Despite persecution and bloodshed thousands of Bibles have been distributed in northern Iraq and “many Iraqis” are becoming Christians, missionaries told BosNewsLife in a statement monitored Sunday, August 12.
Two Egyptian Christians remained detained late Thursday, August 9, after police detained them for their work on the Web site of a Christian Arab group based in Canada.
Baptist Pastor Zaur Balaev has been sentenced to two years in jail, after being convicted of using violence against a state representative.
An Egyptian convert to Christianity who filed suit for his conversion to be officially recognized is in hiding after his attorney announced he would withdraw from the case yesterday.
A Muslim convert to Christianity filed suit against Egypt last week for refusing to legally recognize his change of religion, sparking a reactionary lawsuit by Muslim clerics and death threats against his lawyer.
Security forces and others have killed at least 13 Christians in Laos in recent weeks as part of a crackdown on Hmong villagers “falsely accused of stirring rebel dissent”, a Christian news agency reported Tuesday, August 7.
A Christian advocacy group has asked the chief minister of the northeastern state of Assam to provide protection to believers after unidentified assailants suspected to be Hindu extremists beat a Christian worker to death in Guwahati.
Pakistani officials have halted all Bible classes for Christian prisoners in a Punjab jail, isolating the inmate who taught the classes and barring a local pastor from his weekly visits, a non-governmental organization (NGO) working in prisons reported.
A Russian Baptist Pastor spent another Sunday, August 5, without his family after he was deported from Turkmenistan for his church activities, fellow Christians and human rights watchers said.
Christians in the Philippines on Saturday, August 4, mourned the death of a Protestant pastor who was killed in one of two explosions that ripped through a bus terminal in southern Koronadal City. The blast Friday, August 3, also wounded up to 10 passengers, police and media reports said.
Baptist Christians in the former Soviet republic of Kazakhstan faced an uncertain weekend Saturday, August 4, amid reports that authorities barred a mother and her young child from entering their home because of their involvement in a Baptist church.
The Washington-DC based human rights group, International Christian Concern (ICC) www.persecution.org has learned that an Egyptian Christian working in Saudi Arabia as a surgeon has been repeatedly blocked from going home for over two years. The Saudi government has intentionally run him in circles, promising he can leave, then refusing to let him go.