Real-time updates on incidents, legal cases, policy changes, and testimonies from the persecuted Church.
Abu Sayyaf Seeks U.S. Negotiation for Missionary Safe Release
Posted on Saturday, September 1, 2001
The Philippines military has theorized that the Muslim extremist group Abu Sayyaf, which is holding American missionary couple Martin and Gracia Burnham of Kansas City, has opened its communication lines with officials of the White House in the…
Christians Fear Growth of Persecution in Mali
Posted on Friday, August 31, 2001
BAMAKO, Mali (Compass) -- For some time, Muslim city authorities in Magnambougou planned for a beautiful new mosque in this new suburb of Bamako, the Malian capital. They acquired land in the middle of the urban dwellings and…
Syrian Agents Rough Up Lebanese Christians
Posted on Wednesday, August 29, 2001
The crackdown on Christians opposed to the Syrian stranglehold over Lebanon continues, as plain-clothes Syrian agents infiltrated a peaceful rally late last week and beat up protesters, cameramen and even local police.
Prayer Urged for India’s Dalits
Posted on Monday, August 27, 2001
Dr. Joseph D'Souza, president of the All India Christian Council, is calling for urgent prayer for India's millions of dalits, since over a million of them are getting ready to change their religion.
Prayer Urged as Conversations and Persecution Increase (India)
Posted on Monday, August 27, 2001
As numbers of lower caste Indians embrace Christ, and in the face of the increasingly violence against Christians in India at the hands of Hindu militants, Dr. Joseph D'Souza, President of the All India Christian Council, is asking…
Christian Aid Responds to Horror in the Moluccas
Posted on Monday, August 27, 2001
(CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va.)-Responding to urgent pleas for help, Christian Aid has joined a campaign to raise $1.2 million to rescue Christians feared targeted for conversion or extermination by Muslim jihad warriors in Indonesia.
Terrorists Target Christians in Ambon
Posted on Monday, August 27, 2001
In a new twist to the violence against Christians in eastern Indonesia's Maluku Islands, Muslim Jihad fighters dressed like Japanese "ninjas" have begun targeting individuals under cover of darkness.
Christians facing ‘elimination’ on Indonesian island of Ambon
Posted on Monday, August 27, 2001
JAKARTA, Indonesia (BP)--Twenty-three Christians were massacred in Indonesia as they fled from their village in late July and early August, The Hindustan Times of India has reported. The report from Indonesia was relayed to U.S. media via Crosswalk.com,…
‘There are NO Christians Left in Ternate’
Posted on Monday, August 27, 2001
MANADO, Indonesia (Compass) -- "There are no Christians left in Ternate," said George Saselah, who had left his farm there to join his wife and newborn daughter in a refugee camp in Manado, on Indonesia's North Sulawesi island.
Massacres Continue in Eastern Indonesia
Posted on Monday, August 27, 2001
LONDON (Compass) -- Maluku's head of police admitted that authorities cannot dislodge the hundreds of Muslim jihad fighters scattered throughout eastern Indonesia's Maluku province and who have escalated the inter-religious conflict as Christmas approaches. More than 100 Christians…
Sulawesi Christians Ask Open Doors to Plead Their Cause
Posted on Monday, August 27, 2001
INDONESIA - (Open Doors, July 9, 2001) - Christian leaders in Tentena, in Indonesia’s central Sulawesi province, pleaded with Open Doors to “be our voice†in the face of increased atrocities being perpetrated against them in Poso district,…
Christians Fear Further Violence in Irian Jaya
Posted on Monday, August 27, 2001
JAYAPURA, Irian Jaya, November 30 (Compass) -- A smouldering civil unrest that has troubled the eastern Indonesian province of Irian Jaya for years threatens once again to harm Christians and others caught in the war between a growing…
Ready for Reconciliation in Indonesia?
Posted on Monday, August 27, 2001
AMBON, Indonesia (Compass) -- "It is disappointing that the suffering of the Christians due to the conflict in the Malukus has been insufficiently exposed in various reports on a national and international level," stated the U.S. Consul General…
Bible school vandalized in India
Posted on Monday, August 27, 2001
Vandals recently broke into the office of a Bible school in India, tied up the schools' cook, and destroyed the office. The vandals seem to have thoroughly planned their attack. The school is housed in two buildings, and…
Rare Blip Appears In Powell Nomination
Posted on Monday, August 27, 2001
In the first spot on an otherwise squeaky clean record, US Secretary of State-designate Colin Powell has run into a flap for recently accepting a large sum of money for delivering a university lecture subsidized by a senior…
Christians in Laos forced to recant their Faith
Posted on Sunday, August 26, 2001
HONG KONG (Compass) -- Christians in Laos continue to suffer persecution from a government crackdown on believers, and they cannot visit friends or travel freely because the secret police follow them every everywhere. Some have been forced to…
