Real-time updates on incidents, legal cases, policy changes, and testimonies from the persecuted Church.
Laos: Persecuted Believers Persevere
Posted on Saturday, August 10, 2002
Christians in Laos still suffer from strict oppression of religious activity, according to recent reports, while at least one brother's Christian work is being tolerated.
Hungarian Pastor Preaches Amid Death Threats
Posted on Saturday, August 10, 2002
BUDAPEST, HUNGARY (ANS) -- A Hungarian Reformed Pastor continues to preach the Gospel despite alleged death threats and opposition from Russia and Communists who he says still rule the Hungarian village of Doboz, near the Romanian border.
Protestant Christians Detained in Uzbekistan
Posted on Saturday, August 10, 2002
NUKUS / BUDAPEST, (ANS) -- A correspondent of the Keston News Service (KNS), which covers religious persecution, was harassed by the security service of Karakalpakstan, an autonomous republic in Uzbekistan, KNS reported Thursday, June 6.
Kazakstan Christians Persecuted and Fined
Posted on Saturday, August 10, 2002
ASTANA / BUDAPEST , (ANS) -- Leaders and other believers of non registered Baptist and Evangelical churches in the former Soviet republic of Kazakstan are experiencing a new period of persecution by central authorities, reports said Monday July…
200 Million Christians Suffer Persecution
Posted on Tuesday, August 6, 2002
The World Evangelical Alliance told the U.N. last month that Christians are "the largest single group in the world which is being denied human rights on the basis of their faith."
Christian Agencies Launch Persecuted Religious Minorities Forum
Posted on Tuesday, August 6, 2002
Support for persecuted religious minorities around the world has received new impetus this month following the inauguration of a strategic new network of UK Christian agencies. The Christian Forum in Support of Persecuted Religious Minorities Worldwide was launched…
Sudanese Convert to Christianity Forced into Hiding
Posted on Tuesday, August 6, 2002
ISTANBUL, February 7 (Compass) -- A Sudanese convert to Christianity was forced into hiding this week after severe beatings and torture by state security police, who for the second time refused to allow the former Muslim to leave…
Sudanese Police Torture Convert Student
Posted on Tuesday, August 6, 2002
STANBUL, October 8 (Compass) -- A Sudanese student who converted from Islam to Christianity was severely beaten and tortured by security police in Khartoum two weeks ago, apparently at his own family's instigation.
Sudanese Police Launch Manhunt to Find Christian
Posted on Tuesday, August 6, 2002
ISTANBUL, February 27 (Compass) -- Sudanese security police have mounted a widening manhunt to track down a local convert to Christianity who went into hiding in Khartoum three weeks ago to escape arrest and possible death.
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…
