CHRISTIAN PERSECUTION IN THE NEWS
RELEASE – Save the Persecuted Christians Leads Virtual Passion Prayer on Good Friday
Save the Persecuted Christians | Apr. 2, 2020 Continuous 24-Hour Prayer Vigil Brings Together People Around the World to Pray For and With Persecuted Christians
CHINA – China’s people of faith: Canaries in Xi Jinping’s coal mine
The Jerusalem Post | Leila Gilbert | MARCH 30, 2020 Call it COVID-19. Or novel coronavirus. Or the now-politically incorrect term “Chinese flu.” But thanks to
IRAN – Iran continues to terrorize Iraqi Catholics
S4C News | Meuwissen Sebastien | March 30, 2020 Baghdad and Mosul are overrun by Shiite paramilitary groups who receive funding and weapons from Iran.
INDIA – Police Detain Christians Providing Aid to the Poor in Tamil Nadu, India
Morning Star News | March 30, 2020 Police in southern India’s Tamil Nadu state rushed to a slum where Christians were providing food and other
FRANCE – French Christian charity workers kidnapped in Iraq are freed
BBC | March 27, 2020 Four workers from a French Christian charity who were kidnapped in Iraq in January have been freed, President Emmanuel Macron’s
NIGERIA – Gunmen kill three siblings, two women in Plateau
J Town | March 26, 2020 Gunmen, suspected to be herdmen, killed five people in two separate attacks in Kwal district, Bassa Local Government Area
NEPAL – Police in Nepal Arrest Pastor for Touting Healing Prayer amid Coronavirus Pandemic
Morning Star News | March 26, 2020 Police in Nepal arrested a Christian pastor this week, accusing him of giving false information about COVID-19 by
IRAN – Iran’s Imprisoned Christians Face Yet Another Danger: COVID-19
Religion Unplugged | Lela Gilbert | March 26, 2020 “The new coronavirus kills one person every 10 minutes in Iran,” according to Kianush Jahanpur, Iran’s health
CHINA – China’s Theology and Persecution
International Christian Concern | Linda Burkle | March 25, 2020 2019 was a year marked by heightened surveillance and persecution of Christians in China. According
NIGERIA – Professor in Prison for Running Christian Orphanage in Sharia Run State of Nigeria
International Christian Concern | March 25, 2020 Prof. Solomon Tarfa and his wife Mercy, founded an orphanage called Du Merci in 1996 in Kano State,
BURMA – Civilian Christians Killed amid Military Fighting in Western Burma
Morning Star News | March 25, 2020 Burmese army jet fighters killed 21 civilians from the predominantly Christian, ethnic Chin group in airstrikes this month
INDIA – Pastor says life becoming ‘far more difficult’ for Christians amid escalating persecution
Christian Post | Leah MarieAnn Klett | March 25, 2020 A pastor in India has opened up about the deteriorating state of religious freedom in
CHINA – In coronavirus fight, China hasn’t stopped persecuting Christians: watchdog
Fox News | Caleb Parke | March 25, 2020 The coronavirus pandemic that began in China and spread worldwide hasn’t stopped the Chinese Communist Party from persecuting religious minorities, according
NIGERIA – Nigerian girl, 17, escapes month in locked room after abduction and forcible conversion to Islam
World Watch Monitor | Julia Bicknell | March 25, 2020 Sadiya Amos, aged 17, went missing from north central Kaduna in northern Nigeria on the
SYRIA – Turkey Cuts Water Supply for NE Syria
International Christian Concern | March 24, 2020 Turkish sponsored armed groups have cut the water supply this weekend which provides water to 460,000 people living
NIGERIA – Wife of Nigerian bishop, church secretary freed after being kidnapped by gunmen
Christian Post | Samuel Smith | March 24, 2020 The wife an Anglican bishop and a church secretary have regained their freedom just over a
IRAN – Iran Releases a Third of Christian Prisoners Due to Coronavirus Concerns
Christianity Today | Jayson Casper | March 23, 2020 Forced by the new coronavirus, Iran took the tiniest of steps to placate global advocacy for
INDIA – Hindu leader threatens Christians with new wave of persecution
Christian Post | Anugrah Kumar | March 23, 2020 The chief of a Hindu nationalist group has launched a nationwide campaign against “forcible” conversions to
NIGERIA – Muslims massacre Christians in Nigeria—but ‘Village Vigilantes’ strike back
Zenger | Lawrence Zongo | March 23, 2020 The five men with machetes were cornered in the dark amid a stand of bushes near the
INDIA – Christians Suffer Police Brutality, Illegal Arrests in Uttar Pradesh, India
Morning Star News | March 22, 2020 Forcing them to pose like Christ on the cross, police last week beat Christians in custody on baseless
PAKISTAN – Agony of Pakistani Christian girls’ family after her kidnapping by Muslim man
Pakistan Christian Posy | Napoleon Qayyum | March 22, 2020 Warris Masih who is the resident of Gulshan-e-Noor SharifPura Cantt Lahore and is the father