Real-time updates on incidents, legal cases, policy changes, and testimonies from the persecuted Church.
Christian areas attacked in Pakistan
Posted on Thursday, June 30, 2005
Sources have told The Voice of the Martyrs that at 10 p.m. on Tuesday, June 28, Christian homes in three areas near Peshawar, Pakistan were attacked by a radical Muslim mob.
Vietnamese Church Leaders Submit Testimony in Washington, D.C.
Posted on Thursday, June 23, 2005
Three Vietnamese house church leaders submitted written testimony to the International Relations Committee of the House of Representatives in Washington, D.C., on Monday, June 20, the first working day of Vietnam Prime Minister Phan Van Khai’s historic visit…
India Authorities To Prosecute Christian Missionaries in Orissa
Posted on Thursday, June 23, 2005
Christian workers in India's tense state of Orissa faced an uncertain future Wednesday, June 22, after the Orissa High Court ordered the local government to ensure the prosecution of missionaries involved in forced conversions of Hindus to Christianity.
Report: Missionaries ‘Cover Turkey Like a Spider’s Web’
Posted on Thursday, June 23, 2005
Intelligence agencies within the Turkish state have concluded in a new report that Christian missionary activities inside the country have a second motive, parallel to their spread of Christian propaganda.
Egyptian Convert Released from Mental Hospital
Posted on Thursday, June 23, 2005
Five months after he was forcibly committed to a mental hospital for converting from Islam to Christianity, Gasir Mohammed Mahmoud has been discharged from his locked psychiatric ward in Cairo and set free.
Saudi Arabia Releases Five Christian Prisoners
Posted on Tuesday, June 21, 2005
Five East Africans arrested and detained for a month for leading a private Christian worship service in Riyadh have been released and allowed to return to their jobs in the Saudi Arabian capital.
Uzbekistan Christian Teacher Jailed After Church Raid
Posted on Monday, June 20, 2005
Christian Nail Kalinkin of Uzbekistan's embattled Baptist leaning Bethany Church in the capital Tashkent was believed to be in jail Saturday, June 18, after he was sentenced to 15 days in prison last week for "illegally" teaching his…
Christian Lecturer in Nigeria Disappears After Death Threat
Posted on Wednesday, June 15, 2005
Andrew Akume, a Christian lecturer at Ahmadu Bello University (ABU) in Zaria city, Kaduna state, northern Nigeria, has disappeared since the issuance of a death sentence against him. A militant Muslim group at ABU passed the sentence on…
Persecution Memo Sent to Nigeria’s Reform Conference
Posted on Wednesday, June 15, 2005
Christian leaders in northern Nigeria submitted a memorandum to the nation’s National Political Reform Conference on Thursday, June 9, cataloguing cases of persecution and discrimination against Christians.
India Deports US Missionaries After Hindu Attacks
Posted on Wednesday, June 15, 2005
Three American missionaries who were reportedly beaten by "Hindu fundamentalists" in Mumbai for preaching the Gospel there, will be deported by India because they "violated" the terms of their tourist visa's, police said Tuesday, June 14.
Christian Students File Suit Against Nigerian University
Posted on Wednesday, June 8, 2005
Three students expelled for sharing the gospel in November last year say their fundamental rights as Christians were violated by the authorities of the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University (ATBU) in the town of Bauchi in northern Nigeria.
Turkish Conference ‘Researches’ Missionary Activity
Posted on Wednesday, June 8, 2005
In step with months of intense media focus on missionary activities in Turkey, the government’s Religious Affairs Directorate coordinated a symposium this spring in conjunction with a local university to present academic research on the controversial topic.
