BURKINA FASO – An Appeal for Burkina Faso
Aug. 15, 2019 | Juicy Ecumenism | By Scott Morgan Since January 2019, twenty people have been killed and several churches have been destroyed by Islamist forces operating in the…
CHINA – Sichuan Church Condemns Forced Lawyer Appointment | Persecution
Aug. 12, 2019 | International Christian Concern Imprisoned Pastor Wang Yi Continues to Face Legal Persecution International Christian Concern (ICC) has learned that on August 10, Early Rain Covenant Church…
IRAQ – intimidation of Nineveh Plain Christians
Aug. 8, 2019 | Middle East Concern Iraqi Christians asked us to pray for the town of Bartella, a predominantly Christian town in the Nineveh Plains, east of Mosul, where…
CHINA – China removes ‘Bible,’ ‘God,’ ‘Christ’ from children’s classics like ‘Robinson Crusoe’
Aug. 6, 2019 | The Christian Post | Leah MarieAnn Klett In efforts to bring Christianity further under government control, authorities in China have erased the words "Bible," "God" and…
NIGERIA – Terrorism in Nigeria
Aug. 6, 2019 | Douglas Burton | Washington Times | Analysis/Opinion Americans are reeling from horrific misuse of assault weapons in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, whereas in Nigeria…
NIGERIA – Catholic Priest Saved by Neighbors in Kasuwan Magani
Aug. 5, 2019 | War Desk News By Reuben Buhari (Kasuwan Magani, Nigeria) Terrorists armed with assault rifles attempted to assassinate a popular Catholic priest here but were beaten back…
NIGERIA – Christian rights groups urge caution in response to reports of Leah Sharibu’s death
Christian Today | Aug. 5, 2019 Christian human rights organisations are continuing to hope that a teenager being held by a faction of the Boko Haram terrorist group is still…
NIGERIA – Anti-Christian carnage in Nigeria could be global security nightmare
Aug. 4, 2019 | CRUX | John Allen ROME - Back in the late 1970s, James Wuye was a young Nigerian and fervent Christian believer, who converted to Catholicism and…
NIGERIA – Leah Sharibu: Nigerian US based journalist slams Buhari
Aug. 2, 2019 | The Sun Nigeria ...Says President insensitive to nation's security challenges Magna Faith Krimi in African fabrics and Isha Isatu Sesay A Nigerian diaspora leader and media…
IRAQ – Is Iraq Set to Follow Iran and Curb Religious Freedom?
July 30, 2019 | By Nina Shea | Real Clear Politics While it struggles to constrain Iran-controlled militias it once welcomed to help defeat ISIS, Iraq now appears poised to…
EGYPT – Systematic Discrimination: Christians Under Egyptian Rule
July 20, 2019 | Raymond Ibrahim Coptic Solidarity (CS), an international human rights organization devoted to ameliorating the plight of Egypt’s indigenous inhabitants—the Christian Copts—recently published a comprehensive report on…
RELEASE – Save the Persecuted Christians, Leah Foundation and International Committee on Nigeria Call for ‘Measured Response’ to Unconfirmed Reports of Leah Sharibu’s Death
July 29, 2019 | For Immediate Release Dr. Gloria Puldu, info@leah-foundation.org WASHINGTON—Disturbing reports over the weekend claimed kidnapped Christian Nigeria schoolgirl Leah Sharibu has been killed in captivity. But those…
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…
NIGERIA – ‘His Cemetery Was Full of Victims’: Group Helps Americans ‘Adopt’ Persecuted Christians in Nigeria
July 26, 2019 | CBN | Mark Martin Leaders with "Save the Persecuted Christians" are on a mission to help Americans "adopt" persecuted Christians in war-torn Nigeria – by praying…
CHINA – Chinese Court Upholds Pastor John Cao’s Prison Sentence
Sentence Upheld After Repeated Delays on Appeal Hearing (International Christian Concern) – International Christian Concern (ICC) has learned that on July 25, a court in China’s Yunnan province announced its…
CHINA – China Orders Towns to Count How Many Citizens ‘Believe in God’ and Then Monitor Them
July 25, 2019 | Christian Headlines China’s central government has intensified its crackdown on Christianity in recent months by pressuring local government officials to keep a count on the number…
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…
NIGERIA – Nigerian Christians plead for U.S. help in face of religiously driven violence
Washington Times | Guy Taylor | July 7, 2019 The horror that enveloped Rebecca Sharibu’s world in early 2018 when her 14-year-old daughter, Leah, was kidnapped by Boko Haram militants…
NIGERIA/USA – 3 Nigerian Women Beg for US to Help Stop Persecution of Christians
https://youtu.be/PEdLplf5rcA The Stream | Carmel Kookogey | July 2, 2019 | Video at The Stream After 110 Nigerian girls were kidnapped by Boko Haram terrorists in February 2018, all but…
NIGERIA – Christian Teen’s Contagious Courageous Stand, a ‘Hostage for Life’ for Refusing to Deny Jesus
CBN News | John Jessup | June 19, 2019 WASHINGTON – Until this week, Rebecca Sharibu never set foot outside of her village in northern Nigeria. Helpless and heartbroken, she…
NIGERIA – Nigerian ‘genocide’: Unborn babies ‘slaughtered like chickens,’ entire tribes left homeless
Christian Post | Samuel Smith | June 11, 2019 WASHINGTON — Nigerians from predominantly Christian tribes in Nigeria visited the United States this week to share how their tribes are…
NIGERIA – Christian Teen’s Contagious Courageous Stand, a ‘Hostage for Life’ for Refusing to Deny Jesus
CBN News | John Jessup | June 9, 2019 WASHINGTON – Until this week, Rebecca Sharibu never set foot outside of her village in northern Nigeria. Helpless and heartbroken, she…