Chinese government targets Christians in the wake of COVID, takes down crosses, raiding churches
Across China, the Chinese government continues its crackdown against Christianity, with ongoing raids, cross removal, and disbandment activities. According to Chinese Christian Fellowship of Righteousness (CCFR), More...
Pakistan Pastor Haroon Cheeda and his family attacked for building a wall on their own land
On April 21 Pastor Haroon Cheeda, his wife Mariam and their 15-year-old son Asher were attacked by their Muslim neighbour. Rafique Bhatti attacked them for building a wall on their own land. He has illegally built More...
India’s General Secretary of VHP Milind Parande attacks Christians and Muslims, ‘destroying’ the ‘culture’ and ‘religion’
Milind Parande, the General Secretary of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP), has unleashed a fresh tirade of hate against India’s Christian and Muslim populations. In an interview the Times of India, Parande peddled More...
Iranian Ayatollah Sayed Mostafa Mohaghegh Damad reaches out to Vatican for Wuhan Coronavirus help
An Iranian Ayatollah, Sayed Mostafa Mohaghegh Damad, has written a letter to the Vatican appealing for assistance as the coronavirus spreads throughout his country. This is not the first time that Ayatollah Damad More...
Pakistan Christians John Masih, Shamshad Bibi kept from son by Islamic clerics
Pakistani Christian parents have been refused the return of their son because he converted to Islam, and therefore cannot live with them. According to reports John Masih and his wife Shamshad Bibi of Mian Channu, More...
Pakistan: 2 Christian men shot in the attack, another injured by axe attack for building a church
Two Pakistani Christian men who were working on the construction of a Church in Sahiwal, Punjab have been shot in their head while other have been injured. On 2nd February local Muslims Muhammad Akram, Muhammad More...
Indian Pastor Mukam Kiraad Charged with Illegally Practicing Medicine, can get three years in prison
According to Morning Star News, a pastor and two other Christians in India’s Madhya Pradesh state were arrested last month after being falsely accused of illegally practicing medicine. The foundation for the outrageous More...
China sentences Pastor Wang Yi to 9 years in prison for ‘subversion of state power’ and ‘illegal business’
International Christian Concern (ICC) has learned that Pastor Wang Yi from Early Rain Covenant Church (ERCC) in Sichuan was sentenced to nine years in prison for “subversion of state power” and “illegal More...
Pakistan: Christian teen, Huma, kidnapped in Karachi, police refuse to investigate Abdul Jabar
On October 10, 2019, Huma, a 14-year-old Christian girl, was reportedly kidnapped by armed men. Since then, Huma’s family has fought tirelessly to bring Huma home and highlight the plight of Christian women and More...
Egypt cracks down on free speech, raids news site Mada Masr over Christian persecution coverage
Egyptian authorities raided one of the last independent news sites in the country, Mada Masr, after having arrested one of their editors the day prior. The news site has received international awards for its independent More...
Pakistan Christian Amir Masih escapes blasphemy charges as Imams rally violence against Christians
On Saturday, October 26, Amir Masih, a Christian sanitation worker from Yousafabad, a small town near Faisalabad, was falsely accused of blasphemy. Fortunately, after local police intervened, the blasphemy charges More...
Christian Pastor Ramesh Pargi attacked, beaten in India’s Gujarat state
Morning Star News reports that a pastor in India’s Gujarat state has suffered severe injuries after he was beaten unconscious by a mob of radical Hindu nationalists. According to the victim, the radicals attacked More...
Bishop of Aleppo Antoine Audo says mission in Syria is ‘attention to the poor’ serving people
Syria, in its present war-torn, broken state, while an immediate detriment to its inhabitants and concern to its neighbors, has presented the Church with a unique opportunity to serve its neighbors. Such a task More...
Turkey removes soccer flags because they contains symbols of a cross
Turkish police in Istanbul removed the flags of football (soccer) fans sporting the symbol of a cross. The football match between Mönchengladbach (Germany) and Basaksehir (Turkey) occurred on October 3rd as part More...
Pastor Li Juncai jailed after fighting against China’s demand to remove cross from Zhongxin Church in Xinxiang
Pastor Li Juncai, along with three staff from Zhongxin Church in Xinxiang County, Henan, was criminally detained by local authorities on February 20, after having firmly resisted the cross removal at their church. More...
During Hong Kong Protests Chinese officials target Catholics, ‘unofficial’ churches
As anti-extradition law protests continue to escalate in Hong Kong, the Chinese government is targeting underground Catholics in China who refuse to join official churches and could potentially form alliance with More...
Pastor Yousef Nadarkhani writes plea for help during hunger strike from Iran’s Evin Prison
Nearly one week has passed since Pastor Yousef Nadarkhani has begun a hunger strike from Evin Prison, where he is serving a 10-year jail sentence. He began the hunger strike in response to the Education Ministry’s More...
Wajih-ul-Hassan acquitted from Pakistan blasphemy charges after 18 years in prison
Last Wednesday, September 25, the Supreme Court of Pakistan acquitted a man accused of blasphemy after he spent 18 years in prison. According to local activists, the acquittal of Wajih-ul-Hassan is the third instance More...
Iran denies Christian Pastor Yousef Nadarkhani’s children their high school diplomas
wo Iranian Christian children whose father is imprisoned for his faith have been denied high school diplomas by the state. The government insists that they complete Islamic education first. Their father, Yousef More...
Iran issues prison time for Christian converts: Asghar Salehi and Mohammad Reza Rezzaei
Three Iranian converts were sentenced to six months in prison after receiving charges of “propaganda against the system through promoting Zionist Christianity.” They were arrested last September during a series More...
