Iraq was named Wednesday, January 3, as the world's "second-worst persecutor of Christians" after North Korea in an influential report expected to underscore concern about sectarian violence in the war-torn county.
...continue reading this storyThere was concern Wednesday, January 3, about reports that at least nearly a million impoverished men, women and children, most of them Christians, have been "illegally enslaved" on the outskirts of Pakistan's major cities and towns.
...continue reading this storyDevoted Christians in India's northern state of Himachal Pradesh, including missionary workers and church leaders, ushered in the New Year Monday, January 1, amid fears of persecution after law makers introduced legislation banning "forced" religious conversions.
...continue reading this storyTraumatized Christian Degar Montagnards in Vietnam's Central Highlands were preparing for a difficult New Year on Thursday, December 28, after security forces arrested believers in several villages and raped at least one 11-year old girl in the region, local Christians said.
...continue reading this storyChinese security forces have raided a house church in Beijing to prevent it from holding Christmas season worship services while re-arresting an influential house church leader, a religious rights group said Thursday, December 28.
...continue reading this storyEvangelical Christians in central and eastern India were recovering from injuries Wednesday, December 27, after Hindu militants attacked them for singing Christmas carols while elsewhere a church was completely destroyed, Christian leaders said.
...continue reading this storyMost, if not all, eight prominent house church Christians in China's eastern Zhejiang province prepared to spend Christmas behind bars Saturday, December 23, after they were sentenced to prison sentences of up to 3.5 years, fellow believers said.
...continue reading this storyA court in Havana has found the Rev. Carlos Lamelas not guilty of “trafficking in human beings†but convicted him on previously unannounced charges of falsification of documents.
...continue reading this storyHindu extremists launched two known attacks against Christians this week, beating a couple in the northern state of Haryana yesterday and assaulting pastor in the central state of Chhattisgarh on Sunday (December 17).
...continue reading this storyChinese police and an angry mob raided the home of a key house church missionary in Beijing and detained about a dozen believers after beating them and destroying furniture, family and investigators said Thursday, December 21.
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