and discredit him," because of…
Two Chinese Pastors Say Bye to Jail, Spend Christmas at Home
Posted on Friday, December 26, 2008
In a good turn of events, two Chinese pastors Wang Weiliang and Zhu Baoguo will be spending this year's Christmas at home after their miraculous release from jail by the authorities in China for medical reasons.
China Launches Christmas Crackdown On Christian Worship
Posted on Friday, December 26, 2008
Christians in several parts of China were behind bars on Christmas Day after a police crackdown on worship services and Bible study, a Christian advocacy group said Thursday, December 25.
Tajikistan Churches Facing Closure In New Year
Posted on Friday, December 26, 2008
A major Christian rights group warned Tuesday, December 23, that many churches in the former Soviet republic of Tajikistan in 2009, if a new draft law requiring them to re-register under restrictive conditions is adopted by parliament.
Bangladesh: Buddhist Clerics Take Christians Captive
Posted on Monday, December 22, 2008
Buddhist clerics and local council officials are holding 13 newly converted Christians captive in a pagoda in a southeastern mountainous district of Bangladesh in an attempt to forcibly return them to Buddhism.
Eritrea Christians Apparently Killed In Massive Detentions
Posted on Monday, December 22, 2008
Several churches in Eritrea were without their leaders or other believers Sunday, December 21, as a government-backed campaign of mass arrests reached the capital Asmara amid fears several detainees died of mistreatment, Christians said.
Pakistan Police Raid Christian Slum; Women Injured
Posted on Friday, December 19, 2008
Pakistani police ransacked run-down homes of Christians living in a slum of Pakistan's 10th largest city and "severely tortured Christian women" leaving several of them "critically injured", local residents told BosNewsLife.
Massive Arrests Of Christians In China
Posted on Friday, December 19, 2008
Over a dozen Christians will spend Christmas behind bars in China after police raided a Christian leaders gathering in Henan province, while in the capital Beijing two officials of the banned Chinese House Church Alliance were detained, an…
Indonesia Muslims Burn Churches, Homes Over Blasphemy
Posted on Thursday, December 18, 2008
A tense calm returned to a village in Indonesia's Central Maluku province, where angry Muslims torched churches, dozens of homes and other properties after a Christian teacher allegedly made comments insulting Islam, rights investigators said Wednesday, December 17.
Vietnam: Authorities Destroy New Church Building
Posted on Thursday, December 18, 2008
Local government officials in Dak Lak Province this morning made good on their threat to destroy a new wooden church building erected in September by Hmong Christians in Cu Hat village.
India Militants Attack Christians In Karnataka; Church Bombers Sentenced
Posted on Monday, December 15, 2008
A nation-wide alliance of Christian leaders, churches, mission agencies, and other Christian institutions in India has condemned widespread anti-Christian violence in the Indian state of Karnataka, which injured dozens, but "welcomed" the sentencing of those involved in church…
