CHRISTIAN PERSECUTION IN THE NEWS
MEDIA ADVISORY – Religious Freedom Advocates, Churches and Believers Rally in Prayer for Leah Sharibu on Oct. 26
October 23, 2019 | For Immediate Release Save the Persecuted Christians Joins Others Worldwide to Plead for Leah’s Release from Boko Haram Captivity for Refusing
RELEASE – Save the Persecuted Christians Stands in Solidarity with Hong Kong Christians and Freedom Fighters
October 21, 2019 | For Immediate Release Coalition Urges ‘Statement of Solidarity’ to Share with Hong Kong Brothers and Sisters in Christ WASHINGTON—For several months,
CHINA – China destroys 3,000-seat church, detains pastors
Christian Post | Michael Gryboski | Oct. 21, 2019 The People’s Republic of China destroyed a church that reportedly could seat 3,000 people and detained
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
U.N. – World is ‘ignoring’ persecution of Christians, says Hungarian official
Catholic San Francisco | Beth Griffin, Catholic News Service | Sept. 28, 2019 UNITED NATIONS –Christians are the most persecuted religious group worldwide, but hypocrisy,