Real-time updates on incidents, legal cases, policy changes, and testimonies from the persecuted Church.
Iran: Tortured Christian Flees
Posted on Wednesday, July 23, 2008
Days after his release from a month of interrogations and severe torture under secret police custody, Iranian Christian Mohsen Namvar has fled across the border into Turkey with his family.
India: State Admits Few Complaints of ‘Forced’ Conversions
Posted on Friday, July 18, 2008
The Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party government in Gujarat state has disclosed that there were only three complaints of alleged "forcible" conversions in the state in the last 10 years, and only two of those concerned Christian conversions.
Spike in Attacks against Egyptian Coptic Christians
Posted on Wednesday, July 16, 2008
The Washington-DC based human rights group, International Christian Concern (ICC) www.persecution.org has learned that a recent increase in attacks against Egypt’s Coptic Christians has prompted various Christian groups to organize demonstrations condemning fanatic Muslims engaging in these attacks…
Muslim Mob Attack Protestant Church In Pakistan
Posted on Wednesday, July 16, 2008
A tense calm returned Tuesday, July 15, to the outskirts of Pakistan's largest city, Karachi, after several Christians, including a pastor, were injured when Muslim militants stormed a Protestant church during a prayer service, officials told BosNewsLife.
Indonesia: Religious Tensions Rise in West Papua
Posted on Tuesday, July 15, 2008
Authorities in West Papua, Indonesia, must move fast to prevent tension between Christian and Muslim communities escalating into a Malukan-style conflict, according to a recent report by the International Crisis Group (ICG).
Uzbekistan “Bans” Bibles
Posted on Tuesday, July 15, 2008
Thousands of Christians in Uzbekistan were without anticipated Bibles and related Christian literature Sunday, July 13, as authorities have reportedly imposed a ban on Bible imports, a major Christian publishing group said.
Protestant Christian Faces 15 Years Prison In Uzbekistan
Posted on Tuesday, July 15, 2008
A Protestant Christian leader in Uzbekistan faces up to 15 years in prison on charges that include teaching religion without official approval and encouraging people to read "prohibited Christian literature," a major religious rights group said Monday, July…
Yemen: Arrests May Spark New Wave of Persecution
Posted on Monday, July 14, 2008
On 18 June Yemeni news source Al Sahwa reported that Yemeni political security forces in Hodiada province had arrested a "missionary cell" of seven people and charged them with promoting Christianity and distributing the Bible. One of those…
Christian Community Again Attacked In India’s Orissa State
Posted on Thursday, July 10, 2008
Christian orphans were without shelter Wednesday July 9, as Hindu militants attacked their orphanage, a Jesuit Residence and a nearby Christian village in the troubled state of Orissa, where believers are still recovering from recent anti-Christian violence, BosNewsLife…
Iran: Ex-Muslims Detained for ‘Apostasy’
Posted on Thursday, July 10, 2008
Iranian authorities have detained two converts to Christianity in the southern city of Shiraz for eight weeks on suspicion of "apostasy," or leaving Islam. In Iran, apostasy is a crime that can be punishable by death.
Indonesia: Church in West Java Bulldozed
Posted on Wednesday, July 9, 2008
Public Order officials on June 26 demolished a church building in Cimahi regency of Bandung district, West Java, to make way for a new shopping mall and bus terminal after church leaders failed to convince authorities that they…
China Detains House Church Missionary And Co-workers
Posted on Tuesday, July 8, 2008
A key member and missionary of an unofficial 'house church' in China's Heilongjiang Province faced difficulties Monday, July 7, to worship with fellow believers after Chinese security forces briefly detained him and two co-workers, representatives said.
