UGANDA – Family of Assaulted Pastor Attacked Again by Area Muslims
Morning Star News | January 28, 2021 NAIROBI, Kenya – Muslim villagers on Sunday (Jan. 24) attacked the wife and children of a pastor in eastern Uganda who is still receiving…
INDIA – Christians call on NIA to release 83-year-old pastor
Christian Post | Anugrah Kumar | October 12, 2020 Church groups and civil society leaders in India are protesting against the arrest of an 83-year-old Jesuit priest by the country’s…
INDIA – Police Force Indian Pastor to Stop Worshipping at Home
Faithwire | Andrea Morris | September 22, 2020 Police in northern India told a pastor to stop worshipping inside his home and forced him to sign a document assuring that…
CHINA – Trump admin condemns imprisonment of Chinese pastor Wang Yi, calls for his release: ‘We are alarmed’
Christian Post | Leah MarieAnn Klett | Jan. 2, 2020 Pastor Wang Yi in a sermon "Waiting Together for the Day of Redemption" preached on September 9, 2018 at Early…
NIGERIA – Gunmen kidnap pastor amid spike in abductions
Nigeria: Gunmen kidnap pastor amid spike in abductions Christian Post | Samuel Smith | Dec. 20, 2019 Christians in Nigeria worship at a church in this undated file photo. |…
MYANMAR – Chin Pastor Abducted in Myanmar Released
International Christian Concern | Nov. 21, 2019 International Christian Concern (ICC) has learned that Pastor U Maung Maung, who was abducted last month along with 57 others by the Arakan…
NIGERIA – Kidnapped Nigerian pastor freed after 7-month Boko Haram abduction
Christian Post | Samuel Smith, CP Reporter | Nov. 12, 2019 A Nigerian pastor who was abducted by the Boko Haram Islamic terrorist group seven months ago was finally freed…
INDIA – U.S. Pastor Stranded in India Awaiting Hearing
Word & Way | Morning Star News correspondent | Nov. 5, 2019 Tennessee pastor Bryan Nerren, shown with his wife Rhonda and their children, is stranded in India awaiting a…
MEXICO – Commission calls for update three months after Pastor kidnapping
Premier U.K. | Nov. 4, 2019 Pastor Aarón Méndez Ruiz and Alfredo Castillo de Luna were forcibly taken from a migrant shelter in the Mexican border town of Nuevo Laredo…
INDIA / USA – Tennessee pastor arrested and stranded in India, attorney says
Tennessean | Natalie Neysa Alund and Brinley Hineman | Oct. 30, 2019 A Middle Tennessee pastor has been arrested in India and is unable to return to the U.S. due to alleged religious…
INDIA – American Pastor Arrested and Detained in India | Persecution
International Christian Concern | Oct. 29, 2019 Pastor Targeted After Telling Customs Officials He Is a Christian 10/29/2019 Washington D.C. (International Christian Concern) – International Christian Concern (ICC) learned that…
NIGERIA – Kidnapped Baptist Pastor in Nigeria Freed after 17 Days of Torture
Morning Star News | Sept. 5, 2019 Muslim Fulani herdsmen injured Baptist pastor Elisha Noma while holding him captive. (Morning Star News) JOS, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – A Baptist pastor…
CHINA – China Court Upholds 7 Year Prison Sentence Against US-based Christian Pastor
July 27, 2019 | CBN News | Andrea Morris Pastor John Cao breaks a ground on a new school in Wa State, Myanmar. The prominent Chinese pastor was detained by…
CHINA – China Adds Charge against Pastor, Coerces Christians to Accuse Him Falsely, Sources Say
July 24, 2019 | Morning Star News Early Rain Covenant Church members in Chengdu, Sichuan Province. (China Aid) Authorities in China have added “illegal business activities” to the subversion charge…
PAKISTAN – Pakistan court frees pastor charged with blasphemy
Pakistan court frees pastor charged with blasphemyJadoon Masih was allegedly badly mistreated while in custody before being granted bail Pakistani Islamists hold a poster displaying a portrait of Asia Bibi,…
BURKINA FASO – They Had Just Gathered for Worship—Another Church Attack Kills 6 in Burkina Faso
OPEN DOORS USA | Lindy Lowry | May 14, 2019 Mirroring the April 28 attack in which gunmen executed a pastor and five congregants after a worship service in Burkina…
UGANDA – Christian Mother, Pastor Fear for their Lives after Attacks in Eastern Uganda
Morning Star News | Jan. 11, 2019 Muslims in eastern Uganda sent a Christian mother to the hospital with injuries from a beating in one village and tore down a…
