Church BULLDOZED during service
Bulldozers started demolishing the 3,000-seat Fuyang Christian Church in Fenan, Anhui province, during a worship service, while congregants were inside. Not only were no legal papers presented, but it was…
Muslim saves Christians from terrorists
A Muslim driver saved eight Christians when he refused to obey jihadist militants. The man was driving the Christians home from the building site where they worked in southern Kenya…
Russian Christian fights for right to worship at home
A Christian woman is challenging a Russian law which has resulted in her being fined for holding worship services at her home. Olga Glamozdinova from the village of Veselyi is…
Asia Bibi stands up for other ‘blasphemy’ victims
The woman imprisoned for a decade in Pakistan on false blasphemy charges, Asia Bibi, has spoken in support of other Christians imprisoned in the Islamic nation. From her new home…
Bible translator butchered in Cameroon
A Wycliffe Bible translator was hacked to death in a recent attack in Cameroon, where women’s ears have also been cut off with machetes. On 25 August, a group of…
Police investigate MP’s ‘hate crime’
A Finnish Christian MP is being investigated under hate crime legislation for quoting the Bible’s teaching on homosexuality. Christian Democrat MP Päivi Räsänen criticised the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland…
Christian leaders killed in Mexico
Drug cartels are suspected of killing a pastor and a priest in Mexico. Although the police were still unsure of the motive at the time of writing, many Christian leaders…
Six year old beaten for parents’ faith
A six-year-old girl has been viciously beaten in Vietnam because her parents converted to Christianity. The whole family were “brutally attacked”, according to Open Doors, but the little girl was…
Christian tortured to death by Pakistan police
Police in Lahore, Pakistan, have killed a young Christian father. On 28 August police officers unlawfully arrested 28-year-old Amir Masih, falsely accusing him of theft, and tortured him for four…
Government accepts persecution review in full
“Freedom of religion will be at heart of government policy” Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt and the Bishop of Truro, Rt Rev Philip Mounstephen After years of virtual silence over the…