Real-time updates on incidents, legal cases, policy changes, and testimonies from the persecuted Church.
Turkish Pastor Put On Trial In Diyarbakir
Posted on Tuesday, May 7, 2002
Protestant pastor Ahmet Guvener goes on trial in Turkey's southeastern city of Diyarbakir in late May, accused by the state prosecutor of making illegal changes in the architectural plan of his nearly completed church building.
Yemeni Gets Death Sentence for Killing U.S. Missionaries
Posted on Thursday, May 2, 2002
A Yemeni court sentenced a man to death on Saturday for the murder of three U.S. missionaries last year because he wanted to get closer to God. Abed Abdel Razzak Kamel testified in court that he killed the…
30 Chinese Christian Leaders Abducted
Posted on Monday, April 29, 2002
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.
Christians Secretly Forced to Re-Convert to Hinduism in India
Posted on Sunday, April 28, 2002
The Vishwa Hindu Parishad (World Hindu Organization, VHP) is secretly conducting large-scale conversion drives in India's Marxist-ruled state of West Bengal. More than 16 tribal Christians were forced to re-convert to Hinduism on April 22 at a purification…
Two More Arrests in Saudi Arabia
Posted on Wednesday, April 10, 2002
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).
Azerbaijan: “Overzealous” Police Try To Ban Baptist Service
Posted on Wednesday, April 10, 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…
Palestinian Christians: The Other Side of the Story
Posted on Monday, April 1, 2002
Some time ago I was invited to present a two-day seminar in a church about the Middle East conflict. During the course of those sessions, we used an abundance of scriptures, carefully presented in their context, to clearly…
Azerbaijan: Police Order Protestant’s Deportation
Posted on Monday, April 1, 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,…
