Real-time updates on incidents, legal cases, policy changes, and testimonies from the persecuted Church.
Bible School Students Attacked and Beaten
Posted on Wednesday, August 22, 2007
A group of 30 Hindu radicals from the Rastriya Swayem Sevaks (RSS) organization, attacked 18 Bible school students, who were on an evening walk at 5:30 PM on Tuesday, August 21.
India Hindu Militants Threaten To “Burn” Pastor And Family
Posted on Tuesday, August 21, 2007
Hindu militants have threatened to burn to death an Indian evangelical pastor and his family if they don't close their Pentecostal church and leave a suburb of Bangalore, India's third largest city, Christian supporters said Monday, August 20.
Kidnapped German Evangelical Freed In Afghanistan
Posted on Tuesday, August 21, 2007
A German evangelical development worker who was kidnapped at gunpoint from a restaurant in the Afghan capital Kabul has been freed, her organization and Afghan officials confirmed Monday, August 20.
Violence Against Dalit Christians Kills Two In Indian State
Posted on Monday, August 20, 2007
Tensions remained high Sunday, August 19, in India's southern state of Tamil Nadu after a reported crackdown by militants on Dalit Christians in which a pastors' brother and a local official were killed.
Pakistan: Religious Minorities Told to Convert or Die
Posted on Friday, August 17, 2007
Christians and Hindus in northern Pakistan have received dozens of letters threatening them with death if they refuse to become Muslims, church sources and a police official said yesterday.
Egyptian Surgeon ‘Held Hostage’ by Saudi Government Released
Posted on Friday, August 17, 2007
The Washington-DC based human rights group, International Christian Concern (ICC) -- www.persecution.org – has told ANS that it has just learned that an Egyptian Christian surgeon that had been held captive by the Saudi government is on his…
Egypt: Convert in Hiding After Lawyer Backs Out
Posted on Thursday, August 9, 2007
An Egyptian convert to Christianity who filed suit for his conversion to be officially recognized is in hiding after his attorney announced he would withdraw from the case yesterday.
Egypt: Muslim Sues for Right to Convert to Christianity
Posted on Wednesday, August 8, 2007
A Muslim convert to Christianity filed suit against Egypt last week for refusing to legally recognize his change of religion, sparking a reactionary lawsuit by Muslim clerics and death threats against his lawyer.
Turkmenistan Deports Baptist Pastor
Posted on Monday, August 6, 2007
A Russian Baptist Pastor spent another Sunday, August 5, without his family after he was deported from Turkmenistan for his church activities, fellow Christians and human rights watchers said.
Pastor Killed In Philippines Bomb Blast
Posted on Monday, August 6, 2007
Christians in the Philippines on Saturday, August 4, mourned the death of a Protestant pastor who was killed in one of two explosions that ripped through a bus terminal in southern Koronadal City. The blast Friday, August 3,…
Pakistan: Jail Officials Beat Christian, Halt Bible Classes
Posted on Monday, August 6, 2007
Pakistani officials have halted all Bible classes for Christian prisoners in a Punjab jail, isolating the inmate who taught the classes and barring a local pastor from his weekly visits, a non-governmental organization (NGO) working in prisons reported.
India: Christian Worker Beaten to Death in Assam
Posted on Monday, August 6, 2007
A Christian advocacy group has asked the chief minister of the northeastern state of Assam to provide protection to believers after unidentified assailants suspected to be Hindu extremists beat a Christian worker to death in Guwahati.
