Real-time updates on incidents, legal cases, policy changes, and testimonies from the persecuted Church.
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.
Burma Army Attacks Christian Villages, 1,200 Displaced
Posted on Friday, January 6, 2006
Burmese government forces attacked villages of the Karen and Karenni people, displacing 1,200 villagers, as part of a "slow genocide" against these predominantly Christian ethnic groups, a religious rights group said late Thursday, January 5.
Itinerant House Church Pastor Murdered in Laos
Posted on Friday, January 6, 2006
In a shocking display of brutality, Aroun Voraphorn, an itinerant evangelist, pastor and father of four children, was murdered in southern Laos the week before Christmas.
Eritrea Rounds Up Leaders from Five Churches
Posted on Thursday, January 5, 2006
At least 40 pastors, elders and leading laymen from five of Eritrea’s banned Protestant churches have been arrested from their homes or offices in the past two weeks in the capital of Asmara.
China Court Rejects Appeal House Church Leader
Posted on Thursday, December 22, 2005
A key house church leader in China and relatives were still behind bars Thursday, December 22, after their appeal was rejected, BosNewsLife learned.
Nigerian Pastor Faces Arrest for Harboring Convert from Islam
Posted on Wednesday, December 14, 2005
For Pastor Zacheous Habu Bu Ngwenche, time is running out. In the next two weeks he may find himself back in police detention if he does not produce a convert from Islam abducted from his house by Muslim…
China Detains House Church Leaders
Posted on Wednesday, December 14, 2005
As Christmas approaches, Chinese security forces have reportedly arrested dozens of leaders of the rapidly growing house churches, BosNewsLife learned Tuesday, December 13.
Muslim Clerics Demand Hanging of ‘Quran Desecrater’
Posted on Friday, December 9, 2005
During Friday prayers last week in Pakistan’s Punjab province, Muslim clerics flanked by government officials demanded the public execution of a Christian accused of blasphemy.
India Hindu Militants Attack Churches
Posted on Wednesday, December 7, 2005
Two militant Hindu groups struck churches in India's Chattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh states and forced some believes to bow for Hindu idols states as violence against Christians spread across the country, news reports said Tuesday, December 6.
