Real-time updates on incidents, legal cases, policy changes, and testimonies from the persecuted Church.
Assam Pastor Beaten
Posted on Monday, March 26, 2007
A Gospel for Asia missionary working in Assam, India, was badly beaten on March 21 during what appears to be a robbery attempt. GFA missionary Bansi Samoun, along with staff members from a GFA Bridge of Hope center…
Uzbekistan Pastor Appeals Against Labor Camp Sentence
Posted on Monday, March 26, 2007
Protestant pastor Dmitry Shestakov has appealed against the four-year sentence to one of Uzbekistan's open labor camps which was imposed by authorities in retaliation for his Christian work, investigators and local Christians close to the case said Friday,…
Indonesia Militants Imprisoned For Beheading Christian Girls
Posted on Friday, March 23, 2007
An Islamic militant began serving a 20-year jail sentence Thursday, March 22, on charges of plotting the 2005 beheadings of three Christian girls on Indonesia's volatile Sulawesi island. Two other militants involved in the crime were sentenced to…
Nigeria: Sokoto State Stifles Growth of Church Buildings
Posted on Wednesday, March 21, 2007
The Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), one of the largest Pentecostal churches in Nigeria, is also one of the fastest growing churches in Africa. It is a cradle of miraculous healing, signs and wonders, but there is…
China Releases House Church Leader; Mother Remains Detained
Posted on Monday, March 19, 2007
A senior house church leader was free Saturday, March 17, after being released following ten days administrative detention, but the 77-year old mother of a Christian activist remained behind bars, representatives said.
Indian Hindu Militants Burn Down Church, Attack Pastors
Posted on Thursday, March 15, 2007
Christians in India's southern state of Andhra Pradesh on Wednesday, March 14, were preparing to rebuild their church, hours after it was burnt down by Hindu militants, while elsewhere in the country several Christian leaders were recovering from…
Zimbabwe police crush prayer and protest rally
Posted on Wednesday, March 14, 2007
One person was killed, a number injured and over 35 arrested in Harare on Sunday, March 11, after hundreds of armed riot police used shotguns and teargas to shut down a prayer meeting about the deteriorating situation in…
Four Christians Missing In Sri Lanka As Fighting Intensifies
Posted on Wednesday, March 14, 2007
There was mounting concern Tuesday, March 13, about the whereabouts of an evangelical Sri Lankan pastor, his two sons, and another Christian young man who disappeared this month amid intense fighting between Sri Lanka's government forces and the…
India: Pastor Tied, Beaten with Wooden Clubs
Posted on Wednesday, March 14, 2007
Police officers and members of a Hindu extremist group in Andhra Pradesh on Sunday (March 11) lured a pastor into a remote forest, where the extremists tied his hands and feet and beat him with wooden clubs as…
India: Dubious ‘Reconversion’ Movement Expands
Posted on Tuesday, March 13, 2007
Hindu extremists have extended to the northern state of Himachal Pradesh a movement to bring Christian converts back to the Hindu fold through dubious “reconversion†events.
Vietnam Launches “Worst Crackdown” In Dissidents “In 20 Years”
Posted on Monday, March 12, 2007
A major human rights watchdog accused the Vietnamese government on Friday, March 9 of "flouting" its commitments on human rights by launching "one of the worst crackdowns on peaceful dissidents," including Christians, "in 20 years."
