Real-time updates on incidents, legal cases, policy changes, and testimonies from the persecuted Church.
Barak Axes Religious Affairs Ministry
Posted on Friday, August 23, 2002
Pushing a key element in its alternate agenda for survival, the shrunken cabinet of Israeli Prime Minister Ehud decided to close the Religious Affairs Ministry by the end of the month. The move is a key plank in…
UN Envoy Rushes To Prevent Execution Afghanistan Aid Workers
Posted on Thursday, August 22, 2002
KABUL/BUDAPEST, (ANS) -- The United Nations special envoy to Afghanistan rushed to the country's Capital Kabul Saturday (August 11), to prevent the execution of 24 aid workers, who have been charged by the Islamic rulers with spreading Christianity.
Eritrean government demands shutdown of evangelical churches
Posted on Wednesday, August 21, 2002
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP)--In what many consider to be a crackdown on the growing evangelical movement among Eritrean Christians, the Eritrean government has ordered the close of all churches not belonging to the Orthodox Christian, Roman Catholic and Evangelical…
Myanmar Closes Christian Orphanages
Posted on Tuesday, August 13, 2002
Christian ministries in Myanmar (formerly Burma) are dazed after being told to close their orphanages and other child-care and feeding programs for the poor.
Myanmar Closes Christian Orphanages
Posted on Sunday, August 11, 2002
Christian ministries in Myanmar (formerly Burma) are dazed after being told to close their orphanages and other child-care and feeding programs for the poor.
Urgent Appeal to Halt Execution of North Korean Christians
Posted on Sunday, August 11, 2002
YUNNAN PROVINCE, PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA (ANS) -- Christian Solidarity Worldwide is raising urgent concern for a group of North Koreans who are in the process of being sent back to North Korea, where they are in danger…
Persecution summit focuses on ‘absolutely genocidal’ regimes
Posted on Sunday, August 11, 2002
WASHINGTON (BP)--The considerable influence of American Christians can make a difference in the lives of persecuted believers in North Korea and Sudan, participants at a May 1 summit on the issue were told.
Church Waits for Demands from Colombian Guerrillas
Posted on Sunday, August 11, 2002
AUSTIN, Texas (Compass) -- 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…
Turkish Pastor Put On Trial In Diyarbakir
Posted on Sunday, August 11, 2002
ISTANBUL, May 7 (Compass) -- 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…
Protests of Christian persecution gaining traction in U.S.
Posted on Sunday, August 11, 2002
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP)--The revelation by North Korea that it had engaged in a clandestine operation to develop nuclear weapons, contrary to promises made to the Clinton administration in 1994, thrust the Asian nation again into the news. However,…
Pakistan’s Christians Told to ‘Protect Themselves’
Posted on Sunday, August 11, 2002
ISTANBUL, September 9 (Compass) -- In the wake of two more deadly terrorist attacks against Christian institutions in Pakistan in early August, government security officials have advised local church leaders to arm themselves for possible assaults by Muslim…
Muslim Mob Storms Church; Forces Closure
Posted on Sunday, August 11, 2002
DAKAR, SENEGAL (ANS) -- A local Muslim politician at the head of a mob of young men stormed a church in Dakar on Sunday 23 May, insulting and assaulting Christian worshippers. The youths, armed with knives and stones,…
Rebels Force Churches To Close in Colombia
Posted on Sunday, August 11, 2002
COCHABAMBA, Bolivia, May 15 (Compass) -- 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.
Pakistan Sentences Another Christian to Death
Posted on Sunday, August 11, 2002
ISTANBUL, July 1 (Compass) -- Another Christian was sentenced to death in Pakistan two days ago, joining Ayub Masih in the line-up of Pakistani Christians on death row for alleged blasphemy against Islam.
