As part of President Daniel Ortega’s long-term crackdown on religious leaders, authorities in Nicaragua have now convicted 11 Protestant pastors on apparently trumped-up money laundering charges, sentencing them to jail sentences of 12-15 years in prison and an $80 million fine each.
...continue reading this storyAn international Christian aid organization which runs a hospital, school, and church in Haiti narrowly escaped a massacre of its staff when armed gang members tried to shoot their way into its operational compound, CBN News reports.
...continue reading this storyA new report shows that the government of Cuba continued an intensifying crackdown on religious freedom, and Christianity in particular, in 2023. Published on Mar. 14, the report was compiled by the UK-based Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW) advocacy organization.
...continue reading this storyTwo U.S. missionaries remained trapped in Haiti on Friday, some two weeks after a gang uprising began seeking the ouster of the troubled Caribbean nation’s prime minister.
...continue reading this storyemale prisoners at a jail in Nicaragua have been brutalized by staff after praying out loud, Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW) reports. Ruled by a dictatorial communist regime that is hostile to Christians, Nicaragua ranks 30TH on the US Open Doors World Watch List 2024 of the top 50 countries where Christians are persecuted.
...continue reading this storyAs Haiti continues to struggle under the brutal grip of lawless gangs who have now succeeded in pressuring President Ariel Henry to resign, a Catholic archbishop is warning that churchgoers in the small Caribbean state are being abducted at an alarming rate, the Christian Post (CP) reports.
...continue reading this storyAttacks against American churches have skyrocketed over the last decade due to growing anti-Christian sentiments in the United States, says a leading research and advocacy group in a new report.
...continue reading this storyAn American missionary has met with senior officials at the US State Department in an effort to secure the release of 11 pastors imprisoned in Nicaragua on trumped up charges of money laundering and organized crime, CBN News reports. Britt Hancock of the US-based Mountain Gateway missionary organization made his recent appeal to lawmakers in Washington even as he himself also faces criminal charges in the matter.
...continue reading this storyNicaragua’s Attorney General has charged three US missionaries and 11 Nicaraguan pastors with money laundering and organized crime, months after the Christians led large Gospel outreaches in the country, CBN News reports.
...continue reading this storyUS Baptist evangelists have reported that nearly 5,000 people responded to a call to follow Jesus Christ during a recent missionary trip they led in Cuba, CBN News reports.
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