Persecuted Christians

26/06/2024

https://morningstarnews.org/2024/06/shattered-widow-of-christian-lynched-in-pakistan-dies/

Not a day passed when Allah Rakhi Bibi would not cry for her husband Nazeer Masih Gill, beaten to death at 74 by a Muslim mob on a false blasphemy accusation a month ago.

26/06/2024

Daniel Ortega’s objective is to cancel Nicaragua’s civil society including churches that refuse to be subservient to the regime.

25/06/2024

https://bitterwinter.org/street-evangelist-chen-wensheng-sentenced-again/

He received a comparatively mild sentence (one year and seven months) but the authorities’s strategy is to keep arresting him (he was arrested more than 100 times).

25/06/2024

https://morningstarnews.org/2024/06/blasphemy-law-wielded-against-christian-in-pakistan/

Police in Pakistan on Sunday (June 23) arrested a Christian under blasphemy laws as part of his siblings’ effort to retaliate against him over a property dispute, sources said.

25/06/2024

Russian propaganda that Vladimir Putin is ‘protecting Christianity’ against Satanism flies in the face of reliable reports from numerous sources of the ruthless persecution of Christians.

21/06/2024

The coalition led by prime minister Narendra Modi still has a majority but failed in its expectations after losing 67 seats. “For many Christians, the loss brings a sense of relief”.

21/06/2024

https://bitterwinter.org/guangxi-propaganda-against-cults-and-illegal-religion-enters-corporations/

The Wuzhou headquarters of Guangxi Zhaoxin Pingzhou Electronics hosted a pilot program of intensive indoctrination.

20/06/2024

https://youtu.be/fJYuj6_F484?si=2QtHI1fehewLN2J0

In 2020, a man from a Christian background in Kenya converted to Islam. Unfortunately for his wife and three children, who remained Christian, the pressure t...

19/06/2024

https://morningstarnews.org/2024/06/christian-in-pakistan-jailed-for-stepping-on-papers-in-street/

A Catholic has been jailed under blasphemy charges since April 27 in Lahore, Pakistan for inadvertently stepping out of his rickshaw onto some papers said to be pages of the Quran, sources said.

17/06/2024

https://morningstarnews.org/2024/06/bail-granted-to-suspects-in-killing-of-christian-in-pakistan/

Due to sloppy police investigation and pressure from an Islamist extremist party, a judge last week granted bail to at least 52 Muslims accused of killing a Christian man over a false blasphemy accusation, sources said.

15/06/2024

Christianity is being "marginalised" in the UK and those who profess the Christian faith are "regarded with contempt", a new report has warned.

14/06/2024

Despite Parliament's rejection on 6 June of a Religion Law amendment that would have imposed tighter financial reporting by registered religious organisations, work on a similar amendment continues. Deputy Ulan Primov – who is promoting such tighter controls – has not answered Forum 18's questio...

14/06/2024

https://morningstarnews.org/2024/06/five-christian-sanitation-workers-die-in-pakistan/

Five Christian sanitation workers in Pakistan have died since Tuesday (June 11) from inhaling toxic gases, highlighting how they are forced to work without proper safety equipment, sources said.

13/06/2024

https://morningstarnews.org/2024/06/abducted-young-mother-in-pakistan-refuses-forced-conversion/

A young Catholic mother’s eyes welled up with tears and her hands shook as she recalled how a Muslim in Pakistan kidnapped her and tried to force her to convert to Islam and marry him.

13/06/2024

https://morningstarnews.org/2024/06/massive-rally-in-pakistan-backs-killing-of-christian/

n the wake of a mob lynching a Christian falsely accused of defiling the Quran in Pakistan, Islamic extremists at a rally on Sunday (June 9) voiced support of the homicide and threatened others.

13/06/2024

https://bitterwinter.org/guiyang-renai-churchs-elder-zhang-chunlei-in-serious-health-conditions-in-jail/

He has been detained for more than three years without being sentenced. He suffers from liver cirrhosis and should be released immediately.

12/06/2024

https://bitterwinter.org/uscirf-condemns-violence-against-christians-in-pakistan/

Nazir Gil Masih, lynched by a mob in Sargodha, died in the hospital. The situation is no longer tolerable, the American commission says.

11/06/2024

https://morningstarnews.org/2024/06/muslim-employer-in-pakistan-tortures-christian-worker-to-death/

A Muslim factory owner in Pakistan on Thursday (June 6) tortured to death an 18-year-old Catholic worker for leaving the job against his wishes, family members said.

11/06/2024

https://morningstarnews.org/2024/06/islamic-extremists-kill-three-christians-in-northeast-nigeria/

Suspected Islamic extremist militants on Wednesday (June 5) killed three Christians and kidnapped another after intercepting them on a highway in northeast Nigeria, Christian leaders said.

11/06/2024

A surge in religious extremism in Manipur, India, have led to severe religious persecution against the Kuki Christian community. Over 200 Christians have been killed, and numerous villages, houses, and churches have been destroyed, resulting in significant displacement and hardship. The violence has...

11/06/2024

https://www.christianpost.com/news/protestant-christians-in-turkey-facing-violence-attacks.html

Protestant Christians in Turkey continued to face opposition for practicing their faith in 2023, according to a rights report

11/06/2024

https://www.christianpost.com/news/christian-mother-children-ordered-by-court-to-convert-to-islam.html?utm_source=Freedom%20Post&utm_campaign=Freedom%20Post&utm_medium=newsletter

In a controversial ruling, an Iraqi court has decreed that a Christian mother, Elvin Joseph, along with her three children, convert to Islam The decision was based on the interpretation of Iraq s ...

11/06/2024

https://bitterwinter.org/chengdu-early-rain-church-member-detained-for-commemorating-tiananmen/

Fu Lijun cautiously posted only music and a prayer on June 4. It was enough to go to jail.

11/06/2024

https://morningstarnews.org/2024/06/priest-kidnapped-in-kaduna-state-nigeria/

Armed “Muslim bandits” abducted a Roman Catholic Church priest in the early hours of Sunday (June 9), in Kaduna state, Nigeria, sources said.

11/06/2024

https://morningstarnews.org/2024/06/pastor-wife-and-three-other-christians-slain-in-nigeria/

Suspected Fulani herdsmen killed a pastor, his wife and three other Christians at about midnight on June 2 in Plateau state, central Nigeria, sources said.

07/06/2024

https://morningstarnews.org/2024/06/mentally-ill-catholic-woman-jailed-on-blasphemy-charge-in-pakistan/

A 60-year-old Catholic woman who has been treated for mental illness was jailed on blasphemy charges this week in Lahore, Pakistan, her son said.

07/06/2024

https://morningstarnews.org/2024/06/pastors-ordeal-shows-challenge-christian-leaders-face-in-india/

Pastor Josemon Pathrose spent nearly all of February in jail and finally got his confiscated vehicle back after four months. The harassment and criminal charges he’s endured at the hands of Hindu extremists are not uncommon in India.

07/06/2024

After a year in Russian detention, the "espionage" criminal trial of Ukrainian Orthodox priest Kostiantyn Maksimov is due to begin on 6 June. If convicted, the 41-year-old faces prison of 10 to 12 years. He is being held in Investigation Prison No. 2 in Simferopol. A Protestant in her fifties also f...