USA – FBI: Three El Paso Catholic Churches were targeted by arson
Catholic News Agency | Sep 23, 2019 .- Three Catholic Churches in El Paso were this year the targets of arson, FBI officials announced on Sept. 19. “The unknown perpetrator(s)…
NIGERIA/USA – Breaking News: Leah rally confirmed, at U.S. Capitol
War Desk News | Sept. 20, 2019 Breaking | “Pray for Leah Rally” confirmed! Save the Persecuted Christians made the announcement on Friday, September 20, via a press release to…
BURKINA FASO – 2,000 Christians flee village following IS attack in Burkina Faso
Premier | Sept. 18, 2019 According to Catholic charity Aid to the Church in Need (ACN), 2,000 villagers from Hitté and Rounga in Burkina Faso's Loroum Province, fled their homes…
PAKISTAN – Asia Bibi, Modern Confessor of the Faith
National Catholic Register |by Nina Shea | Sept. 16th, 2019 COMMENTARY: A drama of faithfulness, courage and perseverance, in which good ultimately triumphs. It is also a window into the…
NIGERIA – Nigerian children who escaped Boko Haram say they faced another ‘prison’: Military detention
Washington Post | Danielle Paquette, West Africa bureau chief | Sept. 14, 2019 MAIDUGURI, Nigeria — Four hundred nights. Fatima counted each one as she lay on the ground with…
RELEASE – Mexican Pastor Shot and Killed After Service Is Latest Casualty in String of Attacks on Religious Leaders
***NEWS RELEASE*** | September 10, 2019 Save the Persecuted Christians: Mexico Has Become One of the Most Dangerous Places for Clergy, as They Face Extreme Violence WASHINGTON—The latest casualty in…
India – Hindu extremists rape 4-year-old daughter of pastor who refused to stop sharing the Gospel
Christian Post | Leah MarieAnn Klett | Sept.11, 2019 Hindu extremists raped the 4-year-old daughter of a pastor in central India because he refused to stop sharing the Gospel, a…
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 & NORTH KOREA – Chinese pastor shared Christian faith with 1,000 North Koreans before execution, defector claims
FoxNews | Caleb Parke | Sept. 5, 2019 A pastor on the China-North Korea border shared his faith with at least 1,000 North Koreans in the Hermit Kingdom before he was assassinated in…
RWANDA – Pastor Gregg Brian Schoof and family expelled, and all his wealth grabbed by the Kagames
Gakwerere | Sept. 4, 2019 Pastor Gregg Schoof was the owner of amazing Grace radio which the satanic system ruling Rwanda had its broadcasting license revoked in April 2018. Pastor…
IRAN: Christian convert starts one-year prison sentence
Middle East Concern | Sept. 4, 2019 Iranian Christians request prayer for convert Fatemeh Bakhteri (also known as Ailar), who has started serving a one-year prison sentence in Evin Prison…
INDIA – Watch: Bajrang Dal workers barge into Christian prayer meet at Worli school
Mumbai Mirror | By Alka DhupkarAlka Dhupkar | Sept. 4, 2019 Police issue notice to organisers asking them to seek permission in future. Workers from the Bajrang Dal – the youth…
NIGERIA – Tears As Catholic Community Buries Fr. Tanko, Slain Taraba Priest
War Desk News | Sept. 3, 2019 The 42 years old cleric who was the presiding priest of St Peters Parish, Ahmadu, met his untimely death at Kpankufu village, between…
ALGERIA: Campaign to close churches continues
Middle East Concern | Sept. 3, 2019 Algerian Christians request prayer as the campaign by authorities to close churches intensifies. Early in the morning of 2 September, gendarmes came to…
UNITED NATIONS / NIGERIA – UN calls for urgent action to end violence in Nigeria
Aljazeera | Mercy Abang | Sept. 2, 2019 Abuja, Nigeria - The United Nations special rapporteur on extrajudicial killings condemned rising violence across Nigeria and a "lack of accountability" for perpetrators. Agnes…
STATEMENT – Nigerian Government Reports 16-Year-Old Christian Captive Leah Sharibu Is Alive
August 31, 2019 | ***STATEMENT*** Save the Persecuted Christians: ‘Leah Needs to Come Home’ WASHINGTON—Several Nigerian and global media outlets reported Saturday that kidnapped Christian Nigeria schoolgirl Leah Sharibu is…
PAKISTAN – Asia Bibi pleads for justice for victims of Pakistan’s harsh blasphemy laws as she plans to settle in Europe
Sunday Telegraph | Aug. 31, 2019 | Ben Farmer, Islamabad Waqar Gillani, Islamabad In her first ever newspaper interview, Asia Bibi said she had at times fallen into despair As…
NIGERIA – JUST IN: Leah Sharibu Still Alive, FG Negotiating Release
Amiloaded News | Aug. 31, 2019 Leah Sahribu taken captive by ISWAP/Boko Haram Feb. 19, 2018 The Presidency has dismissed speculation that Leah Sharibu, the Dapchi schoolgirl still held by…
CAMEROON – Cameroonian Bible Translator Brutally Murdered, Wife’s Arm Chopped Off in Machete Attack
CBN | Will Maule, Faithwire | Aug. 31, 2019 A Bible translator in Cameroon has been killed in a brutal machete attack. Angus Abraham Fung was among seven people who…
INDONESIA – Community Forces Church to Close Building
i Commit to Pray | Aug. 29, 2019 Officials closed a church in Central Indonesia after neighbors protested its existence. Pastor Tigor Yunus Sitorus built a home in the Bantul…
