Real-time updates on incidents, legal cases, policy changes, and testimonies from the persecuted Church.
Sudanese Refugees – Grace Under Fire
Posted on Tuesday, August 6, 2002
KAMPALA, UGANDA (ANS) -- You can find them by following the sounds of the singing. The familiar tune of "What A Friend We Have In Jesus" carries over the crying of children, the honking of the horns, and…
Two Converts to Christianity Face Death in Nigeria
Posted on Tuesday, August 6, 2002
MADA, Nigeria (Compass) -- Two Nigerian Muslims who converted to the Christian faith in Mada village of northern Nigeria's Zamfara state are missing, possibly at the hands of Muslim fundamentalists seeking to kill them for changing their faith.
No Positive Change For Vietnam’s Protestants
Posted on Tuesday, August 6, 2002
HO CHI MINH CITY (Compass) -- In April, 26 years after the communist takeover of Vietnam, authorities granted legal status to Protestants of the southern Evangelical Church of Vietnam (ECVN). Optimists felt this might signal a change in…
Activist Christian Pastor Arrested in Vietnam
Posted on Tuesday, August 6, 2002
HO CHI MINH CITY, August 21 (Compass) -- A pastor and lawyer who has been regularly harassed for exposing religious liberty abuses in Vietnam was arrested on August 17 along with his wife and another man in the…
American Missionaries Turn One Year in Captivity
Posted on Tuesday, August 6, 2002
ZAMBOANGA CITY, PHILIPPINES (ANS) -- The American missionary couple Martin and Gracia Burnham turns one year old today under the captive of the Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG), a terrorist group operating in the Southern Philippines and believed to…
Ayub Masish Flees Pakistan
Posted on Tuesday, August 6, 2002
SANTA ANA, CA (ANS) -- Christian prisoner Ayub Masih fled his native Pakistan and arrived in an undisclosed country in the West on Wednesday after being imprisoned for six years on blasphemy charges. Despite being acquitted and released…
They Sang in their Cells in Bangladesh Despite Persecution
Posted on Tuesday, August 6, 2002
Three Gospel for Asia Bible school students in Bangladesh were sharing Christ in the village of Vasu during a six-month ministry assignment. Muslim extremists, angry to see a Gospel witness in their village, went to the police with…
Christian Massacre Survivor Set Free in Karachi
Posted on Tuesday, August 6, 2002
ISTANBUL, October 24 (Compass) — Forty-eight hours after Karachi police abducted Robin Peranditta from the grounds of the Sindh High Court, the traumatized survivor of last month’s deadly Christian massacre is now confirmed to be released from police…
30 Chinese Christian Leaders Abducted
Posted on Tuesday, August 6, 2002
CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA -- An uncertain number of leaders of a major house church movement in China have disappeared in what at first was thought to be a massive government raid. Now cult activity is suspected.
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…
