Authorities in Laos have detained or arrested at least 90 Christians in three provinces in recent weeks, including an arrest last Sunday (Aug. 3) of a pastor and two other believers from a house church in Boukham village, Savannakhet province.
...continue reading this storyOne year after the first attempt by an Egyptian Muslim convert to Christianity to change his religious identity, another convert this week became the second to make such a controversial legal request.
...continue reading this storyLocal Pakistani police declared the death of a young Christian man in May to be a suicide requiring no investigation, but a high inspector has reopened the case and taken two Muslim suspects into custody.
...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 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 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 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 storyAn Iranian Christian couple in their 60s died last week from injuries sustained when secret police raided a house church service hosted at their house and severely beat them, a source told Compass.
...continue reading this storyMuslim militants raided and destroyed a 'house church' in Bangladesh as part of an operation to expel Christians from the region, a group representing the believers said Tuesday, August 5.
...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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