Petitions urged for jailed pastors
An American pastor has been arrested and detained in India because he is a Christian. After more than 17 years ministering to the people of Nepal and India – training…
Baghdadi mission named after Christian martyr
The US raid that resulted in the death of the leader of Isis in October was named after a Christian woman he raped. Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi killed himself rather than…
Church BULLDOZED during service
Bulldozers started demolishing the 3,000-seat Fuyang Christian Church in Fenan, Anhui province, during a worship service, while congregants were inside. Not only were no legal papers presented, but it was…
Muslim saves Christians from terrorists
A Muslim driver saved eight Christians when he refused to obey jihadist militants. The man was driving the Christians home from the building site where they worked in southern Kenya…
Russian Christian fights for right to worship at home
A Christian woman is challenging a Russian law which has resulted in her being fined for holding worship services at her home. Olga Glamozdinova from the village of Veselyi is…
Asia Bibi stands up for other ‘blasphemy’ victims
The woman imprisoned for a decade in Pakistan on false blasphemy charges, Asia Bibi, has spoken in support of other Christians imprisoned in the Islamic nation. From her new home…
Bible translator butchered in Cameroon
A Wycliffe Bible translator was hacked to death in a recent attack in Cameroon, where women’s ears have also been cut off with machetes. On 25 August, a group of…
Police investigate MP’s ‘hate crime’
A Finnish Christian MP is being investigated under hate crime legislation for quoting the Bible’s teaching on homosexuality. Christian Democrat MP Päivi Räsänen criticised the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland…
Christian leaders killed in Mexico
Drug cartels are suspected of killing a pastor and a priest in Mexico. Although the police were still unsure of the motive at the time of writing, many Christian leaders…
Six year old beaten for parents’ faith
A six-year-old girl has been viciously beaten in Vietnam because her parents converted to Christianity. The whole family were “brutally attacked”, according to Open Doors, but the little girl was…
Christian tortured to death by Pakistan police
Police in Lahore, Pakistan, have killed a young Christian father. On 28 August police officers unlawfully arrested 28-year-old Amir Masih, falsely accusing him of theft, and tortured him for four…
Government accepts persecution review in full
“Freedom of religion will be at heart of government policy” Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt and the Bishop of Truro, Rt Rev Philip Mounstephen After years of virtual silence over the…
Burmese Christians forced to convert
Officials in western Burma (Myanmar) have forced three Christians to become Buddhists, according to Morning Star News. Firstly, in May, two ethnic Chin Christians, a pastor and member of his…
Hymns replaced with communist anthems
Churches in China are being forced to sing songs praising the state instead of God. The communist government is banning traditional hymns and ordering registered churches to use a new…
Children killed by extremists in Nigeria
Three children were among Christians killed recently in two Nigerian states by Muslim Fulani herdsmen. Morning Star News reports that on 17 June in Kaduna state, over 200 armed herdsmen…