Tag: persecution

By Keith & Candace Malcomson Many who once lived behind the old Iron Curtain but who now reside in ‘free’ western countries, have sounded an alarm. Are we listening? For…

International News by Andrew Halloway The Chinese regime’s new security restrictions on Hong Kong have made Christians in the city afraid for the future. China has effectively stripped Hong Kong…

A Christian street preacher in Trondheim, Norway, was abducted, beaten, robbed and threatened with death if he didn’t convert to Islam. Four Muslim men asked Roar Fløttum to pray for…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

“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…

Officials in western Burma (Myanmar) have forced three Christians to become Buddhists, according to Morning Star News. Firstly, in May, two ethnic Chin Christians, a pastor and member of his…