A Baptist Pastor in Kazakhstan was preparing for a difficult period Sunday, June 11, after being fined more than three times the estimated average monthly salary for leading “registered religious activity,” Christian rights investigators said.
Christians in India’s volatile state of Andhra Pradesh were anticipating more attacks against them Sunday, June 11, amid reports of sectarian violence in which at least 13 people died, a police raid and threats in a village where women were allegedly raped for refusing to abandon their faith in Christ.
Three small children in Vietnam’s Central Highlands were without caring adults Saturday, June 10, nearly three weeks after their mother and mother-in-law were arrested for refusing to join the official church which they claim worships a Communist leader instead of Jesus Christ, friends said.
A leading Christian human rights watchdog expressed concern Friday, June 9, over the whereabouts of 10 North Koreans and two Christian South Korean aid workers who were detained in Laos as they tried to find a “safe haven in a Southeast Asian country.”
Police raided a home in Jabalpur city, Madhya Pradesh on Tuesday (June 6) and arrested the Christians there after officers and Hindu extremists pressured a neighbor to file a charge.
Three members of an underground house church in China’s Henan province remained in prison Thursday, June 8, after security forces raided the congregation last month and detained dozens of believers during a Sunday worship service, supporters said.
An evangelical pastor in India’s troubled state of Madhya Pradesh who was arrested while leading a house prayer meeting this weekend was reportedly free Wednesday, June 7, after a court released him on bail.
Burma’s military continued its “biggest offensive” in nearly a decade against the, predominantly Christian, Karen community and eyewitnesses reported killings, burning of villages and the capture of civilians, including children, investigators confirmed Tuesday, June 6.
With the encouragement of a local chief and the apparent backing of a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader, villagers in the north-central state of Madhya Pradesh on Sunday (May 28) gang-raped two Christian women after the husband of one refused to deny Christ.
A prominent Christian prisoner in China was still suffering from recent beatings Saturday, June 3, as Chinese authorities have refused to give him proper medical treatment, his family and investigators said.
Secret Service agents recently showed up at the office of Great News Network in Dallas, Texas and demanded their entire stock of $1 million dollar gospel tracts that are produced by Ray Comfort’s ministry, Living Waters. The tracts are used by Ray Comfort and his co-host Kirk Cameron and have been promoted on their national television program.
Several Christian rights organizations have launched a massive campaign to highlight the plight of roughly 1,800 Christians in Eritrea who are held in prisons, military camps and even shipping containers, and will release an album of an incarcerated Eritrean Gospel singer, BosNewsLife monitored Saturday, June 3.
The administration of Rajasthan state’s Kota district has leveled fresh charges of “exciting . . . disaffection towards the government of India” against a major evangelical mission organization, a move that could lead to the re-arrest of its leaders, news reports said Thursday, June 1.
Christian rights activists on Thursday, June 1, welcomed a decision by United Nations human rights officials to pressure North Korea to suspend the scheduled execution of Son Jong Nam, a detained Christian who criticized living conditions in his Communist-run nation.
A Pakistani Christian reportedly spent his first full day in freedom Wednesday, May 31, after more than seven years of imprisonment for allegedly burning the Koran, a crime he says he never committed.