Tue, 08 Jul 2008 02:38:00 -0400
A key member and missionary of an unofficial ‘house church’ in China’s Heilongjiang Province faced difficulties Monday, July 7, to worship with fellow believers after Chinese security forces briefly detained him and two co-workers, representatives said.
Fri, 04 Jul 2008 02:20:00 -0400
After four weeks in police custody, Iranian Christian Mohsen Namvar was released "temporarily" last week to return to his home in Tehran.
Fri, 04 Jul 2008 02:18:00 -0400
A court in western Algeria convicted two Muslim converts to Christianity yesterday for illegally spreading their faith.
Wed, 02 Jul 2008 04:03:00 -0400
At least 36 Christian families whose houses were burned during Christmas season violence in Orissa’s Kandhamal district have been evicted from their damaged homes.
Wed, 02 Jul 2008 04:01:00 -0400
A series of death threats against a pastor in a working-class Medellín neighborhood prompted him to abandon his home and ministry last month and flee with his family to Colombia’s capital.
Tue, 01 Jul 2008 01:32:00 -0400
Chinese security forces raided a house church at a coal mine in China’s Gansu Province and detained several Christians as part of a crackdown on unauthorized worship services in the Communist nation, a Christian rights group said Monday, June 30.
Mon, 30 Jun 2008 02:04:00 -0400
In several former Soviet republics Christians were detained or facing their last worship service in their church building Sunday, June 29, as authorities stepped up a crackdown on mainly Protestant Christians, including believers involved in evangelism or unauthorized gatherings.
Mon, 30 Jun 2008 02:02:00 -0400
Seven arrested Christian missionaries, including an unknown number of Americans, apparently remained detained in Yemen Sunday, June 29, and there was international concern they may face torture for spreading Christianity, several sources said.
Mon, 30 Jun 2008 02:00:00 -0400
Buddhist militants in Sri Lanka are stepping up attacks on Christian pastors and churches across Sri Lanka, rights investigators said Friday, June 27.
Wed, 25 Jun 2008 04:46:00 -0400
An evangelical pastor in eastern Sri Lankia was receiving treatment in hospital Tuesday, June 24, a day after he was attacked by militant government forces because of his Christian activities, local believers and investigators said.
Wed, 25 Jun 2008 04:44:00 -0400
Local authorities accompanied by an Islamist mob attempted to demolish two buildings in a church compound used by three congregations in Jatimulya village, West Java province on June 14.
Tue, 24 Jun 2008 03:30:00 -0400
The Washington-DC based human rights group, International Christian Concern (ICC) www.persecution.org has just learned that 16 Christians were kidnapped at gunpoint in Peshawar, Pakistan on June 21, 2008, and have since been released.
Mon, 23 Jun 2008 02:49:00 -0400
A frail prominent Chinese house church leader and Christian bookstore owner already detained for three months remained in a Chinese prison Sunday, June 22, after a court hearing was unexpectedly cancelled, Chinese Christians said.
Thu, 19 Jun 2008 03:37:00 -0400
Muslim fundamentalists in a village 192 kilometers (119 miles) north of the capital have threatened to kill a pastor as part of an effort to keep his church from constructing a church building, according to the head of the Isha-e-Jamat Bangladesh (Jesus’ Church) denomination.
Thu, 19 Jun 2008 03:36:00 -0400
Buddhist extremists have invited residents of Middeniya, a town in Hambanthota district, southern Sri Lanka, to attend a huge anti-Christian rally this Sunday (June 22), where they have promised to "expose the great [Christian] conspiracy."
Thu, 19 Jun 2008 03:34:00 -0400
Christian bookstore owner Shi Weihan, detained in a Chinese prison without his medication for diabetes, is due in court Thursday (June 19) to face as yet unspecified charges.
Thu, 19 Jun 2008 03:33:00 -0400
The president of the Chinese House Church Alliance, a major umbrella group of underground churches, has been detained along with his interpreter while on his way to meet a senior European Union official, fellow Christian workers said.
Thu, 19 Jun 2008 03:31:00 -0400
An evangelical pastor in Turkey faced a possible jail term Wednesday, June 18, just days after a prosecutor began investigating him on charges that included to blasphemy against Islam, Christian rights investigators said.
Wed, 18 Jun 2008 03:28:00 -0400
Convicted of blasphemy and evangelism in two separate cases this year, an Algerian Christian goes on trial in west Algeria for a third time tomorrow, again for evangelism.
Mon, 16 Jun 2008 03:23:00 -0400
Amid reported death threats and violence against Iraq’s Christian minority, a mission group has managed to open a third Christian school in Iraq as part of government-backed reconciliation efforts, BosNewsLife monitored Saturday, June 14.