Real-time updates on incidents, legal cases, policy changes, and testimonies from the persecuted Church.
China House Church Leader and Family Members “Tortured”
Posted on Friday, October 28, 2005
The leader of six house churches in China's capital Beijing, who was detained by security officers last year, is held at a detention facility where he is forced to carry out hard labor, human rights investigators said Friday,…
Nigerian Pastor Shines in the Shadow of Death
Posted on Thursday, October 27, 2005
The Rev. Murtala Marti Dangora began his Christian life 25 years ago with a baptism of fire. While many people in Nigeria become Christians without difficulties, Rev. Dangora’s decision to convert from Islam brought an instant death sentence…
Egypt Slaps Jail Term on U.S. Citizen
Posted on Thursday, October 27, 2005
A U.S. Christian faces one year in prison after a trial in which he was accused of raping and beating Magda Refaat Gayed at his Cairo shelter for troubled women.
Uzbekistan Christian Villagers Beaten and Expelled From Homes
Posted on Monday, October 24, 2005
Former Muslim residents in a remote village of the ex-Soviet union republic of Uzbekistan are being beaten, publicly humiliated and forced from their homes and jobs for converting to Christianity, a news agency investigation religious persecution said Friday,…
Nigeria Christian Students “Forced” To Convert To Islam
Posted on Thursday, October 20, 2005
Christians in rural areas of Nigeria's tense northern Kano state are afraid to send their children to public schools for fear that they will be forced to convert to Islam, a Christian news agency reported Thursday, October 20.
India Christians Killed, Pastor Detained In Clashes, Missionaries Say
Posted on Thursday, October 20, 2005
Christian missionaries struggled to provide aid to earthquake victims in northern India Wednesday, October 19, after Christians and an education minister were among those killed in ethnic violence which rocked Assam state and Indian controlled Kashmir, Christian aid…
Christian Arrested Under Anti-Conversion Law in India
Posted on Thursday, October 13, 2005
A Christian worker is in jail in Indore, in the north-central state of Madhya Pradesh, after authorities arrested him on October 7 for “converting young children from poor Hindu families to Christianity.”
Turkey Orders Iranian Christians Deported
Posted on Thursday, October 13, 2005
A family of Iranian converts to Christianity faces jail time, the death sentence and the forced marriage of their daughter if Turkish authorities forcibly deport them back to Iran next week after nearly three years of failed attempts…
Eritrea Detains Hundreds of Christians in Crackdown
Posted on Tuesday, October 11, 2005
Over 200 evangelical Christians and members of minority churches have been detained in Eritrea this week in unprecedented coordinated raids by the African nation’s security forces, BosNewsLife learned Thursday, October 6.
Pentecostal Christian Assassinated in Indonesia, New Violence Feared
Posted on Tuesday, October 11, 2005
A member of a Pentecostal church in Indonesia's tense province of Central Sulawesi was assassinated amid fresh concerns over new religious violence in the area where thousands of Christians were killed in recent years, human rights watchers said…
Pentecostal Church Fears Renewed Persecution in Romania
Posted on Tuesday, October 11, 2005
A Pentecostal church in Romania which seeks a spiritual "revival" in the post-Communist nation urged the European Parliament Thursday, October 6, to halt plans by the Romanian government to restrict activities of religious minorities.
