Chinese Christians are not safe worshipping in their own homes as Communist officials begin brutal campaign to destroy their dwellings. International Christian Concern (ICC) reported this week that local Communist authorities descended ...
Read More »China kidnapping Christian children, threatening parents with forced labor
China is now kidnapping children from Christian parents. The actions are part of an increased campaign of terror waged on China’s Christian minority. Human rights activists and church members say parents are ...
Read More »Turkey scapegoats Christians for coronavirus
Christians have become the scapegoat for Turkey’s growing coronavirus outbreak. Christians and other religious minorities are being falsely accused of bringing COVID-19 to Turkey where a series of attacks on churches is ...
Read More »Standing with a church under siege
For at least a decade, Christians in several African nations have endured extreme persecution and violence from militants and extremists seeking political control. Current reports note renewed attacks in Mali, Nigeria and ...
Read More »Genocide in Nigeria: Calling it what it Is, calling for it to end
In terms of lives lost, families separated, people imprisoned, and churches shut down, the 21st century has, so far, been the worst period of persecution against Christians in recorded history. Among the hottest ...
Read More »President Trump encourages Coptic Christians amid Egyptian persecution
On June 1, 2020, President Trump issued a statement titled “Presidential Message on Global Coptic Day, 2020.” (Copts are Egypt’s indigenous Christians, now a minority.) After sending his “best wishes” to the ...
Read More »Missions: Zahra found refuge in a safe house after converting from Islam
Once again, Zahra’s father lashed ropes around her wrists and hands and hung her in the doorway. The young woman’s fingers went numb. Her hands and her arms swelled. There was a ...
Read More »Pompeo, Brownback focus on China and ‘decades-long war on faith’
Religious persecution in China has intensified over the past year as the regime continues with its “decades-long war on faith,” Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on June 10 while presenting his ...
Read More »Kenyan man loses all after refusing Muslim demands to renounce Jesus
After converting to Christianity, Yasin Bakari, a father of two living in coastal Kenya, fears that he will be killed. He heard the Gospel in March and was moved enough to abandon ...
Read More »Christians in Nigeria: Almost 700 slaughtered by Fulani militias this year
Christian women, children, the elderly, disabled and men continue to die by the hundreds across northern Nigeria at the hands of Muslim Fulani terrorists. A new report from Nigeria details the latest ...
Read More »Fulani Islamists slaughter Nigerian children at home from lockdown
As Fulani militants murder children in Nigeria, Release International is calling on the African country to protect its Christian minority in the north. The charity reports Fulani Islamists continue to carry out attacks against ...
Read More »Print On Demand is revolutionizing Wycliffe and Bible distribution
In many parts of the world, giving out Bibles will get you tortured – or worse. That’s also true for Wycliffe Bible translators working to give people a Bible in their own ...
Read More »Every day, at least 4 Nigerian Christians die for following Christ
“It has been so difficult. I am suffering with my children … you can’t stop remembering and feeling the pain,” states Victoria, a Nigerian Christian. For Victoria, that pain began the day ...
Read More »Good news for Sudan’s Christians and their churches
Sudan’s transitional government has abolished committees formed under the Islamist regime of former President Omar al-Bashir that were used to take over hundreds of churches and other Christian property. Nasreldin Mofreh, Sudan’s Minister ...
Read More »Nigerians mourn 350 Christians killed since January 1
Christian Nigerians have buried 350 of their fellow church-goers just in the first two months of 2020. The Nigerian Civil Society Organization reports that’s how many Christian believers have been murdered across ...
Read More »Iranian Christian faces deportation back to Iran after failing Bible quiz
After missing several questions on a Bible quiz administered by a British judge, an Iranian Christian faces deportation and possible torture. The 38-year-old Christian convert’s appeal was earlier rejected because he wasn’t ...
Read More »Muslim Judge on kidnapped Christian girl: ‘Unable to treat Christians as Pakistani Citizens’
A Pakistan high court has handed down a ruling based on Islamic “sharia” law that says men in Pakistan can marry underage girls as long as they have had their first menstrual ...
Read More »Chinese communists now banning Christian funerals
Even in death, Chinese Christians are being humiliated as Communist authorities ban Christian funerals. According to a report in the Chinese watchdog organization Bitter Winter, communist officials are arresting family members and ...
Read More »New Communist rules in effect Feb. 1 further strangle Chinese religious minorities
Christians and other religious groups will face “harsh” new rules Feb. 1 in China. The regulations were announced in late 2019 and religious freedom advocates say they’ll further endanger followers of many ...
Read More »Students talk to President about religious discrimination
While it was virtually ignored in the news this week, students, teachers, coaches and religious freedom activists with diverse faith backgrounds visited the White House to talk about religious discrimination and intimidation. ...
Read More »Violence against Christians increasing around the world, Open Doors reports
Worldwide violence against Christians is on the rise, according to the Open Doors World Watch List released this week. Among the most shocking violence-related data disclosed was a report citing that more ...
Read More »Nigerian Christian bride and bridesmaids killed on way to wedding
One of the cruelest and most horrific incidents of Nigerian Christians being attacked and murdered by Muslim extremists is coming to light. The latest news reveals the brutal murder of a woman ...
Read More »Thirteen Nigerians murdered in latest attack on Christians
Thirteen Nigerian Christians are dead after a group of Fulani Muslim terrorists targeted their Christian village. The attack took place last week and news of the atrocity is just now making it ...
Read More »World Evangelical Alliance equates US with Iran, gets pushback from Christians
Is the US the same as the rogue regime of Iran which kills thousands of its citizens each year? That’s seems to be the message from the World Evangelical Alliance (WEA). The ...
Read More »New ‘loyalty’ crackdown on Chinese Christians
The new year rang in yet more new worries for Chinese Christians after the Chinese regime announced it will soon require all religious personnel of any faith to support total submission to ...
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