As China prepared for the opening of the Beijing Olympic Games Friday, August 8, a key Chinese house church leader and his wife remained detained amid signs government leaders fear Christians will use the event to highlight reports of religious persecution.
...continue reading this storyFour Gospel for Asia missionaries being held in a Karnataka, India, jail were released Friday after spending more than a week there. They are now being taken to a hospital for medical treatment.
...continue reading this storyThe three Christians arrested in China yesterday have arrived safely in the United States after being deported for speaking out about oppression in China.
...continue reading this storyChinese police detained house church leader Zhang Mingxuan, along with his wife Xie Fenlang and co-pastor Wu Jiang He, at a police station in Hebei after a BBC journalist attempted to interview him on Monday (August 4).
...continue reading this storyThe pastor of a Full Gospel Church of God (FGCB) congregation and his wife remained detained Wednesday, August 6, in India’s state of Madhya Pradesh on changes of “forced conversion,” church members and investigators told BosNewsLife.
...continue reading this storyThree American Christian leaders were deported from China Thursday, August 7, after being arrested for the second time in as many days for publicly praying and protesting against China’s “religious persecution”, the “policy of forced abortion” and other alleged civil rights abuses, family members said.
...continue reading this storyHindu Radicals stormed into a Christian School demanding that the Cross on the school uniform be replaced with a Hindu logo.
...continue reading this storyHindu radicals attacked worshipers attending a Christian meeting.
...continue reading this storyHindu radicals recently attacked some Christian students in India.
...continue reading this storyAs U.S. President George W. Bush attends Olympic events in Beijing this week and a church service in the capital next Sunday, Chinese authorities have banished house church pastor Zhang Mingxuan from the city for the duration of the Games. Several other Christians remain in detention or face ongoing harassment.
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