Caught amid the infighting between Hamas and Fatah and Israel’s retaliation for rockets launched at its southern cities is an easily overlooked segment of the population: Christians number only 2,000 among 1.5 million in the Gaza Strip — less than 1 percent of the population.
A Pakistani Christian teenager remained in hiding Tuesday, September 18, a day after a court overturned his prison sentence and acquitted him on blasphemy charges.
Tensions remained high Wednesday, September 19, in an area of the Indonesian city of Tangerand on the island of Java, after several Christians were injured when a congregation of the Protestant Batak Church was attacked by an angry Muslim mob, investigators said.
A prominent house church leaders who was convicted of illegally printing up to 40 million Bibles and other Christian writings was home Saturday, September 15, after three years detention, family members and Christians involved in the case said.
Influential Christian groups will hold a major rally to protest against “the alarming increase” of persecution of Christians in the Indian state of Karnataka, a key organizer told BosNewsLife Thursday, September 13.
Several Degar Montagnard House Church Christians in Vietnam’s Central Highlands remained detained Tuesday, September 11, for refusing to abandon their faith, and authorities denied Christian villagers access to local wells, investigators and missionaries said.
Chinese secret service agents are massively infiltrating China’s growing house church movement and pressure its leaders to leave Beijing before the Olympic Games are held there in 2008, well-informed Chinese sources and rights investigators told BosNewsLife Friday, September 7.
A well-known Chinese house church leader was believed to be behind bars Sunday, September 9, after he was detained by Chinese security forces and allegedly beaten for receiving three tons of Bibles from South Korean churches, fellow believers said.
Christians in Eritrea confirmed that Migsti Haile (33) passed away at the Weaa Military Training Centre. She reportedly died yesterday morning, September 5, as a result of torture for refusing to sign a letter recanting her faith.
Five Christians have been sentenced in Algeria for preaching Christianity, with some of them receiving one year imprisonment, Algerian media reported Tuesday, September 4.
An Egyptian court on Monday (September 3) adjourned the hearing of young Christian twins legally forced to take Islamic education after their estranged father became Muslim.
Despite reported execution threats and police abuse, Iranians “massively” turn to Christianity, fueling an “unprecedented” demand for Persian Bibles and New Testaments, BosNewsLife learned from Iranian sources Saturday, September 1.
Afghanistan’s militant Taliban movement released the last seven remaining South Korean Christian hostages Thursday, August 30, ending their six-week kidnapping ordeal.
The pastor of a Christian church and his American wife were shot dead in their home in the Pakistani capital Islamabad, police said Thursday, August 30.
A group of 30 Hindu radicals beat up an Indian pastor and two of his church members during a worship service on Sunday, August 26.
The fate of at least 15 Christian leaders in Zimbabwe remained uncertain Friday, August 24, after they were detained for attending a prayer meeting near the capital Harare without permission from police, opposition sources confirmed.
Christians on Sunday, August 26, managed to free an evangelical pastor who was kidnapped by Hindu militants in Bangalore, India’s third most populous city, shortly after he was beaten and nearly killed, an official told BosNewsLife.
Christian aid workers rushed to the southern Indian city of Hyderabad Sunday, August 26, as the death toll of powerful blasts rose to at least 42 there, while other Christian activists were busy helping churches attacked by suspected Hindu militants, BosNewsLife established.
China’s central government has launched a nationwide campaign to crackdown on what it calls “illegal religious activities,” targeting especially Christians, BosNewsLife learned from investigators Saturday, August 25.
Christians in Eritrea confirmed yesterday that a Protestant pastor in Asmara who disappeared 11 days ago remains missing.