Real-time updates on incidents, legal cases, policy changes, and testimonies from the persecuted Church.
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…
MORE CHURCHES DESTROYED IN NORTHERN NIGERIA
Posted on Sunday, August 26, 2001
MORE CHURCHES DESTROYED IN NORTHERN NIGERIA Sharia-related Tension Continues to Breed Violence by Obed Minchakpu GUSAU, Nigeria (Compass) — At least five churches were destroyed during February in northern Nigeria as the controversial implementation of Islamic law continued…
Nigerian Churches will Challenge Islamic Law
Posted on Sunday, August 26, 2001
LAGOS, Nigeria (Compass) -- Disturbed by some northern Nigeria states' widespread declaration that they are Islamic states and have adopted Islam as the state religion, Nigerian Christian churches have resolved to go to court to challenge what they…
New Blasphemy Case Filed Against Pakistani Christian
Posted on Sunday, August 26, 2001
ISTANBUL, April 9 (Compass) -- Police in Pakistan's Punjab province registered another questionable blasphemy case against one of its Christian citizens on April 1, jailing a respected high school principal for slander he allegedly spoke two months ago…
