Real-time updates on incidents, legal cases, policy changes, and testimonies from the persecuted Church.
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…
Pakistan’s Christians Mourn Last Week’s Massacre
Posted on Monday, August 5, 2002
ISTANBUL, November 5 (Compass) -- Security was at an all-time high yesterday as solemn memorial services were held in every Christian church in Pakistan, mourning the 16 victims massacred by Muslim extremists during a Sunday morning worship service…
Pervez Masih to Appear Before Court (Pakistan)
Posted on Monday, August 5, 2002
Pervez Masih, a Pakistani Christian schoolmaster being accused of blasphemy against Muhammad, is scheduled to appear before the Lahore High Court on Monday, October 8 to appeal for bail. Since his arrest on April 1, 2001, Pervez has…
Red Cross Visits Christian Workers Faced With Execution
Posted on Monday, August 5, 2002
KABUL, AFGHANISTAN (ANS) -- Members of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) have visited in Kabul eight Western and Sixteen Afghan aid workers, who face possible execution for allegedly spreading Christianity in war ravaged Afghanistan. The…
Kazakhistan: Baptist Arrested For Distributing Literature
Posted on Monday, August 5, 2002
A Baptist from the town of Turkestan in Chimkent region of southern Kazakhstan, Tursunbai Auelbekov, was in the town's Kuanysh market distributing free copies of Kazakh-language religious literature from the Evangelical-Christian Baptist Church on 23 January when he…
