Real-time updates on incidents, legal cases, policy changes, and testimonies from the persecuted Church.
More churches burned in Nigeria
Posted on Tuesday, March 28, 2000
Four churches were burned by Muslim youths on Monday in Demboa in the state of Borno in northeast Nigeria, police there confirm. Eight houses and shops owned by Christians and a police station were destroyed during the riot,…
Spice Islands clashes continue
Posted on Monday, March 27, 2000
27 March 2000 (Newsroom) -- At least 40 people were killed last week in continuing sectarian violence in Indonesia's Moluccas, also known as the Spice Islands. According to news reports, the fatalities resulted from clashes between Muslims and…
Fate of Kidnapped Missionaries Still Unsolved
Posted on Monday, March 27, 2000
Resolution as to the fate of three American missionaries kidnapped in Panama in 1993 by Colombian guerrillas continues to evade family and friends.
Spice Islands clashes continue
Posted on Monday, March 27, 2000
At least 40 people were killed last week in continuing sectarian violence in Indonesia's Moluccas, also known as the Spice Islands. According to news reports, the fatalities resulted from clashes between Muslims and Christians in the town of…
Bomb Hits Christian School In Southern Sudan
Posted on Sunday, March 26, 2000
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, IL (March 26, 2000) - A Christian school in Southern Sudan was attacked on Thursday, March 23, by the Islamic-led government forces of Sudan and numerous injuries were inflicted to students and their parents.
Bomb Hits Christian School in Southern Sudan
Posted on Sunday, March 26, 2000
A Christian school in Southern Sudan was attacked on Thursday, March 23, by the Islamic-led government forces of Sudan and numerous injuries were inflicted to students and their parents.
Peruvian Terrorists Murder Christian Leader
Posted on Friday, March 24, 2000
An evangelical Peruvian village leader was executed March 20 after Marxist guerrillas declared him guilty of taking part in police and military activities.
VOM Hospital bombed by Government of Sudan
Posted on Monday, March 20, 2000
A VOM-sponsored hospital in Southern Sudan was targeted by bombs of the radical Islamic Government of Sudan (GOS) early Tuesday morning, killing one Christian worker and one other person and injuring several others.
Last Assembly of God church in Vietnam destroyed
Posted on Monday, March 20, 2000
The last Assembly of God church building in the nation of Vietnam was destroyed last week. Before 1975, the Assemblies of God church had ten church buildings in Vietnam. Nine were destroyed or confiscated by the government prior…
International Aid Sending Medicine, Food to Mozambique
Posted on Wednesday, March 15, 2000
SPRING LAKE, Michigan (Wednesday, March 15, 2000) -- "There are over 300,000 still in refugee camps in Mozambique, almost 2,000 still stranded in isolated pockets and the death total could climb into the thousands. Almost 150 schools have…
Chinese house church leader arrested again
Posted on Tuesday, March 14, 2000
14 March 2000 (Newsroom) -- Chinese house church leader Li Dexian was detained by police on Tuesday morning and released the same evening without harm. The Protestant evangelist was arrested by Public Security Bureau officers at his weekly…
Chinese house church leader arrested again
Posted on Tuesday, March 14, 2000
Chinese house church leader Li Dexian was detained by police on Tuesday morning and released the same evening without harm. The Protestant evangelist was arrested by Public Security Bureau officers at his weekly 10 a.m. Bible study in…
Christians in Kaduna forced to renounce their faith or die
Posted on Monday, March 13, 2000
KADUNA, Nigeria, 13 March 2000 (Newsroom) -- About 300 Christians of the Kabe ethnic group in the city of Kaduna were abducted and forced to renounce their faith by their Muslim captors during religious clashes in the state…
Christians in Kaduna forced to renounce their faith or die
Posted on Monday, March 13, 2000
About 300 Christians of the Kabe ethnic group in the city of Kaduna were abducted and forced to renounce their faith by their Muslim captors during religious clashes in the state last month, according to a human rights…
Turkmenistan deports more missionaries
Posted on Monday, March 13, 2000
Baptists in Turkmenistan fear that national security police are following through with a two-phase plan to deport missionaries and "strangle the remaining Christians in the country," the Keston News Service reported. Church members claim that officers of the…
Turkmen Secret Police Deports Baptist Couple
Posted on Sunday, March 12, 2000
A Baptist leader who had been held in prison by Turkmenistan's secret police (KNB) since February 2 was deported from the Central Asian state yesterday.
