Real-time updates on incidents, legal cases, policy changes, and testimonies from the persecuted Church.
Coptic Church Attacked In Southern Egypt
Posted on Saturday, August 3, 2002
ISTANBUL, February 11 (Compass) -- Coptic Orthodox Christians who gathered yesterday to celebrate their first Sunday Mass in a small village church were attacked with rocks and firebombs by a Muslim mob near El-Minya, 140 miles south of…
Danforth appointment marks positive step on Sudan
Posted on Saturday, August 3, 2002
The appointment of former Senator John Danforth as special envoy to Sudan could result in positive action, according to The Voice of the Martyrs, a ministry organization focussed on serving the persecuted church.
Trial Detained Aid Workers On Hold in Afghanistan
Posted on Saturday, August 3, 2002
KABUL, AFGHANISTAN (ANS) -- The German based Charity Shelter Now has warned the trial of its eight detained foreign Christian staff members in Afghanistan seems to have been put on hold. "No progress is being made," the evangelical…
China’s Persecution Dynamics
Posted on Saturday, August 3, 2002
A crucial paradox lies at the heart of China's persecution dynamics. Over the past 30 years, conditions have improved for Christians in China. But during the past five years, they have deteriorated markedly.
Chinese House Church Leader Granted Time to Appeal Death Sentence
Posted on Saturday, August 3, 2002
LONDON, January 7 (Compass) -- The forty-six-year-old founder of the "South China" house church movement, Gong Shengliang, was granted a reprieve from his death sentence, which was due to be carried out on Saturday, January 5. Gong was…
Sudanese Christians Attacked by the “Lord’s Resistance Army”
Posted on Friday, August 2, 2002
Sudanese Christian refugees living in the Maagi Refugee Camp in the Adjumani Resettlement area of Northern Uganda were attacked by 1200 members of the "Lord's Resistance Army" on Wednesday, July 17th. Five refugees were killed and 200 were…
South China Church Leaders Evade Execution
Posted on Wednesday, July 31, 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.
Former Taliban Captives Tell How They Survived Imprisonment
Posted on Sunday, July 14, 2002
Former Taliban prisoners Heather Mercer and Dayna Curry told more than 1,800 attendees at the 42nd annual Minnesota Prayer Breakfast how they coped with their three-month incarceration in an Afghan jail.
Papuan Christians Fear Onslaught in Indonesia
Posted on Tuesday, July 2, 2002
Christians in the Indonesian province of Papua (Irian Jaya) are fearful that a violent campaign could be unleashed against them later this year as Laskar Jihad Islamic militants continue to flood into the province with the apparent collusion…
Christians Fear Imposition of Islamic Law In Malaysia
Posted on Monday, July 1, 2002
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Moderate Muslims, women's groups, Christians and other non-Muslim minorities have all reacted with horror to plans by Muslim opposition party PAS to impose full Islamic Shari'ah law in Malaysia's Terengganu State.
Rescued Missionary Worker Arrives Home
Posted on Thursday, June 20, 2002
The injured but rescued US missionary worker Gracia Burnham, who lost her husband but not her faith in Christ, hugged their three children Monday in Kansas City Monday June 10, after a year-long hostage drama in the jungle…
Blaspemy ‘Convict’ Shot Dead in Pakistani Jail
Posted on Friday, June 14, 2002
A Pakistani Muslim convicted of alleged religious blasphemy was shot dead by a fellow prisoner yesterday afternoon in Lahore's Kot Lakhpat Central Jail.
Belarus: Baptists Fined for Singing Hymns
Posted on Wednesday, June 12, 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…
Jordanian Widow Promised Solution for Her Children
Posted on Tuesday, June 11, 2002
A Jordanian Christian widow threatened with loss of the legal guardianship of her two children was assured in late May by representatives of her government that the children will not be removed from her custody.
Pakistani Defense Lawyers Threatened
Posted on Monday, June 10, 2002
Two lawyers known for defending Pakistani Christians and Muslims over alleged blasphemy charges received death threats over the weekend, part of a series of overt warnings dished out to perceived "enemies of Islam" by local extremists during the…
American Missionaries Turn One Year in Captivity
Posted on Monday, June 10, 2002
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 have links to the Al…
