Real-time updates on incidents, legal cases, policy changes, and testimonies from the persecuted Church.
Turkmenistan deports last Russian Baptist missionary
Posted on Tuesday, May 23, 2000
23 May 2000 (Newsroom) -- Turkmen police have expelled the last remaining Russian Baptist missionary in the country, the Keston News Service reported. Authorities ordered the deportation of Vitali Tereshin in March, but the missionary went into hiding…
Turkmenistan deports last Russian Baptist missionary
Posted on Tuesday, May 23, 2000
Turkmen police have expelled the last remaining Russian Baptist missionary in the country, the Keston News Service reported. Authorities ordered the deportation of Vitali Tereshin in March, but the missionary went into hiding to continue his work. He…
Nigeria high court sets June date to hear arguments on Sharia
Posted on Monday, May 22, 2000
LAGOS, 22 May 2000 (Newsroom) -- Nigeria’s Federal High Court will hear arguments next month on the legality of Sharia law, which has sparked violent conflicts between Christians and Muslims in northern states where it has been introduced.
Fewer Christians Imprisoned in Laos
Posted on Saturday, May 20, 2000
Reports from Laos say the number of Christians held by the government has dropped in recent months. Although the Lao Constitution provides for freedom of religion, the government continues to restrict the right to practice religion.
Kosovo church reports sectarian attack
Posted on Thursday, May 18, 2000
18 May 2000 (Newsroom) -- A Pentecostal church in the Kosovo capital was raided by self-proclaimed Islamic militants, according to the Keston News Service. Christians in the Muslim-majority province of Serbia say they have been the targets of…
Kosovo church reports sectarian attack
Posted on Thursday, May 18, 2000
A Pentecostal church in the Kosovo capital was raided by self-proclaimed Islamic militants, according to the Keston News Service. Christians in the Muslim-majority province of Serbia say they have been the targets of attacks since Serbian troops withdrew…
Chinese issue jail sentences in house-church crackdown
Posted on Wednesday, May 17, 2000
17 May 2000 (Newsroom) -- Two colleagues of prominent Chinese evangelist Li Dexian have been sentenced to 15 days in prison, an Australian-based monitoring group reported. Ah Yung and Ah Kong are among 13 Protestant house church members…
Chinese issue jail sentences in house-church crackdown
Posted on Wednesday, May 17, 2000
Two colleagues of prominent Chinese evangelist Li Dexian have been sentenced to 15 days in prison, an Australian-based monitoring group reported. Ah Yung and Ah Kong are among 13 Protestant house church members who have been arrested in…
Australian missionary kidnapped in Colombia
Posted on Tuesday, May 16, 2000
16 May 2000 (Newsroom) -- An Australian Protestant missionary was kidnapped on Sunday by a gang of armed men on Colombia's north coast, according to news reports. Edward Walter Smith, 51, was abducted from a church in the…
Australian missionary kidnapped in Colombia
Posted on Tuesday, May 16, 2000
An Australian Protestant missionary was kidnapped on Sunday by a gang of armed men on Colombia's north coast, according to news reports. Edward Walter Smith, 51, was abducted from a church in the village of Canito along with…
Chinese police raid house churches across Guangdong province
Posted on Monday, May 15, 2000
15 May 2000 (Newsroom) -- Chinese police have arrested more than 10 house-church leaders across the southern province of Guangdong over the past several days, according to an Australian-based monitoring group. Two evangelists, Ah Kong and Ah Yung,…
Christians in India’s Parliament demand an end to attacks
Posted on Sunday, May 14, 2000
NEW DELHI, 14 May 2000 (Newsroom) -- Christian members of India’s Parliament have formed a committee to focus attention on growing intolerance of religious minorities throughout the country and demanded that the Bharatiya Janata Party-led government take immediate…
Six missionaries beaten during gospel campaign in India
Posted on Thursday, May 11, 2000
Six Christian missionaries participating in a gospel campaign called "Love Ahmedabad" were beaten so savagely in the state of Gujarat last week that one of the men may lose his arms and legs.
Christians attacked by mob near Bombay
Posted on Wednesday, May 10, 2000
More than 60 Christians attending a two-day religious convention were beaten by a mob of suspected Hindu nationalists in a village about 100 miles northeast of Bombay. None of the injured were hospitalized.
Executions of Christians Suspected in North Korea
Posted on Wednesday, May 10, 2000
by Alex Buchan LONDON (Compass) — Credible reports of seven Christians executed for their faith inside North Korea have reached reliable sources in China. The seven, all men ranging in age from 15 to 58 years of age,…
Christians in Indonesia’s Moluccas fear ‘religious cleansing’
Posted on Monday, May 8, 2000
Christian communities in Indonesia's Moluccas fear the onslaught of "religious cleansing" as some 3,000 extremist Muslim fighters prepare to converge on the archipelago, according to a British-based group that recently returned from a fact-finding mission. Many families already…
China detains 47 members of Protestant group
Posted on Sunday, May 7, 2000
7 May 2000 (Newsroom) -- Chinese police have detained 47 members of a Protestant group in central Anhui province, according to the state press. The Jianghui Morning Daily said last week that six of the main leaders of…
China detains 47 members of Protestant group
Posted on Sunday, May 7, 2000
Chinese police have detained 47 members of a Protestant group in central Anhui province, according to the state press. The Jianghui Morning Daily said last week that six of the main leaders of the Quanfanwei (Holistic) Church face…
