An angry mob of Quechua-speaking Indians destroyed the only evangelical church in the remote village of Chucarasi in the Bolivian Andes on February 28 after beating a congregational elder unconscious. Villagers apparently attacked their Christian neighbors because they blamed them for a hail storm that damaged local crops.
...continue reading this storyLaw enforcement authorities in Vietnam are subjecting house church leaders who confront injustice to relentless harassment, according to sources in Ho Chi Minh City. The renewed pressure is thought to be retaliation for recent incidents where police have had to retreat from persecuting Christians because of effective local and international advocacy.
...continue reading this storyChristians in Laos have been told they will be killed if they do not give up their faith or leave their village.
...continue reading this storyEighteen families of the indigenous Huichol tribe in Tenzompa, Jalisco, Mexico, -- more than 80 adults and children, in all -- are threatened with expulsion from their homes for the “crime” of believing in the Christian gospel.
...continue reading this storyChristian leaders in India have released a joint statement in response to allegations made by the weekly newspaper Tehelka against the Christian community. In its inaugural issue on January 30 and a second issue on February 8, Tehelka claimed Christians were carrying out “the conversion agenda of U.S. President George Bush,” and using the HIV/AIDS problem as “an opportunity for evangelism.”
...continue reading this storyA Chinese house church leader is on the run from Public Security Bureau officers after his church was raided February 9.
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