Real-time updates on incidents, legal cases, policy changes, and testimonies from the persecuted Church.
Eritrean government demands shutdown of evangelical churches
Posted on Wednesday, August 21, 2002
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP)--In what many consider to be a crackdown on the growing evangelical movement among Eritrean Christians, the Eritrean government has ordered the close of all churches not belonging to the Orthodox Christian, Roman Catholic and Evangelical…
Myanmar Closes Christian Orphanages
Posted on Tuesday, August 13, 2002
Christian ministries in Myanmar (formerly Burma) are dazed after being told to close their orphanages and other child-care and feeding programs for the poor.
Persecution summit focuses on ‘absolutely genocidal’ regimes
Posted on Sunday, August 11, 2002
WASHINGTON (BP)--The considerable influence of American Christians can make a difference in the lives of persecuted believers in North Korea and Sudan, participants at a May 1 summit on the issue were told.
Protests of Christian persecution gaining traction in U.S.
Posted on Sunday, August 11, 2002
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP)--The revelation by North Korea that it had engaged in a clandestine operation to develop nuclear weapons, contrary to promises made to the Clinton administration in 1994, thrust the Asian nation again into the news. However,…
Muslim Mob Storms Church; Forces Closure
Posted on Sunday, August 11, 2002
DAKAR, SENEGAL (ANS) -- A local Muslim politician at the head of a mob of young men stormed a church in Dakar on Sunday 23 May, insulting and assaulting Christian worshippers. The youths, armed with knives and stones,…
Christians Attacked and Killed by Islamic Fanatics in Nigeria
Posted on Sunday, August 11, 2002
Christians in the Plateau State of central Nigeria have been killed and forced from their land by extremist Islamic militants. Attacks have been mounted against Christians in the area surrounding Jos, leaving several dead and many more wounded…
Nigeria’s Defense Minister Says Muslims Plan to Wipe Out Christianity
Posted on Sunday, August 11, 2002
ABUJA, Nigeria (Compass) -- Muslim leaders aim to eradicate Christianity in northern Nigeria, says Nigeria's Defense Minister, Lt. General Theophilus Yakubu Danjuma. Danjuma told a gathering of the Northern (Nigeria) Christian Elders Forum (NOSCEF) on April 20 in…
Sudan Amputates Chrstian’s Hand for Theft
Posted on Sunday, August 11, 2002
ISTANBUL, March 6 (Compass) -- The government of Sudan amputated a Southern Sudanese Christian's right hand for alleged theft in late January, furthering evidence that the Islamist regime has begun enacting harsh Muslim punishments against both Christian and…
Sudanese Christians Attacked by the “Lord’s Resistance Army”
Posted on Sunday, August 11, 2002
Adjumani, Uganda - Sudanese Christian refugees living in the Maagi Refugee Camp in the Adjumani Resettlement area of Northern Uganda were attacked by 1200 members of the "Lord's Resistance Army" on Wednesday, July 17th
Church Waits for Demands from Colombian Guerrillas
Posted on Sunday, August 11, 2002
AUSTIN, Texas (Compass) -- Guerrillas manning a roadblock near Medellin kidnapped an associate church pastor as he returned with a group of church members on Sunday, April 28, from an afternoon baptismal service, reported the head of that…
Rebels Force Churches To Close in Colombia
Posted on Sunday, August 11, 2002
COCHABAMBA, Bolivia, May 15 (Compass) -- In mid April, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) forced 11 evangelical Protestant churches in Arauquita, a town near Colombia's border with Venezuela, to suspend public worship services.
Myanmar Closes Christian Orphanages
Posted on Sunday, August 11, 2002
Christian ministries in Myanmar (formerly Burma) are dazed after being told to close their orphanages and other child-care and feeding programs for the poor.
Urgent Appeal to Halt Execution of North Korean Christians
Posted on Sunday, August 11, 2002
YUNNAN PROVINCE, PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA (ANS) -- Christian Solidarity Worldwide is raising urgent concern for a group of North Koreans who are in the process of being sent back to North Korea, where they are in danger…
Pakistan’s Christians Told to ‘Protect Themselves’
Posted on Sunday, August 11, 2002
ISTANBUL, September 9 (Compass) -- In the wake of two more deadly terrorist attacks against Christian institutions in Pakistan in early August, government security officials have advised local church leaders to arm themselves for possible assaults by Muslim…
Pakistan Sentences Another Christian to Death
Posted on Sunday, August 11, 2002
ISTANBUL, July 1 (Compass) -- Another Christian was sentenced to death in Pakistan two days ago, joining Ayub Masih in the line-up of Pakistani Christians on death row for alleged blasphemy against Islam.
Christians Secretly Forced to Re-Convert to Hinduism in India
Posted on Sunday, August 11, 2002
BANGALORE, India (Compass) -- The Vishwa Hindu Parishad (World Hindu Organization, VHP) is secretly conducting large-scale conversion drives in India's Marxist-ruled state of West Bengal. More than 16 tribal Christians were forced to re-convert to Hinduism on April…
Mob Destroys Church in South Sulawesi, Indonesia
Posted on Sunday, August 11, 2002
SOUTH SULAWESI, INDONESIA (ANS) -- A mob has destroyed a church in the predominantly Muslim city of Makassar in South Sulawesi, according to a report from The Barnabas Fund.