INDIA – Hindu Radicals Terrorize Christian Children Attending Sunday School in Southern India
International Christian Concern | Dec. 20, 2018 On November 11, 2018, a mob of 300 Hindu radicals reportedly terrorized a group of Christian children as they attended a Sunday school…
VIETNAM – Imprisoned Vietnamese Pastor Punished for Not Pleading Guilty
International Christian Concern | Dec. 10, 2018 Pastor Nguyen Trung Ton who has been sentenced for 12-year in prison, accused of plotting to overthrow the government and charged under Article…
UGANDA – Pastor and Five Evangelists Arrested for Preaching in Uganda
International Christian Concern | Nov 29, 2018 International Christian Concern (ICC) has learned that on Saturday, November 24, Pastor Tom Palapande and his team of five evangelists were arrested in…
INDIA – Pastor Brutally Beaten for Leading Open Air Worship Services in India
International Christian Concern | Nov. 27, 2018 Earlier this month, a pastor and his congregation were severely beaten in India’s Bihar state. In addition to accusations of forced conversion, a…
INDIA – Extremists in India Attempt to Burn Pastor Alive
International Christian Concern | Nov. 27, 2018 On October 23, Pastor John Lakra and his family were driving to a hospital in Sundargarh, Odisha to seek emergency treatment for their…
EGYPT – Egypt Sentences ISIS Supporter to Death for murdering Christian Doctor
The Daily Caller | Nov. 18, 2018 Egyptian authorities sentenced a man accused of supporting ISIS to death Saturday for the 2017 murder of a Christian doctor in Cairo. Prosecutors…
CHINA – Pastor of Guangzhou House Church Detained
International Christian Concern | Nov. 13, 2018 International Christian Concern (ICC) has learned that Pastor Huang Xiaoning from Guangzhou Bible Reformed Church (GBRC) was detained for five days by the…
UGANDA – Acid Attack Survivor Umar Mulinde Targeted again in Uganda
Morning Star News | Oct. 25, 2018 Pastor Umar Mulinde, a highly effective evangelist in Uganda who survived a horrific acid attack in 2011, said he recently escaped another attempted…
INDIA – Christian Pastor in India Beaten and Kidnapped by Radicals
International Christian Concern | Oct. 22, 2018 On September 4, Pastor Mathai Varghese, the 57-year-old pastor of Ebenezer Indian Pentecostal Church in Suratgarh, was abducted and beaten by a mob…
INDONESIA – Increased Police Presence in Indonesia as Persecution Rises
International Christian Concern Indonesia, a Muslim-majority country, is seeing an increase in Christian persecution as the radical Islam rise in the nation. As a result, the police have to increase…
TURKEY- IRD Cheers Release of Pastor Andrew Brunson
Juicy Ecumenism | Oct. 12, 2018 he Institute on Religion & Democracy (IRD) is celebrating the immediate release of Pastor Andrew Brunson after a Turkish court determined he has adequately…
TURKEY – Secret Deal with Turkey Paves Way for American Pastor’s Release
NBC News | Oct. 11, 2018 The White House expects North Carolina pastor Andrew Brunson to be released by the Turkish government and returned to the U.S. in the coming…
TURKEY – Lawyer of U.S. Pastor says to Appeal to Top Turkish Court for his Release
Reuters | Oct. 2, 2018 The case of Andrew Brunson, whose next regular court hearing is on Oct. 12, has become the most divisive issue in a worsening diplomatic row…
TURKEY – Turkish-US officials ‘cautiously optimistic’ of Brunson’s release
World Watch Monitor | Sept. 24, 2018 Andrew Brunson, pictured during his release from prison into house arrest on 25 July, was first arrested almost two years ago. Both Turkish and…
TURKEY- Daughter: U.S. Pastor Imprisoned in Turkey for Terrorism by ‘Christianization’
Breit Bart | Sept. 24, 2018 The pastor’s daughter Jacqueline Furnari declared, “A year and a half after his initial detention [in October 2016], Turkey finally charged him when they handed…
NIGERIA – 20+ Nigerian Christians drown in river attempting to escape Fulani attackers
World Watch Monitor | Sept. 21, 2018 A pastor was one of at least 27 people who lost their lives following fresh attacks carried out by Fulani militants on five…
NICARAGUA – Christians attacked, detained and killed as ‘enemies of the regime’
World Watch Monitor | Sept. 6, 2018 Nicaragua’s president has ordered a UN Commission to leave the country on 1 September, after it criticised the government for human rights abuses…