Christians in Muslim-dominated regions of Ethiopia faced another tense Sunday, August 13, amid what Christian investigators describe as “severe but under-reported persecution,” including the crucifixion of one Christian believer.
All but two of the nearly 100 outlets affiliated with New Life Radio (NLR), a Russian satellite network operated by Christian Radio for Russia with HCJB World Radio as the principal partner, have been forced to go off the air temporarily.
A mob of 200 people, accompanied by three Buddhist monks, attacked a children’s home run by the Dutch Reformed Church in central Sri Lanka on Sunday, and planted a Buddhist flag on the roof.
A pastor in the Three-Self Church in Pinglu County, Shanxi Province was prohibited from preaching and forced to leave the church by the Chinese Religious Affairs Bureau.
Secret documents show Saddam Hussein’s regime and local Kurdish leaders were involved in the “ethnic cleansing”, “gassing” and “Islamization” of Assyrian Christians in Northern Iraq, with international religious aid organizations refusing to intervene, an Assyrian official claimed Wednesday, August 4.
A Chinese court sentenced officials of China’s rapidly growing independent house church movement to up to three years in prison Friday, August 6, on charges of leaking “state secrets” to overseas organizations, human rights watchers said.
Four Gospel for Asia (GFA) Bible college students have been released after spending two days in a jail in Bagalkote, Karnataka, on false charges brought by a radical Hindu group.
At least 20 Christians were wounded in Baghdad and Mosul in the largest terrorist attacks against churches ever, reports said Sunday, August 1.
Amid international pressure, Bhutan released two evangelical Christian government workers who were jailed after preaching and showing the internationally acclaimed ‘Jesus’ film to Buddhists, Christian rights investigators confirmed Monday, July 31.
Four key leaders of China’s house church movement have been sentenced to two years “re-education through labor” in the central-western province of Sichuan, fellow believers confirmed Thursday, July 27.
The parliament of the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh passed a controversial bill Tuesday, July 25, to prevent ‘religious conversions by force or allurement,’ a move critics claim is aimed at the Christian minority and preachers.
There were fears Tuesday, July 25, that four key leaders of a house church movement in China’s central-western province of Sichuan were sent to a hard labor camp following their detention late last month.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.