Real-time updates on incidents, legal cases, policy changes, and testimonies from the persecuted Church.
Nigeria: Islamist Group Attacking Christians in Kwara State
Posted on Monday, August 18, 2008
Blaming the death of their leader on Christian prayers, an Islamist group that launched a hate campaign in response to an evangelistic event in 2004 is reportedly attacking Christians in this Kwara state capital with renewed virulence, area…
Student Attacked Over Gospel Tract
Posted on Monday, August 18, 2008
Sohan didn't know what to expect when the man asked him to wait for just a minute. Sohan, a third year student at a Gospel for Asia Bible college, was handing out Gospel tracts in a city in…
Eritrea Shuts Christian Students into Shipping Containers
Posted on Monday, August 11, 2008
Authorities on Tuesday (August 5) locked up eight high school students at a military training school in metal shipping containers for objecting to the burning of hundreds of Bibles, sources told Compass.
President Bush Visit Officially Staged Church Service
Posted on Monday, August 11, 2008
As President Bush today (Sunday) visited and attended a service at the Three Self Patriotic Movement's (TSPM)Kuanjie Church established by the government, a renowned Christian social activist in Beijing was arrested once again by the Chinese police, but…
Laos: Authorities Detain 90 Christians
Posted on Sunday, August 10, 2008
Authorities in Laos have detained or arrested at least 90 Christians in three provinces in recent weeks, including an arrest last Sunday (Aug. 3) of a pastor and two other believers from a house church in Boukham village,…
Pakistan: Christian Allegedly Murdered
Posted on Sunday, August 10, 2008
Local Pakistani police declared the death of a young Christian man in May to be a suicide requiring no investigation, but a high inspector has reopened the case and taken two Muslim suspects into custody.
Gospel for Asia Missionaries Released
Posted on Sunday, August 10, 2008
Four Gospel for Asia missionaries being held in a Karnataka, India, jail were released Friday after spending more than a week there. They are now being taken to a hospital for medical treatment.
China Detains House Church Leader As Olympics Begin
Posted on Sunday, August 10, 2008
As China prepared for the opening of the Beijing Olympic Games Friday, August 8, a key Chinese house church leader and his wife remained detained amid signs government leaders fear Christians will use the event to highlight reports…
India Christian Couple Detained On “Forced Conversion” Charges
Posted on Friday, August 8, 2008
The pastor of a Full Gospel Church of God (FGCB) congregation and his wife remained detained Wednesday, August 6, in India's state of Madhya Pradesh on changes of "forced conversion," church members and investigators told BosNewsLife.
China: House Church Pastor Detained
Posted on Friday, August 8, 2008
Chinese police detained house church leader Zhang Mingxuan, along with his wife Xie Fenlang and co-pastor Wu Jiang He, at a police station in Hebei after a BBC journalist attempted to interview him on Monday (August 4).
