Real-time updates on incidents, legal cases, policy changes, and testimonies from the persecuted Church.
Christian Youth Work Under Attack in China
Posted on Friday, August 24, 2001
LONDON (Compass) -- Last July, authorities in the eastern Chinese province of Anhui moved to discourage Christian work with young people through an article that appeared in the local Anhui "Xinan Evening News."
Saudi Arabia Is Again The World’s Worst Persecutor of Christians
Posted on Friday, August 24, 2001
SANTA ANA, CA (ANS) - Turkmenistan has moved to fifth place on the Open Doors World Watch List of worst persecutors of Christians, behind Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan, Laos and China, causing "great concern" to persecution watchers around the…
Police Arrest Two Christians in Azerbaijan
Posted on Friday, August 24, 2001
ISTANBUL, April 11 (Compass) -- Two Christians were sent to jail yesterday for seven days on charges of "disobeying the police" in the town of Ismailly, 120 miles west of the Azerbaijani capital of Baku.
Christians among ethnic minorities facing ‘genocide’ in former Burma
Posted on Thursday, August 23, 2001
LONDON (BP)--A sizeable Christian community is among the Karen people group in Myanmar (formerly Burma) facing abuse at the hands of the country's military regime, according to Newsroom-Online, an Internet news service based in London.
Sixteen Arrested for Possessing Christian Literature (Algeria)
Posted on Wednesday, August 22, 2001
Sixteen young people were arrested recently in Algeria for possessing Bibles and other Christian literature, according to a report by ZENIT (August 3, 2001). Ranging in age from 20 to 31 and members of a Christian denomination from…
Colombian Pastor Reads Bible to Kidnappers
Posted on Monday, August 20, 2001
Last May, evangelical pastor Juan Carlos Villegas was kidnapped and held for 12 days by the National Liberation Army in war-torn Colombia. They forced him to walk for many hours each day so that neither the Colombian Army…
Hostage Pastor Released Unharmed in Colombia
Posted on Friday, August 17, 2001
AUSTIN, Texas, August 16 (Compass) -- Colombian pastor Enrique Gómez was released unharmed on August 11 after being held hostage for six months by Colombian guerrillas.
What’s Really Happening In Indonesia?
Posted on Tuesday, August 14, 2001
A militant fundamentalist group from Idaho is spreading terror across the Midwest-and federal troops are siding with the attackers.
Afghanistan Executions Raise New Fears About Arrested Aid Workers
Posted on Wednesday, August 8, 2001
KABUL/BUDAPEST (ANS) -- Four executions on Wednesday in Afghanistan have speed up diplomatic efforts to free 24 aid workers, including eight foreigners, who were arrested by the country's Islamic "Taleban" rulers, on charges of spreading Christianity.
Xu Yongze Released from Labor Camp in China
Posted on Tuesday, August 7, 2001
LONDON, August 7 (Compass) -- China's most famous house church prisoner, Mr. Xu Yongze, is free. The 58-year-old founder of the Born Again movement was released on May 16, after serving a three-year "re-education through labor" sentence for…
Canada Starts Application Process For Stranded Iranian Christians
Posted on Tuesday, August 7, 2001
ISTANBUL, August 7 (Compass) -- Canadian authorities issued written verification yesterday that its embassy in the Turkish capital of Ankara has begun the immigration application process for an Iranian Christian family stranded in eastern Turkey for more than…
Taleban Takes Hard Line With Arrested Aid Workers (Afghanistan)
Posted on Monday, August 6, 2001
Afghanistan's ruling Taleban authorities have ruled out pardons for eight foreign aid workers detained for allegedly spreading the Christian faith, declaring that they and their 16 Afghan colleagues must stand trial on charges of promoting Christianity. Western diplomats…
Saudi Red Tape Delays Foreign Christians’ Release
Posted on Monday, August 6, 2001
ISTANBUL, January 21 (Compass) -- Six of 14 foreign Christians slated for deportation from Saudi Arabia have been released for return to their home countries during the past 10 days. But another eight prisoners and their families remain…
Three Christian Prisoners Still Held In Saudi Arabia
Posted on Monday, August 6, 2001
ISTANBUL, February 11 (Compass) -- Five more jailed Christians caught in deportation wrangles in Jeddah since December have been released to their home countries during the past two weeks, leaving one Filipino and two Ethiopians still under detention…
Christmas Season Tense For Pakistan’s Christians
Posted on Sunday, August 5, 2001
ISTANBUL, December 3 (Compass) -- Five weeks after Islamic extremists gunned down 15 Pakistani Christians in a Sunday morning worship service, church leaders across Pakistan admitted that their congregations remain "tense and fearful" as Christmas approaches.
