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30 Chinese Christians Held by Police in Government Crackdown

02/08/2016 0 Comment

FOSHAN, Guangdong (China Aid)— Government personnel in China’s southern Guangdong province seized 30 members of a house church in early July and took them to a local station for interrogation.

On the morning of July 10, officials from the religious affairs bureau and police department interrupted Olive Tree Church’s weekly worship service and took pictures of the scene. After confiscating church property, they took 30 of the congregants to the police station for questioning, sealed the church b..

Pastor in Eastern Uganda Killed for Evangelizing Muslims, Refusing to Sell Land

01/08/2016 0 Comment

(Morning Star News) – Upset with a pastor for evangelizing and refusing to sell them land for a mosque, Muslims in eastern Uganda tied him up and killed him on Sunday (July 24), sources said.

Pastor Robert Bakulubanywa of Bubulanga Victory Church in Bubulanga village, Kibuku District, was on his way home from an evening fellowship at 8 p.m. when a band of Muslims killed him near his house, sources told Morning Star News. He was 38.

“They grabbed him, then tied him up and cut him with very shar..

India: Three Christians severely beaten by suspected Hindu extremists

22/07/2016 0 Comment

Three Christians were subject to a brutal attack in central India after being questioned about their faith.

More than 50 suspected Hindu extremists turned on student Umesh Patel, his father Sudhama Patel and a family friend Kiran Vishwakarma for practising Christianity. The Patels' house was destroyed and the three men are in a serious condition after the attack on July 17.

Christians gather to appeal to Hindus to stop persecuting them and for the Indian government to crack down on..

Nigeria: 200 Muslims storm and destroy Catholic church

18/07/2016 0 Comment

The Christian Association of Nigeria has condemned the Muhammadu Buhari administration over increasing violence against non-Muslims

A group of several hundred Muslim youths have stormed and destroyed a Catholic church in Nigeria, days after a female pastor was hacked to death and a week after the similarly brutal killing of another, male evangelical pastor.

The latest attack came on St Philip's Catholic Parish, Baki Iku, close to Zuma Rock in Niger State, where worshippers ..

Imprisoned Iranian Christian convert refuses to end hunger strike

14/07/2016 0 Comment

The family of an Iranian Christian convert imprisoned for her faith are fearing for her life after she refused to end her hunger strike.

Iranian Christian Convert Maryam Naghash Zargaran is serving a four-year sentence in Evin Prison for practising her Christian faith in Iran.

Maryam Naghash Zargaran has pledged to continue her protest until she is released from prison.

Speaking to the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, Zargaran's mother, Zahra Pour-Nouhi Langroudi,..

Bishops warn against growing persecution of Christians in Iran

07/07/2016 0 Comment

Persecution of Christians in Iran is bad and getting worse, bishops say in a new protest.

Nearly 80 church leaders from the UK and US have backed a powerful call to action against the Iranian theocratic regime, a year after Western powers lifted economic sanctions on the Islamic state. They urged their governments to demand improvements in how Christians and other persecuted minorities are treated.

Flickr / Maryam RajaviLast year's Free Iran demonstration attracted thousands to protest ag..

Christian woman found dead in Indian jungle ‘was threatened by relatives over faith’

07/07/2016 0 Comment

Samjeera, 20, was found dead in the Indian jungle on 14 June. Her local pastor says she received death threats from relatives over her growing Christian faith

A Christian young woman who appears to have died in an Indian jungle is the suspected victim of a faith-related murder, according to local Christians and the charity Open Doors.

The 20-year-old, known as Samjheera, was found dead in a jungle near where she lived in Dumra, Latehar District in Jharkhand on 14 June.

Her pastor Ph..

Christian mother beaten and gang-raped in front of her 5 kids by Muslims in Pakistan ‘honour’ attack

03/07/2016 0 Comment

A Muslim mob attacks a Christian home in Pakistan.

This Christian mother didn't do any harm to anybody but still she suffered an intensely painful, humiliating, shocking and unwarranted punishment: being beaten and gang-raped in front of her five children by a group of Muslim men in Pakistan.

Samrah Badal fell victim to a Muslim man who was seeking to avenge his family's “honour” after the woman's sister fell in love and eloped with the man's brother who belonged to ..

Indian Police Threaten to Fine Christians Attacked by Hindu Extremists

29/06/2016 0 Comment

NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – A month after a crowd of village Hindus in Jharkhand state, India summoned 25 Christians, tied up six of them and beat them with sticks, some of the assailants ran into one of the Christians and asked if he was still worshiping Christ.

The Hindu extremists in Hunter village, Palamu District came across Gunni Bhuiya on June 14 on an area road. Bhuiya told them he still believed in and worshipped Christ, and the Hindu extremists manhandled him and threatened to kil..

Chinese Official Threatens to Skin Christian Alive After Taking Land

28/06/2016 0 Comment

NANYANG, Henan (China Aid) — “I’ll skin you alive if you dare to complain again,” an official told a Christian in China’s central Henan province as a demolition team reclaimed his property on June 12.

A gang hired by government officials seized a three-acre soybean field on June 12 belonging to Bai Fengju, a local Christian, in order to build a Buddhist temple on the site. A week earlier, they forcibly took the land only to later return it, offer him 2,000 Yuan (U.S. $304) in compensation and p..