A pastor’s wife who miscarried after a neighbour attacked her was due to facing a Cuban court Monday, August 17, on charges of “disturbing the public order” on that day, an international advocacy group said.
...continue reading this storyTwenty men, most of them evangelical Christians, were free Friday, August 14, after spending more than a decade in prison as Mexico’s Supreme Court overturned their sentences in a massacre in southern Chiapas state.
...continue reading this storyThere was international concern Tuesday, July 14, over the detention of a Cuban Evangelical pastor, after news emerged he has been sentenced to six years in prison on charges that include “counter-revolutionary conduct and attitudes” as part of what rights investigators called “mounting state hostility towards religious groups.”
...continue reading this storyA professor at the government-funded University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) has prohibited a graduating student from saying “I want to thank my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ,” in her own graduation speech, amid a heated debate over using that name in public across the United States, BosNewsLife monitored Wednesday, June 3.
...continue reading this storyThe young family of a missing evangelical pastor in Colombia was still waiting Wednesday, March 25, for Colombian authorities to launch an official investigation into his disappearance six months ago, amid concerns he may be the latest victim of violence against Christian leaders in the South American country.
...continue reading this storyThe sprawling First Baptist Church in the U.S. state of Illinois was without a pastor Monday, March 9, after he was shot and later died of his injuries.
...continue reading this storyA prominent evangelical church leader in Cuba will be put on trial next week and is facing a one-year prison sentence as part of what his supporters call “a government campaign to silence and discredit him,” because of his refusal to work with the state-backed church organization, a Christian advocacy group confirmed Saturday, December 27.
...continue reading this storyAs the number of evangelical Christians in southern Mexico has grown, hostilities from “traditionalist Catholics” have kept pace, according to published reports.
...continue reading this storyChristians in Colombia were still searching for a Christian leader Wednesday, November 12, more than six weeks after he disappeared amid reports that several fellow pastors were killed by leftist rebels.
...continue reading this storyChristians in Colombia are anxious to learn the fate of pastor William Reyes, missing since Sept. 25, even as three other pastors have gone missing.
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