Real-time updates on incidents, legal cases, policy changes, and testimonies from the persecuted Church.
Why TBN’s Paul Crouch Does Not Understand China
Posted on Friday, August 24, 2001
Paul Crouch got it wrong. In fact, Christian leaders only get it that wrong once or twice a decade. The last time a Christian leader visited China and swallowed and disgorged official propaganda so obligingly for his Chinese…
Egypt Acquits All Muslim Murder Suspects
Posted on Friday, August 24, 2001
ISTANBUL, February 6 (Compass) -- Instead of convicting the Muslim murder suspects accused of killing 21 Christians in last year's El-Kosheh massacre, a judge in southern Egypt has accused the local Coptic clergy of responsibility for the three-day…
Christians Attacked in Borno, Nigeria
Posted on Friday, August 24, 2001
DAMBOA, Nigeria (Compass) -- A Christian-Muslim conflict in Damboa in northeastern Nigeria's Borno state resulted in the deaths of 15 Christians, and four churches were burned.
Egyptian Security Police Threaten, Torture Local Christian
Posted on Friday, August 24, 2001
ISTANBUL, July 6 (Compass) -- Officials from Egypt's powerful State Security Intelligence (SSI) agency detained a Coptic Orthodox Christian for the fourth time in early June, interrogating him under torture on accusations of preaching Christianity to Muslims.
Christian Community Center Burned in Malaysia
Posted on Friday, August 24, 2001
LOS ANGELES, August 23 (Compass) -- A Christian community center in Malaysia was set ablaze on July 21 by suspected Muslim extremists. The building was unoccupied during the alleged arson attack, reported local fire and rescue officials.
Taliban Vow To Execute Afghans Who Convert
Posted on Friday, August 24, 2001
ISTANBUL (Compass) -- The supreme leader of Afghanistan's ruling Taliban militia warned on January 8 that his regime will apply the death penalty to any Muslim who converts to another faith.
Church Harassment in Eastern China Worsens
Posted on Friday, August 24, 2001
BEIJING (Compass) -- Christian leaders in both the unofficial house churches and the registered "Three Self" churches in eastern China confirmed in June that their situation has become more difficult.
Courageous Christians Imprisoned for 15 Days (China)
Posted on Friday, August 24, 2001
The Voice of the Martyrs rejoiced to learn yesterday that Chinese Christian “Sister Tong†has been released from prison following a 15 day prison sentence. A VOM worker in the area was able to pass financial support and…
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…
