Real-time updates on incidents, legal cases, policy changes, and testimonies from the persecuted Church.
Georgia’s Pentecostals Threatened With Death
Posted on Monday, June 16, 2003
Pentecostal Christians in the ex-Soviet republic of Georgia are not allowed to gather for worship amid death threats, while a Baptist church was set on fire amid a government backed crack down against religious minorities, reports suggested Monday…
Secretive Survey Alarms Christians in Gujarat, India
Posted on Sunday, June 15, 2003
The government of India’s Gujarat state has again started gathering community-based information in villages of the Patan district in northern Gujarat, heightening suspicions among local Christians that census information will be misused by fundamentalist Hindu organizations to stir…
Saudi Arabia Deports Ethiopian Christian
Posted on Monday, June 2, 2003
Two and one-half weeks after an Ethiopian Christian was deported from Saudi Arabia for alleged “Christian activities,” a fellow Christian prisoner of Eritrean citizenship remains jailed in Jeddah.
Sudanese Priest Released in Khartoum
Posted on Friday, May 30, 2003
Six weeks after a Sudanese court jailed an Episcopal priest for refusing to tear down his own church, the Rev. Samuel Dobai Amum has been set free, with the legal process set in motion for his Khartoum North…
Brazilian Evangelicals Tried for ‘Hate Crime’ Violation
Posted on Monday, May 19, 2003
A heated debate over freedom of religion in Brazil has gone to court. Legal representatives of Umbanda and Candomble spiritist groups are pressing a lawsuit against Baptist pastor Joaquim de Andrade, 41, and Aldo dos Santos Menezes, 33,…
Four Christians Murdered in Colombia
Posted on Monday, May 19, 2003
Twenty-five armed men entered a rural church in northern Colombia Tuesday night, May 6, and murdered its 80-year-old evangelical pastor and three other believers, confirmed the head of the nations evangelical alliance.
Eritrean Protestants Arrested at Prayer Meeting
Posted on Thursday, May 8, 2003
Asmara Police Jail, Punish 56 Prisoners Special to Compass Direct LOS ANGELES, May 8 (Compass) — Eritrean security police arrested two full-time evangelists and another 54 members of the Rema Church last night in Asmara, hauling them off…
Vietnam’s War Against Christianity
Posted on Wednesday, May 7, 2003
Communist regimes like Vietnam have never been known for their tolerance of religion but recently in 2003 Hanoi has escalated the persecution of its “hill tribe” Christians to an unprecedented level. In the Central Highlands of Vietnam the…
Jordanian Christian Killed in Lebanon Attack
Posted on Wednesday, May 7, 2003
An Arab convert to Christianity was killed in a bomb blast last night outside his Tripoli apartment, adjacent to the home of a European missionary family thought to have been targeted in the attack.
Pastor and Six Family Members Burned to Death in Nigeria
Posted on Tuesday, May 6, 2003
A zealous Christian preacher in the northern Nigeria city of Kano and six members of his family died in a house fire on April 22. Christian leaders in the city believe Muslim militants deliberately set the fatal blaze.
Vietnamese Christians Suffer Greatly
Posted on Friday, April 18, 2003
Vietnamese authorities continue their clampdown on house churches in their country. A Vietnam observer who wishes to remain anonymous names 12 ways authorities are persecuting Christians:
The Muslim World On “The Fall of Baghdad”
Posted on Friday, April 11, 2003
THE PALESTINIANS: "Whether consciously or unconsciously, the Americans are paving a long, broad path for the death of tens of thousands, maybe even more, of their people. The American madness will bring nothing but counter-madness. They [Americans] have…
Lao Christian Leaders Arrested
Posted on Thursday, April 10, 2003
Lao Christians are paying dearly for their faith as authorities continue to crack down on the Christian movement. Lao authorities closed four churches recently and arrested several of their leaders.
Eritrea Jails 170 Protestant Christians
Posted on Wednesday, April 9, 2003
A total of 170 Protestant Christians have been jailed, beaten and threatened with death by Eritrean security forces in a harsh crackdown during February and March.
