Real-time updates on incidents, legal cases, policy changes, and testimonies from the persecuted Church.
Iran: Authorities Arrest Eight Leaders of House Church Movement
Posted on Friday, December 15, 2006
Iranian secret police began to raid and arrest leaders of the Islamic republic’s indigenous “Jesus Only†movement last Sunday (December 10), arriving unannounced in the early morning hours to search their homes in Tehran, Karaj, Rasht and Bandar-i…
Kenya: Christians Fast Over Threat to Radio Station
Posted on Tuesday, December 12, 2006
Christians at Nairobi Pentecostal Church (NPC) began a three-day fast yesterday after a letter written to their bishop warned of an imminent attack on Christian radio station Hope FM. The threat comes seven months after a raid on…
China Province Closes House Church, Christians Jailed
Posted on Tuesday, December 12, 2006
Authorities in China's Anhui province have closed down a house church and force believers to join the government backed Three-Self Church denomination, a religious rights group said Monday, December 11.
Thousands Of Burma Christians Hiding In Jungle Amid Military Crackdown
Posted on Monday, December 11, 2006
Thousands of people belonging to the predominantly Christian Karen as well as Karenni and Shan ethnic groups were hiding in Burma's jungle areas Saturday, December 9, as government forces continued their largest offensive in a decade, killing at…
India: Hindu Extremist Arrested for Assaulting Evangelist
Posted on Monday, December 11, 2006
Police in Honavar, a coastal town in Karnataka state on Tuesday (December 5) arrested Chandrashekar Naik, a member of the Hindu extremist group Bajrang Dal, for assaulting a Christian evangelist. Later that day, Bajrang Dal members seized two…
Iraq: Kidnappers Murder Church Elder in Mosul
Posted on Tuesday, December 5, 2006
Grieving Christians in Iraq’s northern city of Mosul completed three days of mourning for a murdered Presbyterian Church elder yesterday, only hours before another Iraqi clergyman was grabbed off the streets of Baghdad this morning.
Six Christians Murdered By Muslim Mob In Ethiopia
Posted on Thursday, November 30, 2006
The Washington-DC based human rights group, International Christian Concern (ICC) www.persecution.org has learned that in early October, a mob of three hundred Muslims murdered six Christians, and seriously wounded fifteen others during a midnight worship service in Beshasha,…
India: Hindu Villagers Beat, Expel Christian Families
Posted on Thursday, November 30, 2006
Police in the eastern state of Jharkhand have turned a blind eye to the plight of two Christian families who were severely beaten and expelled from their village for refusing to give up their faith.
China Executes 15 Underground Church Members In Secret
Posted on Thursday, November 30, 2006
China has secretly executed 15 members of a controversial underground church after founding them guilty "of murdering members of a rival sect," BosNewsLife learned Thursday, November 30.
Pakistan Christians Jailed For 10 Years For “Blasphemy”
Posted on Tuesday, November 28, 2006
Two Pakistani Christian men spent another day in prison Monday, November 27, after a court jailed them for 10 years on charges of "blasphemy" against the Quran, considered a holy book by Muslims.
Anti-Christian Violence Escalates in Sri Lanka
Posted on Tuesday, November 28, 2006
Anti-Christian violence "is escalating" in Sri Lanka amid ongoing fighting between security forces and Tamil rebels seeking independence, human rights investigators said Monday, November 27.
