by Publisher | Dec 30, 2015 | News, Sudan
Head of discipleship for embattled North Khartoum church held without charges. JUBA, South Sudan (Morning Star News) – The head of discipleship at a North Khartoum, Sudan church has been arrested, sources said. Agents of Sudan’s National Intelligence and Security...
by Publisher | Dec 29, 2015 | Analysis, Burma (Myanmar), Central Asia, China, Eritrea, Front Page Analysis, India, Iran, Iraq, Kenya, Laos, Nepal, Nigeria, North Korea, Tanzania, Vietnam |
Release International is warning that the flight of faith witnessed in 2015 is set to continue into 2016, as Christian refugees are driven out of their communities and countries because of their religious beliefs. ‘This flight of faith is a growing trend around the...
by Publisher | Dec 29, 2015 | Analysis, Pakistan |
Christians in the Pakistani capital, Islamabad, are facing eviction from their homes, after the Capital Development Authority went to the country’s highest court to request the demolition of the slums in which many of them reside. The majority of the residents of...
by Publisher | Dec 28, 2015 | Analysis, Indonesia, News
President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo on 23rd Dec promised a safe Christmas celebration throughout Indonesia. It’s the world’s most populous Muslim nation, but only one of its provinces applies sharia. Ten churches were destroyed in this province – Aceh, in...
by Publisher | Dec 27, 2015 | News, Turkey
USCIRF notes misrepresentations of Christianity. Istanbul, Turkey Morning Star News – Newly revised textbooks for schoolchildren’s mandatory religion classes in Turkey are markedly improved but still have notable shortcomings, according to a study by the U.S....
by Publisher | Dec 25, 2015 | News, Uganda
Four family members, pregnant neighbor die after eating tainted food in Uganda. NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – A pastor in eastern Uganda was hacked to death on Wednesday (Dec. 23) as he and other church members resisted an effort by Muslims to take over...
by Publisher | Dec 24, 2015 | Iraq, IS, News |
Back at home in their Nineveh Plain town of Qaraqosh, the children learnt ‘Aboun Bashmayo’, or ‘Our Father…,’ in their original Syriac tongue. Now, as refugees, they were singing ‘Forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us’. The...
by Publisher | Dec 23, 2015 | India, News
Ministry workers disparaged for their faith, severely beaten. NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – Police hostility toward Christians continued this year as officers in Tamil Nadu, India reviled two Christians for their faith and seriously injured them, sources said. The...
by Publisher | Dec 22, 2015 | Iran, News
Iranian Pastor Farshid Fathi secures early release, 6 months after being handed extra year in jail Farshid Fathi – World Watch Monitor An Iranian pastor has been released early from prison, just six months after he failed to appeal a sentence to an extra year in...
by Publisher | Dec 22, 2015 | Cuba, News
National Communist Party officials in Cuba informed the Maranatha First Baptist Church, Holguin on 21 December that the decision to expropriate the church property has been reversed. Instead, government officers told the denominational and church leadership that they...
by Publisher | Dec 21, 2015 | News, Sudan
CSW has learned that 25 Muslims are on trial in Sudan, charged with apostasy. The charges against the 22 men and three minors were confirmed by a judge at the Khartoum Criminal Court on 14 December. Although the defendants are charged with apostasy they have not...
by Publisher | Dec 21, 2015 | Blog, India |
One of the events I have helped organise with Release International was for a partner from India who was sharing about the situation in his country. It was an excellent evening during which he shared about the effects of the 2014 landslide election victory by the BJP,...
