CHRISTIAN PERSECUTION IN THE NEWS
RELEASE – Christians in India Continue to Face Grave Danger
***NEWS RELEASE*** | For Immediate Release | October 14, 2019 Save the Persecuted Christians:As Attacks on India’s Christians Ramp Up, Believers in Jesus Christ Are
CHINA – China to restrict visas for Americans linked to certain groups: report
FoxNews|Brie Stimson | Oct. 9, 2019 The Chinese government plans to restrict visas for some Americans, specifically those employed by the U.S. intelligence community and
TURKEY/SYRIA – Turkish planes bomb Syria, causing panic among Christians, others
Crux | Dale Gavlak | Oct. 9, 2019 A Turkish milItary convoy is pictured in Kilis near the Turkish-Syrian border Oct. 9, 2019. Turkish warplanes
USA – USCIRF’s New Freedom of Religion or Belief Victims List Will Give Names to Nameless, Hold Persecutors Accountable
For Immediate Release | Oct. 9, 2019 Save the Persecuted Christians:USCIRF’s New Freedom of Religion or Belief Victims List Will Give Names to Nameless, Hold
INDIA – Term mob lynching comes from Bible, says Mohan Bhagwat
India Today | Oct. 8, 2019 Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat on Tuesday patted the back of the Narendra Modi government and said
TURKEY/SYRIA – Trump shifts tone on Turkey in effort to halt Syria invasion
AP NEWS | Oct. 8, 2019 WASHINGTON (AP) — In a span of 24 hours, President Donald Trump moved from threatening to obliterate Turkey’s economy
NIGERIA – Six Christian schoolgirls, others abducted by Fulani herdsmen in Nigeria
Christian Post | Leah MarieAnn Klett | Oct. 08, 2019 Muslim Fulani herdsmen have kidnapped six teenage girls and two staff members at gunpoint from
USA/CHINA – US puts visa restrictions on Chinese officials over abuses of Muslims in Xinjiang
CNBC | Jacob Pramuk | Oct. 8, 2019 The Trump administration put visa restrictions on Chinese officials Tuesday amid ongoing abuses of Muslim minorities in
NIGERIA – “WORLD TAKE NOTE!”: Genocide of Christians in Nigeria – Raymond Ibrahim
Gatestone Institute | Raymond Ibrahim | Oct. 7, 2019 Muhammadu Buhari, the Muslim president of Nigeria—who reached that position in part thanks to Barack H.
IRAQ – Iraqi Christians Raise Up Images of Christ Amid Deadly Anti-Government Protests
CBN News | Emily Jones | Oct. 7, 2019 JERUSALEM, Israel – At least 104 people have been killed and more than 6,000 wounded in
HONG KONG – A Statement of Solidarity to Hong Kong’s Christians – Juicy Ecumenism
Juicy Ecumenism | Faith McDonnell | Oct. 3, 2019 (And to all those in Hong Kong who long for freedom — By your Christian brothers
NIGERIA – Boko Haram Insurgents Execute Two Christian Aid Workers in Nigeria
CBN News | Steve Warren |Oct. 2, 2019 The Islamic extremist group Boko Haram has released a video showing the execution of two Christian aid
VIDEOS: UNGA74 Panel on Christian Persecution
“Rebuilding Lives, Rebuilding Communities: Ensuring a Future for Persecuted Christians” See the STPC Press Release published following the high-level panel on the global crisis of
RELEASE – Coalition Delivers Religious Freedom Petition to President Trump, His Cabinet and Congress
***NEWS RELEASE*** | For Immediate Release |October 1, 2019 Over 1,000 Signers Urge Them Not to Meet with Squire Patton Boggs or Other Firms Representing
NIGERIA – Victims of north Nigerian institution share stories of terror
Reuters | Alexis Akwagyiram |Sept. 29, 2019 KADUNA, Nigeria (Reuters) – When Jibril had tried to escape as a boy from an institution in Nigeria
NIGERIA – Victim tells of living in ‘torture house hellfire’
BBC | Sept. 29, 2019 A survivor of the Nigerian “torture house” raided by police has described being there as “living in hellfire”. “If you
INDIA – 8 Christians arrested in Hindu mob’s brutal crackdown on house churches: report
Christian Post | Samuel Smith | September 28, 2019 A massive crackdown on house churches by radical Hindu groups has led to the jailing of
RELEASE – Hungary, Brazil Foreign Ministers Host Breakthrough U.N. Panel Decrying Persecution of Christians, Need to Act
Videos and Transcripts of the Speakers For Immediate Release |September 27, 2019 Save The Persecuted Christians Urges Costs for the Persecutors WASHINGTON, D.C. —One of
NIGERIA/U.K. – UK opens investigation into killings of farmers in Benue
United Kingdom has opened an investigation into the killing of farmers by suspected herdsmen in Benue State and other parts of the country. Also to
IRAN – Educational challenge for children of converts
Middle East Concern | Sept. 25, 2019 Friends of Yousef Nadarkhani – a pastor previously sentenced to death for apostasy and presently in Evin prison
ALGERIA – Another church building forcibly closed
Middle East Concern | Sept. 25, 2019 Algerian Christians request prayer as the campaign to close churches continues. On 24 September, the police director of