Real-time updates on incidents, legal cases, policy changes, and testimonies from the persecuted Church.
Philippines’ Seminarian Stabbed To Death
Posted on Monday, June 11, 2007
A tense calm returned Saturday, June 9, to the Galas district of the Philippines' Quezon City after a seminarian was stabbed to death there by a lone assailant, police said.
India: Extremists Step Up Efforts for ‘Hindu Nation’
Posted on Thursday, June 7, 2007
Televised attacks on Christian workers and a spurt in persecution in various parts of the country point to a renewed attempt to win support for Hindu nationalistic goals, Christians say.
Iraqi Christians Mourn Deaths Of Priest And Other Believers
Posted on Wednesday, June 6, 2007
Iraqi Christians are mourning the deaths of a Catholic priest and his three assistants who were gunned down by Islamic militants over the weekend, shortly after another Christian couple working for the US embassy was reportedly killed, BosNewsLife…
Extremists Disrupt Christian Meeting in Mumbai Slum
Posted on Friday, June 1, 2007
Marching to the front of an evangelistic service, about 50 religious extremists--most of them women--forcefully attempted to disrupt the meeting. The extremists snatched the microphone from the speaker’s hands and began shouting anti-Christian remarks through the sound system.
Mexico: Christians in Chiapas Town Deprived of Water
Posted on Thursday, May 31, 2007
More than five weeks after town bosses in Chiapas state, Mexico, signed an agreement to restore water lines cut off from Christians since January, the Protestants still rely on dirty, distant wells and puddles for washing and drinking.
India Police Detain 4,000 Christians
Posted on Thursday, May 31, 2007
Indian police detained at least 4,000 Christians from across the country in the largest such operation in a decade, a major human rights group and Indian Christian leaders said Wednesday, May 30.
Malaysia’s Christian Joy Loses Islam Conversion Case
Posted on Wednesday, May 30, 2007
Malaysia's best known Christian convert, Lina Joy, on Wednesday, May 30, lost her six-year battle to be recognized as a Christian in a landmark case that tested the limits of religious freedom in this mainly Muslim nation.
Cuban Influential Christian Prisoner Suffering Of Tuberculosis
Posted on Tuesday, May 29, 2007
An influential Christian Cuban "prisoner of conscience" remained behind bars Pentecost Sunday, May 27, despite suffering of tuberculosis in the Kilo 7 Prison in the province of Camaguey, dissidents told BosNewsLife.
Pastor attacked in Karnataka, India
Posted on Tuesday, May 29, 2007
Anti-Christian activists from two Hindu radical groups -- Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and Bajrang Dal -- attacked a Pastor and an elder of a church in Bangarpet in Kolar district of Karnataka on May 21 2007 for distributing…
Pentecostal believers raided on Pentecost Sunday in Belarus church
Posted on Tuesday, May 29, 2007
Ten state officials raided the Pentecost service of John the Baptist Pentecostal Church in Minsk, the capital of Belarus, yesterday (May 27). Pastor Antoni Bokun was arrested, held overnight at a police station and fined 20 times the…