RELEASE – Save the Persecuted Christians: Murder of Bible Translator in Cameroon Is Further Evidence of Need for U.S. Special Envoy in That Region
***STATEMENT*** August 29, 2019 | For Immediate Release Group Also Calls on Law Firm Squire Patton Boggs to Cease Representation of Cameroon and Others That Commit Atrocious Religious Liberty Violations…
MYANMAR (BURMA) – Burmese Army Sues Kachin Pastor for White House Remarks
Rev. Hkalam Samson Targeted for Conversation with US President Persecution | Aug. 29, 2019 08/29/2019 Washington, D.C. (International Christian Concern) – International Christian Concern (ICC) has learned that on August 26,…
NIGERIA – Bandits attack Catholic priest, set him, vehicle ablaze
Punch Nigeria | Justin Tyopuusu, Jalingo | Aug. 29, 2019 Bandits have reportedly ambushed and killed a Catholic priest at Kufai Amadu in Takum Local Government Area of Taraba State,…
CHINA – Back to Jerusalem – Children Turned Away At Church in China
Back to Jerusalem | Aug. 28, 2019 Rachel (not her real name) got a text message on her phone that her church in Shanghai was going to meet today on…
ALGERIA – Campaign against churches continues
Middle East Concern | Aug. 27, 2019 Algerian Christians request continued prayer as the government campaign against churches continues. On 21 August, MEC reported that closure orders had been issued…
BURKINA FASO – 4 Christians in Burkina Faso Executed by Islamic Extremists for Wearing Crosses
Christian Headlines | Aug. 27, 2019 Islamic terrorists are continuing to kill Christians in northeastern Burkina Faso. According to CBN News, Aid to the Church in Need reports in a June…
NIGERIA – One Pastor Killed, Another Kidnapped in Separate Attacks in North-Central Nigeria
Morningstar News | Aug. 26, 2019 The Rev. Jeremiah Omolewa of Living Faith Church in the city of Kaduna, Nigeria, was killed and his wife kidnapped on Aug. 4, 2019.…
USA & INDIA – International Wing of RSS Penetrates Government Offices Across America
OFMI | Aug. 26, 2019 US affiliate of Indian paramilitary hosts events with police, fire, elected officials USA: August 26, 2019 — Since August 9, the international wing of the…
RELEASE – Parents Battle Pakistani Justice System to Free 14-Year-Old Daughter Who Was Abducted and Forced Into Child Marriage
August 26, 2019 | For Immediate Release Save the Persecuted Christians Creates New ‘Warfare on Women’ Exhibit Telling Stories of Those Who Live Fractured Lives Because of Persecution WASHINGTON—The Christian…
IRAN – Upcoming Appeal Hearing for Iranian Christians
Middle East Concern | Aug. 26, 2019 On 26 August MEC issued an email requesting prayer for an appeal court hearing scheduled for 3 September in which three separate cases…
DR of CONGO – ADF Rebels attack Boga Diocese, Eastern Congo
Anglican Ink | Aug. 24, 2019 Bishop William Bahemuka, the Anglican Bishop of the Diocese of Boga (DR Congo) has reported that ADF rebels attacked Boga town in the early…
ERITREA – Eritrea Arrests Another 150 Christians Between June and August | Persecution
Persecution | Aug. 23, 2019 08/23/2019 Eritrea (International Christian Concern) – Eritrea, one of the world’s worst violators of Human Rights, has again clamped down on Christians in their country.…
ERITREA – At least 150 Christians arrested in Eritrea clampdown
WorldWatch Monitor | Aug. 23, 2019 At least 150 Eritrean Christians were arrested by government officials during the last two months, with some of them held in an underground prison…
NIGERIA – Christian Pastors Targeted by Kidnapping Gangs in Nigeria
Zenger News Service | Doug Burton The kidnapping of pastors for ransom has reached epidemic levels in Nigeria. “Just in the last month there have been a lot of pastor kidnappings,”…
VIETNAM – Imprisoned Hmong Believer Hospitalized
I Commit to Pray | Aug. 22, 2019 A Hmong believer has been hospitalized as a result of poor treatment in prison, where he has spent the last year on…
BURKINA FASO – Islamist militants are targeting Christians in Burkina Faso: ‘They are planting seeds of a religious conflict’
Washington Post | Aug. 21, 2019 DAKAR, Senegal — One evening in late June, gunmen stormed a village in northern Burkina Faso and ordered people who had been chatting outside…
ALGERIA – Campaign against Algerian church continues
Aug. 21, 2019 | Middle East Concern Algerian Christians request prayer for the continued campaign by the authorities to close churches. On Sunday, 18 August, the churches in Akbou and…
MEXICO – Mexican pastor shot and killed after Sunday church service
Christian Post | Samuel Smith | Tuesday, August 20, 2019 Alfrery Líctor Cruz Canseco | Facebook/AlfLic Cruz Correction appended A pastor in southwest Mexico was shot and killed after a…
NIGERIA – First-Hand Report: Why is the World Ignoring This Genocide?
Aug. 19, 2019 | Clarion | By Mario Alexis Portella The author with surviving victims of Boko Haram (Photo: Courtesy Mario Alexis Portella) At least 1,200 people were killed and…
CHINA – Sichuan Church Elder Li Yingqiang Released on Bail
Li Sent Back to Hometown After Eight Months Imprisonment Aug. 19, 2019 | International Christian Concern International Christian Concern (ICC) has learned that over the weekend, elder Li Yingqiang from…