Retired missionary of the Christian radio network HCJB World Radio, Gustavo Molina, and his daughter Kathy were among five Ecuadorian tourists wounded Wednesday when a gunman opened fire on the group at the Israel-Jordan border near Israel's Red Sea resort of Eilat, a Christian station said Friday, Nov 21.
...continue reading this storySeven months after the newly constructed Diyarbakir Evangelical Church opened in southeast Turkey, a local council under the Ministry of Culture and Tourism has again protested against the building’s use as a place of worship.
...continue reading this storyTwo major hurdles face evangelical churches in Turkey: lack of trained leadership and suitable buildings. A Turkish church planter says conditions are now right to do something about both.
...continue reading this storySince the armed attack on indigenous Mexican evangelicals in the southern province of Chiapas in 1995, the situation has not changed in favor of the persecuted Christians. (Pictured: Indian Christian woman and her child in Chiapas).
...continue reading this storyInformation has been pouring out of Vietnam about a recent wave of government repression against Montagnard evangelicals in Vietnam’s Central Highlands.
...continue reading this storyBaptist Christians in Kazakstan are pressured to no longer express their faith in Christ publicly while their leader is facing possible jail time for refusing to stop bible study meetings in his home, reports said Monday, November 11.
...continue reading this storyA Baptist church in Azerbaijan is threatened with demolition amid growing concern about wide spread violence and persecution of Christians across the former Soviet Union, news reports said Friday November 8.
...continue reading this storyThe Full Gospel Union of Pentecostal churches in Belarus has said it will defy what human rights groups call "Europe's most repressive religion law" because it "violates the law of God," news reports said late Tuesday, November 5.
...continue reading this storyThe letter outlines inconsistencies between the way the retrial was handled by judges of the Jingmen City Middle Court and the mandates of China's criminal court statutes. "The families of all the victims feel deeply sad and worried about the result," the letter states. Complete text of the letter is available on the VOM web site at www.persecution.com.
...continue reading this storyIn a move expected to further isolate isolate the former Soviet Republic underground , Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko signed Europe's "most restrictive religious law," Thursday October 31, the Keston News Service (KNS) said.
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