Real-time updates on incidents, legal cases, policy changes, and testimonies from the persecuted Church.
Christian Children Rounded Up in Eritrea, Rights Group says
Posted on Thursday, March 10, 2005
Eritrea's controversial President Isaias Afwerki ended a three day official visit to Pakistan Sunday, February 27, pledging to respect "democratic values" amid pressure at home to release hundreds of Christians, including children.
Muslim Militants in Nigeria Kill 36 in Christian Community
Posted on Thursday, March 10, 2005
Muslim militants attacked the Christian community in Demsa village, Adamawa state, northern Nigeria, on Friday, February 4, killing 36 people, destroying property and displacing about 3,000 others. The surviving Christians have taken refuge in Mayolope village in the…
Egyptian Christian Fights ‘Contrived’ Criminal Charges
Posted on Thursday, March 10, 2005
The criminal trial of Egyptian Christian Shafik Saleh Shafik, begun in mid January, has been ordered postponed until February 20 by the presiding judge, who accepted defense petitions to summon key witnesses and police reports related to the…
Colombian Prison Releases Evangelical Seminary Student
Posted on Friday, January 28, 2005
Luis Alberto Vera was released last month from Bellavista National Jail, a maximum security prison in Medellín, Colombia, in time to spend Christmas with his young family. Vera, however, remains under house arrest at the Biblical Seminary of…
Belarus: Pressure Mounts on Charismatic Minsk Congregation
Posted on Friday, January 28, 2005
Authorities in Minsk are close to obtaining sufficient grounds under Belarusian law to close down the charismatic New Life Church, after issuing it an official warning on 30 December against using a cowshed the church owns for worship.
Fresh Outbreak of Religious Violence in Nigeria’s Plateau State
Posted on Monday, January 17, 2005
Fresh violence broke out in the central Nigerian state of Plateau when Muslim militants attacked the village of Gana-Ropp in the Barakin Ladi local government area, killing Christian community leader Davou Bulle and injuring his wife and son,…
Pakistan Acquits Christian Accused of Blasphemy
Posted on Monday, January 17, 2005
Anwer Masih was acquitted in Lahore last month by a Judicial Magistrate’s Court, making him the first Pakistani Christian ever acquitted of blasphemy in Pakistan’s lower courts.
Paris Church Will Go to Court for Right to Worship
Posted on Wednesday, January 12, 2005
Representatives of the Paris Elim Church will be going to court in order to continue worshipping in their current location. Paris Elim church representatives are going to be in court on Wednesday, January 19 and Friday, January 28,…
Christians Experience Tragedy, Miracles in Disaster
Posted on Friday, January 7, 2005
Stories are coming in to Christian Aid from missionaries in South Asia of how believers have been affected by-and in some cases miraculously spared from-the tsunami tragedy.
Sixty More Evangelical Christians Jailed in Eritrea
Posted on Wednesday, January 5, 2005
Sixty members of the Rema Charismatic Church in the Eritrean capital of Asmara have been arrested and jailed for holding a New Year’s Eve celebration in the home of one of their church leaders.
Gospel for Asia Responds to Deadly Tsunami
Posted on Friday, December 24, 2004
Gospel for Asia workers are rushing food, clothing, medical supplies-and the love of God-to millions of Asians still in deep shock from a disaster spawned by the most powerful earthquake in 40 years.
Indonesia Orders Tighter Security for Churches this Christmas
Posted on Wednesday, December 22, 2004
Police in Indonesia pledged today to provide tighter security for churches during Christmas and New Year celebrations, after one of their own was arrested in connection with the murder of a Christian village chief on the island of…
Nigerian Student Murdered in Clash over Evangelism
Posted on Monday, December 20, 2004
Opposition to Christian evangelism on the campuses of two Nigerian institutions of higher learning has resulted in the murder of Sunday Nache Achi, a fourth-year architectural student at Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University in the northern city of Bauchi.
