Real-time updates on incidents, legal cases, policy changes, and testimonies from the persecuted Church.
US’s Rice To Visit China Church Amid Reports of Persecution
Posted on Monday, March 21, 2005
United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was to attend a church service for Palm Sunday in Beijing, aides said Saturday, March 19, just hours after a Christian news agency published letters of alleged persecuted Christians.
Letters From China
Posted on Monday, March 21, 2005
Correspondence reveals personal trials, challenges facing house church Christians in China.
Indian Prime Minister Urged To End Anti Christian Violence
Posted on Saturday, March 12, 2005
Indian insurgents who threatened to kill evangelical leaders and "totally destroy" the country's leading mission organization backed down as Christian leaders urged the prime minister to help end anti Christian violence, officials said Saturday March 12.
Iran Christian Colonel Jailed With Known Dissidents, report says
Posted on Saturday, March 12, 2005
An Iranian Colonel who, despite Western protests, was jailed last month for his alleged "illegal" conversion to Christianity is held at Tehran’s notorious maximum-security prison with well-known political and religious dissidents, a Christian news agency reported late Friday,…
Eritrea Jails another 31 Christians
Posted on Thursday, March 10, 2005
Another 31 Eritrean Christians have been jailed by police in towns north of the capital Asmara over the past 10 days. The latest police sweeps brings the total to 187 arrests for “illegal” Christian activities in Eritrea since…
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,…
