Real-time updates on incidents, legal cases, policy changes, and testimonies from the persecuted Church.
India Christians Injured As Hindu Violence Rocks State
Posted on Tuesday, January 31, 2006
At least 18 Christians, including children, were injured when Hindu militants armed with sticks, rods and other sharp weapons broke up a Christian seminar in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh, the fourth such incident in as many…
Two Churches Attacked in Sri Lanka
Posted on Friday, January 27, 2006
Two churches in Sri Lanka were attacked last weekend as threats from Buddhist monks continued amid tensions between the government and Tamil rebels.
Azerbaijani Soldiers Desecrate Armenian Christian Cemetery
Posted on Thursday, January 26, 2006
The Washington, DC-based human rights group, International Christian Concern (ICC) www.persecution.org, has recently been informed that the government of Azerbaijan has destroyed an irreplaceable medieval Armenian Christian cemetery in the Djulfa region of Nakhichevan.
Christians Attacked, Houses Burned in Orissa, India
Posted on Wednesday, January 25, 2006
A pastor and his cousin charged with attempted forced conversion in Matiapada village, Orissa state, were released on bail yesterday, while five Hindu villagers charged with assault and setting fire to the pastor's house are still in custody.
UK Evangelicals Warn Of Persecution Threats in Britain
Posted on Wednesday, January 25, 2006
The Evangelical Alliance United Kingdom (EAUK), an umbrella group representing one million evangelical Christians in the UK, prepared Tuesday, January 24, a major campaign to "alert" believers to "the dangers of the proposed religious hatred (law) and other…
Indonesian Court Rejects Legal Intervention for Jailed Teachers
Posted on Tuesday, January 24, 2006
Judges at Indonesia's Constitutional Court on January 17 ruled that the Child Protection Act is in line with the constitution and should not be amended. The Rev. Ruyandi Hutasoit had challenged Article 86 of the Act, used as…
India Local Government OK’s ‘Anti-Christian’ Weapons Distribution
Posted on Monday, January 23, 2006
The government of India's largest northwestern state, Rajasthan, has withdrawn criminal procedures against most militants of an influential Hindu nationalist organization involved in the massive distribution of 'tridents', three-sponged spears that have reportedly been used to intimidate the…
Romance Leads to Communal Hatred in Assam, India
Posted on Monday, January 23, 2006
At this time last year, Noor Jehan Ahmed, 55, lived peacefully in the village of Nagaon, in the northeastern state of Assam. She and her extended household of 29 people formed their own Christian enclave within the majority-Muslim…
China Top Lawyers Start Association To Defend Christians
Posted on Saturday, January 21, 2006
Prosecuted Chinese house churches on Saturday, January 21, were expecting more legal support after a group of top Chinese lawyers and legal scholars announced the establishment of an association dedicated to defending Chinese Christians.
Christians in India Attacked at Bus Stand and at House
Posted on Friday, January 20, 2006
Hindu extremists attacked Christians in two incidents in the same district of Andhra Pradesh state on January 12 and 13, in one case dragging a pastor from a child’s birthday party and kicking him unconscious.
Eight House Churches Shut Down in West Java, Indonesia
Posted on Friday, January 20, 2006
Local government officials in Bandung, West Java, have ordered eight house churches in the Rancaekek Kencana housing complex to cease meeting in private homes starting last Sunday (January 15).
Uzbek Television Slanders Protestant Church
Posted on Tuesday, January 17, 2006
A so-called “documentary” televised regionally in Uzbekistan last summer has left entire communities convinced that a Protestant congregation is an “extremist” group worse than fundamentalist Islam.
