Real-time updates on incidents, legal cases, policy changes, and testimonies from the persecuted Church.
Turkey: Young Muslims Murder Three Christians
Posted on Friday, April 20, 2007
In a gruesome assault against Turkey’s tiny Christian community, five young Muslim Turks entered a Christian publishing office in the southeastern province of Malatya yesterday (April 18) and slit the throats of the three Protestant Christians present.
Vietnam: Christian Lawyers Could Get Harsh Sentences
Posted on Thursday, April 19, 2007
Following the March 29 sentencing of Father Nguyen Van Ly to eight years in prison for distributing “material harmful to the state,†two Protestant lawyers charged with the same “crime†are expected to face equally harsh sentences in…
Iraq: Baghdad Christians Flee Forced Conversion
Posted on Thursday, April 19, 2007
Iraqi Christians fled their homes over the weekend after armed Sunni extremists threatened to kill them if they did not convert to Islam within 24 hours, Christian sources said.
Mexico: New Believer Jailed for Receiving Christ
Posted on Tuesday, April 17, 2007
Juan Mendez Mendez became a Christian in a village outside of this city in Chiapas state on April 7, and two days later local authorities put him in jail -- for leaving their religious blend of Roman Catholicism…
Five Christians Charged with Blasphemy in Pakistan
Posted on Thursday, April 12, 2007
Five Christians, including a 16-year-old boy, have been falsely accused of and charged with "blasphemy" against Muhammad on April 1 in Toba Tek Singh, Punjab, according to an April 6 report from Compass Direct.
Christian Tourists Detained for Praising Christ
Posted on Monday, April 9, 2007
Global council of Indian Christians(GCIC) takes serious exceptions in the illegal detention of tourists by the Hyderabad police on the dictates of radical Hindus. The radicals have ganged up against the tourists as they came to know that…
Pakistan: Christian Prisoners Win Back Jail ‘Church’
Posted on Monday, April 2, 2007
More than 160 Christian prisoners ended a two-day hunger strike last week after authorities in Pakistan’s Punjab province permitted them to resume religious services, a non-governmental organization worker said.
Nigeria: Muslim Extremists Set Church on Fire
Posted on Friday, March 30, 2007
Two days after the killing of a Christian teacher in this town in northern Nigeria, Muslim extremists set fire to a church building of the Evangelical Church of West Africa (ECWA) in the Chanchanya section.
Ethiopia Muslim Militants Kill Evangelist; More Violence Feared
Posted on Thursday, March 29, 2007
An Ethiopian evangelist was beaten to death by militant Muslims as he and two young women were evangelizing in the Ethiopian city of of Jimma, and there were fears the incident could spark widespread violence against Christian believers,…
Nigeria: Muslims Club Christian Teacher to Death
Posted on Wednesday, March 28, 2007
Christianah Oluwatoyin Oluwasesin, a teacher at Government Secondary School of Gandu in this northern Nigerian town, was in high spirits last Wednesday (March 21) as she made her way to school where she teaches government.
Pakistani Christian man booked under blasphemy law
Posted on Wednesday, March 28, 2007
Pakistani Christians continue to bear the brunt of the country’s blasphemy laws as yet another Christian man has been booked for allegedly tearing and setting ablaze the pages of the Quran, the Muslim holy book.
Two Pastors arrested in Rajasthan
Posted on Tuesday, March 27, 2007
Police arrested Pastor Philip Abraham from Noida and Pastor Jacob Kunjumon from Mumbai in Ganga Nagar, Rajasthan on March 23, 2007 with the charges of alleged force conversion and insulting Hindu gods.
Pastor Shot Dead While Praying in Trinidad
Posted on Monday, March 26, 2007
A 34-year-old pastor was shot dead while he was praying with others in his church on Wednesday, March 21 at the St. Mary's Village of Gomaz Trace in Moruga, the southern sea town in Trinidad.
