Real-time updates on incidents, legal cases, policy changes, and testimonies from the persecuted Church.
Indonesia: Christians Outraged Over Arrest of Their Leader
Posted on Sunday, September 15, 2002
Christians in Indonesia are outraged over the arrest of one of their leaders, Renaldy Damanik, General Secretary of the Christian Synod in Central Sulawesi and a hard-working, long-time peace advocate.
Pakistan’s Christians Told to ‘Protect Themselves’
Posted on Monday, September 9, 2002
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 extremists.
Yugoslavian Baptists issue call for prayer amidst crisis
Posted on Sunday, September 1, 2002
WASHINGTON (BP) -- Baptists in Yugoslavia have asked for urgent prayers for their country caught in the grip of political crisis as opposition forces try to force President Slobodan Milosevic to step down from office after being narrowly…
Brunei Christians Face Government Intimidation
Posted on Friday, August 23, 2002
LOS ANGELES, July 5 (Compass) -- Officers from Brunei's Internal Security Department (ISD) have questioned indigenous church leaders during the last few months about an organized prayer program authorities are concerned is a threat to the stability of…
Barak Axes Religious Affairs Ministry
Posted on Friday, August 23, 2002
Pushing a key element in its alternate agenda for survival, the shrunken cabinet of Israeli Prime Minister Ehud decided to close the Religious Affairs Ministry by the end of the month. The move is a key plank in…
Barak Axes Religious Affairs Ministry
Posted on Friday, August 23, 2002
Pushing a key element in its alternate agenda for survival, the shrunken cabinet of Israeli Prime Minister Ehud decided to close the Religious Affairs Ministry by the end of the month. The move is a key plank in…
If British approve cloning, impact to be widespread
Posted on Friday, August 23, 2002
WASHINGTON (BP)--Great Britain's apparently impending approval of the cloning of human beings for the purpose of medical research will cause repercussions throughout humanity, a Southern Baptist bioethics specialist predicts.
UN Envoy Rushes To Prevent Execution Afghanistan Aid Workers
Posted on Thursday, August 22, 2002
KABUL/BUDAPEST, (ANS) -- The United Nations special envoy to Afghanistan rushed to the country's Capital Kabul Saturday (August 11), to prevent the execution of 24 aid workers, who have been charged by the Islamic rulers with spreading Christianity.
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
