Real-time updates on incidents, legal cases, policy changes, and testimonies from the persecuted Church.
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…
Mob Attacks Church In Tripura, India
Posted on Sunday, August 26, 2001
by Michael Fischer HONG KONG (Compass) — A fundamentalist Hindu mob attacked a church in the eastern Indian state of Tripura on February 25. Church leaders say the Krishnanagar Baptist Church in the capital Agartala was attacked as…
Four weeks without arrest for Chinese pastor Li De Xian
Posted on Friday, August 24, 2001
Pastor Li De Xian preached twice this week in his usual Tuesday meeting in Huadu near Guangzhou, China without interference from Chinese authorities. This marks four consecutive weeks without arrest or interference for Pastor Li's ministry.
Top Stories of the Year 2000
Posted on Friday, August 24, 2001
The growing awareness of worldwide Christian persecution can hardly be explained by the actions of a few people or the dramatic events in a specific country. So the following list of "top" stories for 2000 should be viewed…
Religious Freedom in the Classroom Disputed in Chile
Posted on Friday, August 24, 2001
SANTIAGO, Chile (Compass) -- The issue of religious discrimination is in the public spotlight in Chile, due to the case of San Pedro de la Paz, a town some 300 miles south of Santiago. There a Baptist lawyer…
On Cults, Leaders and Politics in China
Posted on Friday, August 24, 2001
ANHUI "Here we only have one registered church, which is packed out with people standing in the courtyard. However, since the church was opened, none of the accounts listing all the believers' donations have ever been made public…
High Profile Prisoner Released, but Others Arrested in China
Posted on Friday, August 24, 2001
HONG KONG (Compass) -- Zhang Rongliang, also known as David Zhang, is at large in China despite receiving a three-years' hard labor sentence in December 1999. Reliable reports from central China say he was able to buy himself…
