Real-time updates on incidents, legal cases, policy changes, and testimonies from the persecuted Church.
Our Silence Kills, Please Speak Up
Posted on Tuesday, September 4, 2001
"Speak up for those who can't speak for themselves, for the rights of all who are destitute. Speak up and judge fairly, defend the right of the poor and needy" (Proverbs 31:8-9)
Seminary profs reflect on study on healthful benefits of prayer
Posted on Tuesday, September 4, 2001
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (BP)--With a heart institute study showing that prayer helps patients improve, two Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary professors warn against depending upon scientific verification of a spiritual exercise.
Commission’s first hearing focuses on U.S. role in Sudanese conflict
Posted on Tuesday, September 4, 2001
WASHINGTON (BP)--The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom received in its first hearing a variety of recommendations on halting the religious persecution and civil war in Sudan, but there seemed to be widespread agreement on one sentiment --…
Casualty Figures Released in Kaduna, Nigeria
Posted on Monday, September 3, 2001
LAGOS, Nigeria (Compass) -- The head of the Nigerian Bible Society recently released the casualty figures of Christians killed and churches destroyed during the February and May religious clashes between Muslims and Christians in Kaduna, the capital city…
Mongolia gives local Christian 13-year Prision Sentence
Posted on Saturday, September 1, 2001
ISTANBUL, April 7 (Compass) -- A Mongolian citizen of ethnic Kazakh descent has been sentenced to 13 years in a prison labor camp in western Mongolia on charges of propagating the Christian faith.
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…
