Real-time updates on incidents, legal cases, policy changes, and testimonies from the persecuted Church.
China’s Anti-Cult Campaign in Context
Posted on Tuesday, August 6, 2002
In late April, reports filtered out from China that about 100 leaders of the evangelical China Gospel Fellowship -- a major house church grouping that claims some four million members -- had been arrested by the police. Soon…
South China Church Leaders Evade Execution
Posted on Tuesday, August 6, 2002
Leaders of the South China Church have had their sentences reduced by the same court that tried them the first time after a retrial was ordered by the Hubei Province Supreme Court.
Chinese Church Leaders Freed After Being Abducted
Posted on Tuesday, August 6, 2002
Leaders from a mainstream house church in China have been released after being abducted. The 34 senior leaders from the China Gospel Fellowship were abducted on April 16 by a group called Eastern Lightning (EL), which uses violence…
All of the Kidnapped Chinese House Church Leaders Freed
Posted on Tuesday, August 6, 2002
BEIJING, CHINA - All of the 33 leaders from the China Gospel Fellowship who were kidnapped in April by the Eastern Lightning cult have been released, according to Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW) of the UK. News of how…
Saudis Move Christian Prisoners to Deportation Center
Posted on Tuesday, August 6, 2002
LOS ANGELES, January 3 (Compass) -- Saudi Arabian authorities transferred the last five of 14 foreign Christians from their Jeddah prison cell to a deportation center yesterday, according to nine other Christian prisoners already moved there on December…
Two More Arrests In Saudi Arabia
Posted on Tuesday, August 6, 2002
WASHINGTON, DC (ANS) - - Two Filipino Christians were quietly whisked away from their homes near Jeddah early Wednesday morning, April 10, according to the Washington, DC based human rights organization, International Christian Concern (ICC).
Turkmenistan Further Baptist Fines
Posted on Tuesday, August 6, 2002
Six members of a Baptist congregation in the town of Khazar (formerly Cheleken) were fined in mid-January for holding "illegal services", Keston News Service has learned. The instruction to fine them came from the political police, the KNB…
Azerbaijan: “Overzealous” Police Try To Ban Baptist Service
Posted on Tuesday, August 6, 2002
Just two days after a court in the capital Baku liquidated a Baptist congregation, a local policeman in the small town of Chukhuryurd near Shemakha in central Azerbaijan tried to ban a small Baptist church from meeting, Baptist…
Azerbaijan: Police Order Protestant’s Deportation
Posted on Tuesday, August 6, 2002
On the day Baku's Protestant Greater Grace church was celebrating Easter, police in the city's central Sabail district tried to forcibly deport a church member, alleging that she had been conducting religious "propaganda". One of the church's pastors,…
Breaking News: Belarus President Signs Anti Religion Legislation
Posted on Tuesday, August 6, 2002
MINSK, BELARUS (ANS) -- In a move expected to further isolate isolate the former Soviet Republic underground , Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko signed Europe's "most restrictive religious law," Thursday October 31, the Keston News Service (KNS) said.
Belarus: Baptists Fined for Singing Hymns
Posted on Tuesday, August 6, 2002
Three Baptists have been fined for taking part in a street outreach in the town of Lepel in the north-eastern region of Vitebsk and a further six were given official warnings, Keston News Service has learnt in a…
Belarus: Repressive Religion Bill Sneaked Through Parliament
Posted on Tuesday, August 6, 2002
The campaign group For Freedom of Conscience has described as "a bolt from out of the blue" the sudden adoption by parliament yesterday (27 June) of a repressive religion bill that only a day earlier had been postponed…
Al-Qaida Plans to Attack Israel and Israelis Abroad
Posted on Tuesday, August 6, 2002
Jerusalem (ICEJ) -- Israeli and US intelligence officers believe that al-Qaida plans to launch suicide attacks against Israel and against Israelis abroad, based on information on a Web site officials believe speaks for the terrorist organization.
Malawi Council of Churches Write Government
Posted on Monday, August 5, 2002
The Malawi Council of Churches - a mother body of prostestant churches in the country - has issued a statement asking the ruling party United Democratic Front (UDF) and the government at large, to curb acts of violence…
Church Set Ablaze in Zamfara
Posted on Monday, August 5, 2002
A Church building belonging to the Mountain of Fire Ministries in Gusau, capital of Zamfara State, northern Nigeria was set ablaze by suspected Islamic fanatics.
Crackdown on Lao Churches Continues
Posted on Monday, August 5, 2002
The leader of a group of churches in Laos notified Christian Aid today that Lao authorities confiscated the Saybangnoun Church Saturday after Christians refused to surrender the facility to them Saturday noon. The church was located in Songkorn…
