Real-time updates on incidents, legal cases, policy changes, and testimonies from the persecuted Church.
Saudi Arabia Ignores Consular Access Request
Posted on Sunday, August 5, 2001
ISTANBUL, November 5 (Compass) -- At least 12 foreign Christians jailed months ago in the Saudi Arabian port city of Jeddah remain under arrest in the Sharafia detention facility, despite verbal reports that investigations of their case were…
Jeddah Police Holding 13 Foreign Christians In Custody
Posted on Sunday, August 5, 2001
ISTANBUL (Compass) -- At least 13 foreign Christians have been arrested since mid July in Jeddah, where Saudi Arabia's religious police are apparently trying to track down Saudi nationals thought to have contact with expatriate house churches in…
Churches See Islam as the Growing Threat
Posted on Saturday, August 4, 2001
(Compass) – "This especially applies to Sokodé and the areas of mid and northern Togo. I know of four men and four women who keep their Bibles hidden and read them when no one else is around. They…
Believers Face Poverty and Death for the Sake of Christ (Ghana)
Posted on Saturday, August 4, 2001
A recent VOM report from Ghana tells of the needs faced by our Christian brothers and sisters who face persecution from animists and Muslims in the countryside. Recently VOM workers had to disguise themselves as they traveled into…
Indian Government Launches War on Terrorism and Missionaries
Posted on Saturday, August 4, 2001
BANGALORE, India (Compass) -- The Indian government has launched its own "war on terrorism" against two fronts: terrorists and missionaries. The Hindu fundamentalist government is planning to introduce two bills that are being condemned as "draconian" by religious…
Georgia: “No Action” In Wake Of Attack on Pentecostals
Posted on Saturday, August 4, 2001
Members of the Word of Life Pentecostal Church, human rights activists and some politicians have complained about the failure of the police or prosecutor's office to take any action so far in the wake of last month's attack…
2 Christians killed, others tortured in Chinese Government crackdown
Posted on Friday, August 3, 2001
WASHINGTON (BP)--Two Christians have been killed in the Chinese government's crackdown on pastor Gong Shengliang and his South China Church in central Hubei Province, according to a letter from members of the underground church revealing graphic details and…
Chinese Christians Pay Ultimate Price
Posted on Friday, August 3, 2001
Soon after winning the right to host the 2008 Olympics, China is showing the world that being a non-registered Christian is a most dangerous sport.
British Soldier Killed While Protecting Church in Kosovo
Posted on Friday, August 3, 2001
BUDAPEST/PRISTINA (ANS) -- The NATO peacekeeping force in Kosovo (K-FOR) has identified a British soldier who died while guarding a Serbian Orthodox Church in the regional Capital Pristina, ASSIST News Service learned Wednesday December 19.
Foreign Christians Still Locked up in Jeddah
Posted on Friday, August 3, 2001
ISTANBUL, November 27 (Compass) -- More than a dozen foreign Christians remain jailed in the Saudi Arabian city of Jeddah, where local authorities have for months ignored inquiries and notes of protest from consulates requesting diplomatic access to…
New Trial Ordered for Accused Killers in El-Kosheh Massacre (Egypt)
Posted on Wednesday, August 1, 2001
On Monday, an Egyptian appeals court overturned a controversial verdict that absolved most defendants in the country's worst massacre of Christians in decades in early January 2001 and ordered a retrial. Over the weekend of December 31, 1999…
