Real-time updates on incidents, legal cases, policy changes, and testimonies from the persecuted Church.
Chinese House Churches Agonize Over Registration
Posted on Monday, January 5, 2004
Registration is still a hot issue for China’s long-suffering house churches. The government insists on registration as the only means of legal existence for Protestant and Catholic churches. In practice, registration means subjection to the Communist Party’s Religious…
Christians in Iran Encounter “Miracle Rescues”
Posted on Sunday, January 4, 2004
BAM, IRAN (ANS) -- Praying Iranian Christians and believers from around the world continued humanitarian efforts in Bam Saturday, January 3, as relief workers reported "miracle rescues" more than eighth days after an earth quake reduced this city…
China Arrests House Church Leader and Writer
Posted on Tuesday, December 30, 2003
The Voice of the Martyrs (VOM) urged prayers for a jailed Christian Internet writer Zhang Shengqi and other Christian contacts who were arrested amid a crackdown against house churches across China,
Churches Demolished at Refugee Camp
Posted on Monday, December 29, 2003
More than 10 Christian churches and a church-run vocational training center in and around the sprawling Wad el Bashier displaced persons camp in West Omdurman, Sudan, have been demolished by authorities in an ongoing urban re-planning exercise affecting…
Christmas Crackdown Commences in Vietnam
Posted on Tuesday, December 23, 2003
It will be yet another difficult Christmas for the tribal Montagnard Christians of Central Vietnam as disturbing allegations have reached ANS that a Montagnard Christian has been killed, others tortured and Bibles confiscated. (Pictured: Center, A Montagnard (Degar)…
Indonesia Orders Tighter Security for Churches this Christmas
Posted on Monday, December 22, 2003
DUBLIN, December 22 (Compass) -- 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…
Baptist Freed in Turkmenistan After Pressure
Posted on Monday, December 22, 2003
The leader of a persecuted Baptist community in Turkmenistan has been freed after six days of detention at the feared secret police headquarters of the former Soviet republic, a human rights watchdog said Monday, Dec. 22
Rearrested Egypt Christians Likely Beaten
Posted on Tuesday, December 16, 2003
A leading human rights group urged believers around the world Wednesday Dec. 17 to pray for the safety of two rearrested former Muslims who recently became Christians and "are likely to be subjected to serious beatings."
Christian Tract Distribution in Vietnam Brings Arrests
Posted on Thursday, December 11, 2003
News of clashes between Christians and public security police over the distribution of Christian tracts has been pouring out of Vietnam since the opening of the 22nd Southeast Asia Games (Seagames 22) on December 5. The house churches,…
Protestant Activist Survives Assassination Attempt in Vietnam
Posted on Wednesday, December 10, 2003
Public Security police in Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon) allegedly attempted to assassinate the Rev. Nguyen Hong Quang at about 9 p.m. on December 9 by staging a motorcycle “accident,” according to the Vietnamese Mennonite Church in Saigon.
Egyptian Tortured Christian Re-United with Family
Posted on Monday, December 8, 2003
A 30-year old Egyptian Muslim convert to Christianity, who made world headlines, has been re-united with her family after nearly two months "of torture while under interrogation," a human rights watchdog said Monday Dec. 8.
Accused Terrorists Given Bail in Pakistan
Posted on Friday, December 5, 2003
After nine months in jail, two suspects accused of last year’s deadly Christmas night attack against a Pakistani village church have been released on bail for the duration of their trial.
Egypt Releases Tortured Christian Woman
Posted on Thursday, December 4, 2003
A 30-year old woman who became a symbol of suffering endured by Muslim converts to Christianity was freed after nearly two months of torture and interrogation, a human rights groups announced Thursday, Dec. 4.
Egyptian Christian Captured at Libyan Border
Posted on Thursday, December 4, 2003
A Coptic Christian secretly married to a woman convert from Islam was arrested for the second time last week while trying to leave Egypt for Canada.
Prominent Hmong Christian Leader Arrested, Extradited
Posted on Wednesday, December 3, 2003
On November 29, Vietnamese authorities extradited Ma Van Bay from Binh Phuoc province in the Central Highlands to his former home in Ha Giang province on the China border. Christians who know the brutality of government authorities in…
Gospel For Asia Pastor Arrested
Posted on Tuesday, December 2, 2003
GFA native missionary Pastor Chandra was recently arrested by Orissa police on charges of baptizing five new believers. Fourteen other missionaries there also face persecution and imprisonment under the Orissa government's anti-conversion legislation, which requires permission from a…
Missionary Shot Dead in India
Posted on Tuesday, December 2, 2003
Yesterday a church celebration in Assam, India, turned deadly as Kukki militants barged in and fired bullets. Five people were shot dead, including a Gospel for Asia native missionary, Samuel. Athough the incident follows on the heels of…
Saudi Authorities Release Egyptian Christians
Posted on Tuesday, December 2, 2003
Two Egyptian Coptic Christians jailed by Saudi authorities have been released 17 days after their arrest for establishing an expatriate house church in the capital of Riyadh.
