China Security Forces Raid House Church, 20 Detained
Chinese police forces raided a house church in Hubei province Friday, July 21, and detained over 20 Christians, fellow believers said.
Chinese police forces raided a house church in Hubei province Friday, July 21, and detained over 20 Christians, fellow believers said.
Police on Sunday (July 16) arrested Pastor Om Prakash Pandey while he was leading worship at his independent church in the village of Daksinwara, in the Sultanpur district of Uttar Pradesh state.
Three major advocacy groups have given the Eritrean Embassy in London a petition signed by over 100,000 people demanding the release of Christians jailed for their faith, organizers said Wednesday, July 19.
There was mounting concern Saturday, July 15, over the situation of hundreds of Christian Degar Montagnard prisoners in Vietnam following reports that at least two of them have died because of torture.
A prominent leader of a house church in China’s Jilin province was still in jail Saturday, July 15, after she was detained along with her husband and small child earlier this week, fellow believers said.
Hindu militants attacked an evangelical church and base for Christian missionaries in the suburbs of the south Indian city Bangalore, the capital of Karnataka state, causing serious damage and leaving the pastor and his small child “terribly traumatized,” local Christians said Monday, July 17.
Christians in Somalia were bracing for more attacks Thursday, July 13, amid reports that at least three Christian men were killed in the capital Mogadishu, as Muslim violence spread across this Horn of Africa nation.
Germany plans to deport an Iranian asylum seeker back to Iran, although he may face execution there because he converted from Islam to Christianity, BosNewsLife monitored Tuesday, July 11.
For two years Francis Yohanna Anche, 15, has been suffering from a brain injury he sustained when Muslim students in his high school in Zaria city attacked Christian students. His right hand and leg are still paralyzed from a machete cut to his head.
Family and friends are searching for two Christian government workers jailed in Bhutan for showing the internationally acclaimed ‘Jesus’ film, a well informed source said Monday, July 10, on condition of anonymity for security reasons.
Vietnamese police have detained several Montagnard Degar Christians for attending a massive prayer vigil where believers prayed for the government and for an end of religious persecution, representatives said Monday, July 10.
Mexican authorities have agreed to release some of 90 jailed men, including evangelical Christians, who were charged with involvement in killing 45 Tzotzil Indians in southeast Mexico in 1997, sources close to the negotiations said Monday, July 10.
Christian leaders warned Friday, July 7, that the Communist-led government in the Indian state of Kerala is attempting to “takeover” schools from Christians and other minorities by introducing measures allegedly aimed at ending the independence of religious education.
Christians involved in peacekeeping in Somalia urged the international community to intervene, as rival militias reportedly prepared for battled Saturday, July 8, in the troubled African nation’s capital Mogadishu.
Three leaders of a controversial religious group were awaiting their execution Friday, July 7, and one house church pastor continued serving a seven and a half years prison term for his Christian activities, co-workers and a religious rights group said.
Suspected Islamic militants shot and killed a 47-year-old pastor and his 22-year-old daughter in Mindanao, the second largest and easternmost island of the Philippines, investigators said Thursday, July 6.
At least three people were killed and 30 others injured when Nigeria’s ‘Taliban’ militia attacked a Christian village in Taraba State, rights watchers and news reports said Wednesday July 5.
Church leaders here said Muslim extremists overwhelmed police officers providing refuge for an unidentified Christian woman in this town in Niger state on June 28 and stoned and clubbed her to death for doing street evangelism.
Over 150 young Dalit girls remained in a state of shock Thursday, July 6, just hours after Hindu militants reportedly attempted to rape and kill them in an orphanage run by a major evangelical mission group in the Indian state of Rajasthan.
At least three Montagnard Degar Christians died and many more were injured in recent weeks because of torture carried out by Vietnamese police, friends and fellow prisoners confirmed Monday, July 3.