Real-time updates on incidents, legal cases, policy changes, and testimonies from the persecuted Church.
Nigeria’s Defense Minister Says Muslims Plan to Wipe Out Christianity
Posted on Sunday, June 2, 2002
Katsina State Stops Christian Religious Education by Obed Minchakpu ABUJA, Nigeria (Compass) — Muslim leaders aim to eradicate Christianity in northern Nigeria, says Nigeria’s Defense Minister, Lt. General Theophilus Yakubu Danjuma. Danjuma told a gathering of the Northern…
Two Converts to Christianity Face Death in Nigeria
Posted on Saturday, June 1, 2002
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.
Hungarian Pastor Preaches Amid Death Threats
Posted on Saturday, June 1, 2002
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.
Kidnapped Pastor Freed In Colombia
Posted on Thursday, May 16, 2002
Guerrillas snatched Juan Carlos Villegas on his way back from a baptismal service near Medellin, Colombia, on April 28. A few days later, they sent a demand to Family Christian Church: hand over $25,000 or their assistant pastor…
Pastor Kidnapped Near Medellin
Posted on Thursday, May 16, 2002
Guerrillas manning a roadblock near Medellin kidnapped an associate church pastor as he returned with a group of church members on Sunday, April 28, from an afternoon baptismal service, reported the head of that city's pastoral alliance.
Rebels Force Churches To Close in Colombia
Posted on Wednesday, May 15, 2002
In mid April, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) forced 11 evangelical Protestant churches in Arauquita, a town near Colombia's border with Venezuela, to suspend public worship services.
China’s Anti-Cult Campaign in Context
Posted on Monday, May 13, 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…
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…
