North Korea arrested twenty-three Christians who were meeting in an underground church. Three of which immediately tried and given the death penalty, which was swiftly executed. The others were sent to labor camps, Worthy News has learned.
...continue reading this storyAn influential Chinese house church pastor was briefly detained in southern China shortly after authorities evicted his congregation from a hotel, his church and rights investigators said Friday, August 13.
...continue reading this storyTwo Muslims have been sentenced to five years imprisonment by a Malaysian court for torching a Protestant church, Worthy News has learned on August 13.
...continue reading this storyAn impoverished Christian family in Pakistan faced uncertainty Thursday, August 12, after a Muslim cleric pledged to withdraw a case of blasphemy against them, officials familiar with the procedures said.
...continue reading this storyAl-Shabaab, an Islamic militant organization with close ties to al-Qaeda, recently banned three Christian Aid organizations from Somalia on charges of "actively propagating Christianity", Worthy News has learned.
...continue reading this storyLast September, a mob of over 200 men led by Chinese Communist officials injured at least thirty people and demolished a Christian-owned factory in Linfen, along with its house church, Worthy News learned on August 11.
...continue reading this storyHundreds of Muslim militants surrounded and attacked a Protestant church in Indonesia’s province of West Java, injuring at least a dozen Christians including a pastor on Sunday, August 8.
...continue reading this storyPolice in Uzbekistan jailed ten Baptists for three to five days, and fining them 80 times the monthly minimum wage, according to a religious rights group, Worthy News learned on Monday, August 9.
...continue reading this storySix American and two European aid workers were murdered in northern Afghanistan along with two Afghan colleagues as they were returning to Kabul from a medical mission in a remote mountainous area, Worthy News learned on Sunday, August 8.
...continue reading this storyRights investigators expressed concerns Monday, July 26, about the plight of a jailed American Christian in North Korea, while U.S.and South Korean warships practiced anti-submarine maneuvers off the Korean peninsula to warn Pyongyang against aggression.
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