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Tanzania: Youth pastor killed in machete attack
By Julius Mbaluto Mwanza Another Christian leader in northern Tanzania has been killed in what appears to be a targeted attack, with two other worshippers from the church badly injured. They were all...
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North Korea publicly executes 80, some for videos or Bibles, report says
By Dan Wooding North Korea Dictator Kim Jong-Un As many as 80 people were publicly executed in North Korea earlier this month, some for offenses as minor as watching South Korean movies or possessing a...
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Radical Buddhists destroy two Christian centers
A group of extremist Buddhist monks and laymen attacked two Christian religious centers in Hikkaduwa, Sri Lanka’s tourist city in the south. Buddhist organizations in Hikkaduwa staged a protest...
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Firsthand account of tragedy unfolding in Darfur
By Melissa Nordell Meme* is a government worker from another country currently working in Sudan. She “helps the natives of the land indirectly to know the truth of the...
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Kenya: Pastor dies guarding church after Muslim riots
By World Watch Monitor An assistant pastor at a church in Mombasa, Kenya was killed on Feb. 2 while guarding his church during the night. Lawrence Kazungu Kadenge, 59, assistant pastor at the Glory of...
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Machete-wielding Hindu radicals kill 500 Christians
By Mindy Belz The worst violence against Christians in the 21st century took place in India’s Orissa state at the hands of Hindu nationalists, according to testimony yesterday by leading...
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North Koreans arrest Australian Christian missionary
By Jeremy Reynalds John Short North Korea has arrested a Christian missionary from Australia, his family said on Wednesday, taking him into captivity even as it continues to face pressure to release...
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North Korea orders 33 executed who had contact with Christian missionary
By Dan Wooding Photo: Kim Jung-wook at press conference According to Britain’s Daily Mail newspaper, 33 North Koreans face execution after being charged with attempting to overthrow the repressive...
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Christian mother in Somalia beheaded in front of her daughters
International Christian Concern (ICC) has learned that a Christian mother of two and her cousin were beheaded by al-Shabaab Islamic extremists once their Christian faith was discovered. The extremists...
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Muslim relatives try to poison convert to Christianity
Hassan Muwanguz Muslim relatives of a convert from Islam in a village in eastern Uganda last week tried to poison him to death, the Christian told Morning Star News. Hassan Muwanguzi, who lost his...
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Prayers urged for 230 Christian girls kidnapped by Muslim extremists
A desperate mother cries out for her daughter, kidnapped in Nigeria (AP Photo/ Gbemiga Olamikan) By Atta Barkindo (PhD candidate, SOAS, London) Benjamin Gudaku (Eduwatch Consults and Research Centre,...
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You’d be surprised what the persecuted church asks you to pray for
By Melissa Nordell You would be very surprised at the answer when those who have been persecuted for their Christian faith around the world are asked (whether in prison, have lost family and...
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Anti-church campaign continues in China, with crosses torn down and churches...
On April 28th, Zhejiang province officials bulldozed the 4,000-seat Sanjiang Christian Church in Wenzhou City despite a weeks-long protest involving hundreds of Christian attendees who formed a human...
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Leader of Somalia’s underground church martyred for his faith
AMISOM troops from Djibouti in Beledweyne, Somalia (Morning Star News) Underground Christians in Somalia are struggling to recover from the loss of a prominent church leader gunned down in March. As in...
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1000 Christians imprisoned in Eritrea for their faith
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (R) shakes hands with Eritrean President Issaias Afeworki in Tehran in May 2008 The tiny state of Eritrea, flanked by Ethiopia on one side and the Red Sea on the...
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Meriam Ibrahim’s baby disabled because she gave birth in chains
By Jeremy Reynalds The Sudanese woman who gave birth in a Khartoum prison with her legs in chains has said that her baby daughter is disabled as a result of her treatment. Writing for...
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China: Govt. officials destroy 360 crosses in 60 days
By Sooyoung Kim, ICC Regional Manager for Southeast Asia China has launched a systematic anti-church campaign: over 360 church crosses in Zhejiang Province have been completely or partially...
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Villages in India outlaw Christianity
By Anto Akkara Several villages in central India have outlawed the open practice of Christianity – a move of questionable legality yet one that worries church leaders who say it already...
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China: 1000 Christians form human blockade to protect cross from demolition
Like many others, this Qiaosi Sunday Church in Hanzhou, China had its cross forcibly removed recently (Photo: China Aid) At 3:00 a.m. (Beijing time) on July 21, 2014, during the 32nd night vigil of...
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Muslim Iraqi News Anchorwoman Wears Cross in Support of Christians
Dalia AlAqidi An Iraqi news anchorwoman working for the Iraqi cable TV Sumaria, headquartered in Beirut, has begun wearing a cross in support of Assyrians/Christians in Mosul, Iraq. Dalia AlAqidi, a...
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