A German evangelical development worker who was kidnapped at gunpoint from a restaurant in the Afghan capital Kabul has been freed, her organization and Afghan officials confirmed Monday, August 20.
...continue reading this storyTurkish police reportedly released an American Christian from prison late Friday, April 27, after he and three other evangelists were detained in Istanbul this week for charges that included "missionary activity" and "insulting Islam."
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There was increased concern Thursday, April 26, about the plight of active Christians in Turkey after investigators revealed that three evangelical believers were "satanically tortured" last week before being killed.
In a gruesome assault against Turkey’s tiny Christian community, five young Muslim Turks entered a Christian publishing office in the southeastern province of Malatya yesterday (April 18) and slit the throats of the three Protestant Christians present.
...continue reading this storyAssailants on Turkey’s Black Sea coast vandalized a Protestant church this weekend, days after nationalists from the region murdered a well-known Armenian journalist.
...continue reading this storyTurkish President Ahmet Necdet Sezer has blocked a key piece of reform legislation passed last month to broaden religious freedoms in Turkey.
...continue reading this storyUnidentified assailants hurled six Molotov cocktails at a Protestant place of worship in western Turkey last Saturday (November 4), breaking windows and inflicting minor damages on the exterior of the building.
...continue reading this storyA Turkish prosecutor slapped criminal charges against two converts to Christianity earlier this month, accusing them of “insulting Turkishness,†inciting hatred against Islam and secretly compiling data on private citizens for a local Bible correspondence course.
...continue reading this storyEight organizations supporting persecuted churches have urged Christians worldwide to pray for 200 million Christians who they claim suffer "interrogation, arrest and even death for their faith in Christ."
...continue reading this storyFor over 200 days an evangelical congregation in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia has been providing "church asylum" to a Vietnamese Christian amid fears he may be deported by local German authorities, news reports said Sunday, September 3.
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