Real-time updates on incidents, legal cases, policy changes, and testimonies from the persecuted Church.
The Taliban’s 2001 Calendar of Religious Intolerance
Posted on Friday, October 3, 2003
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Taliban leader Mohammed Omar declares on Radio Shariat that any Afghan caught professing Christianity or Judaism would be executed, and that any non-Muslim found "trying to win converts" would also be killed.
Three more Christians arrested in China
Posted on Thursday, October 2, 2003
Mr. Xiao Bi-guang and Mr. Zhang Yi-nan were arrested last Friday morning in Ping Ding Shan city, Henan Province, China. Sources in China reported that more than 20 Public Security Bureau (PSB) officers made the arrest. The location…
More Evangelicals Arrested in Eritrea
Posted on Saturday, September 27, 2003
Police in the Eritrean capital of Asmara continued the country-wide crackdown against independent Protestant congregations this month, arresting another 12 evangelicals on September 7 while they were meeting in a private house for prayer and worship.
Christian held by Egyptian police
Posted on Friday, September 26, 2003
Egyptian Christian Bolis Rezek-Allah was pulled off an international flight this afternoon in Cairo, Egypt, and is being held by Egyptian secret police. Rezek-Allah, who had been granted an immigrant visa to Canada, was on the plane to…
Staines Killers found Guilty
Posted on Monday, September 15, 2003
More than four years after the tragic murder of Australian missionary Graham Staines and his two sons, prime suspect Dara Singh and 12 others were convicted of the killings today by the district and sessions judge of Orissa…
Azerbaijan Sunday School Raided by Police
Posted on Friday, September 5, 2003
Protestant Christians in Azerbaijan are fearing for the future of their children after police raided a Sunday school using old Soviet style "KGB methods", reports said Thursday September 4.
Turkmenistan Baptists Banned from Services
Posted on Monday, September 1, 2003
Baptists and other Protestant groups in two of the most oppressive republics of the former Soviet Union faced fines and possible liquidation Monday, September 1, unless they stop church meetings, reports said.
Christians in Nepal Suffer Attacks, Arrests
Posted on Saturday, August 30, 2003
Christians belonging to a small house church in northern Nepal were attacked by Buddhist and Hindu villagers on July 26, resulting in hospitalization for at least one church member. The mob attacked and destroyed houses and cornfields belonging…
Muslim Militants Attack Three Christian Villages in Northern Nigeria
Posted on Wednesday, August 27, 2003
Over 100 well-armed Muslim militants swarmed into three Christian villages in northern Nigeria on Monday, August 25. Seven people were reportedly killed, 30 homes burned and 140 families displaced when the attackers invaded the villages about 8 p.m.,…
Eritrean Commanders Intensify Harsh Measures
Posted on Wednesday, August 27, 2003
Fifty-seven teenage Eritrean Christians jailed last week under severe punishment for having Bibles at their military training camp remain locked in metal shipping containers, inside sources confirmed today.
