UGANDA – UGANDAN BOY KIDNAPPED BY WITCH DOCTOR, KILLED AS SACRIFICE
TAB Media | November 16, 2020 A boy was killed as a human sacrifice in Uganda after a woman opposed to the boy’s Christian father sold the boy to a…
NIGERIA – Four Killed and Others Abducted in Recent Fulani Militant Attacks
International Christian Concern | November 13, 2020 Luka Binniyat of the Southern Kaduna People’s Union (SOKAPU) has reported another attack in Southern Kaduna. This attack reportedly took place on Friday,…
NIGERIA – ‘Why are you killing Christians?’ Trump asked Nigeria’s president
World Israeli News | November 2, 2020 “Why are you killing Christians?” US President Donald J. Trump apparently shocked his Nigerian counterpart, Muhammadu Buhari, by asking this question the first…
CHINA – Christian orgs in China drop ‘Jesus’ from book titles to circumvent internet censorship
Christian Post | internet censorship Christian orgs in China drop ‘Jesus’ from book titles to circumvent internet censorship Christian Post | Anugrah Kumar | October 26, 2020 Internet censorship targeting Christians…
INDIA – Hindus extremists in India torch church after warning Christians to stop meeting
Christian Post | Leah MarieAnn Klett | October 24, 2020 Suspected Hindu extremists set fire to a church in India’s Andhra Pradesh state, burning it to the ground because local…
IRAQ – Iraq Government Continues to Deny Access to Humanitarian Aid
International Christian Concern | October 21, 2020 The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) reported that nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) have continued to not receive national access…
LAOS – Lao Christians Detained in Jail for Planning Christian Funeral
International Christian Concern | October 19, 2020 For over three months, four Lao Christians have been jailed in the country’s Khammouane province for planning a Christian funeral that is contrary…
CHINA – Church elder, family suffer daily harassment by officials in China
Christian Post | Anugrah Kumar October 5, 2020 The communist government of China is harassing and keeping an eye on Li Yingqiang, an elder of the persecuted Early Rain Covenant…
SRI LANKA – Christians told to cease worship by villagers in Sri Lanka
CHVN | Libby Giesbrech | September 27, 2020 Christians in a Sri Lankan village are being told by others in the village they cannot continue to worship. In late June,…
MEDIA ADVISORY – Save the Persecuted Christians Urges Countries to Call Attention to Christian Persecution at 75th UNGA
For Immediate Release | Save the Persecuted Christians | Sept. 22, 2020 We Pray that World Leaders Will Speak Out Specifically Against Genocidal Violence Against 327 Million Christians Worldwide WASHINGTON—The…
KENYA – Finding Hope in Christ, Abandoned Children Have New Life
International Christian Concern | August 26, 2020 Nine months after seeing their mother walk out on them for converting to Christianity, seven children in the village of Dera, Kilifi county…
INDIA – 12 years on, Dalit and Adivasi Christians of Kandhamal await justice
Forward Press | Goldy George | August 26, 2020 In 2008, Kandhamal, Odisha witnessed unprecedented hostility in which 56,000 people were left homeless, and 308 churches were destroyed, at least…
RELEASE – Trump, UN Expose Christian Persecution
Save the Persecuted Christians | August 21, 2020 President’s Decrying of ‘Beyond Disgraceful’ Attacks on Freedom of Religion Precedes U.N. Commemoration WASHINGTON — This Saturday, for the second year in a row,…
NIGERIA – The Ignored Genocide of Christians in Nigeria
Gatestone Institute| Raymond Ibrahim | August 16, 2020 The mass slaughter of Christians in Nigeria, which some international observers have classified as genocide, is reaching unprecedented levels. According to an August 4 report, at…
CHINA – Worsening Christian Persecution in China
Vision | August 13, 2020 Oppression and discrimination towards Christians has only worsened during the Covid-19 pandemic according to Release International. The charity, which supports persecuted Christians, says many had…
AFRICA – COVID-19 crisis in Africa increasing levels of Christian persecution, charity says
Crux | August 13, 2020 As the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic continues to hit Africa hard, a leading human rights group is warning that the persecution of Christians is getting worse…
CHINA – Chinese Christian Detained for Street Evangelism
International Christian Concern | August 6, 2020 On August 3, a Christian in China’s Hunan province was sentenced by the authorities to 10 days in administrative detention for “illegal evangelism.”…
INDIA – Persecution in India is ‘intensifying’ – Christian group
Christianity Today | August 3, 2020 The persecution of Christians in India intensified to "alarming" levels in the first half of 2020, a human rights group reports. Hate crimes against…
INDIA – PRESS RELEASE OF PERSECUTION RELIEF HALF YEARLY REPORT 2020
Persecution Relief | July 29, 2020 ‘CHRISTIAN MINOR LYNCHED, WOMEN & MEN MURDERED, EXCOMMUNICATION IS AT ALL TIME HIGH, CHURCH BUILDINGS BURNED, PRIESTS ATTACKED, THE LIST GOES ON; ITS HIGH…
CHINA – No safe place to be a Christian in China, report says
Baptist Standard | July 28, 2020 China persecutes Christians to gain leverage in future diplomatic relations with the United States, a Christian seeking U.S. asylum claimed in a video released…
CHINA – Report: Religious Suppression in China
International Christian Concern | July 23, 2020 This report seeks to provide an overview of religious persecution against Chinese Christians in recent years. With this report, we hope to piece…
INDIA – Covid-crisis spike in anti-Christian violence, discrimination in India reports regional watchdog
Barnabas Fund | July 21, 2020 In the first half of 2020 the Evangelical Fellowship of India (EFI) recorded 135 cases of targeted violence and discrimination against Christians, including three murders, according…
WORLDWIDE – Open Doors Calling For Worldwide Support For Persecuted Believers
Vision | July 21, 2020 Open Doors is calling for world leaders and people everywhere to take the issue of Christian persecution more seriously. CEO of Open Doors UK Henrietta…
CHINA – Chinese Government Orders Low-Income Families to Abandon Their Christian Faith or Lose Financial Aid
CBN | Andrea Morris | July 19, 2020 In the Chinese government's continuing persecution of Christians, poor families are now being told to renounce their faith or lose welfare benefits.…
ERITREA – Thirty Christians arrested at wedding ceremony in Eritrea
Barnabus Fund | July 17, 2020 Eritrean authorities arrested 30 Christians as they attended a wedding ceremony in the capital, Asmara, in the last week of June. Local sources reported…
INDIA – Recent Killings Have Indian Christians Fearful of a Deadly New Trend
International Christian Concern | July 17, 2020 In just over a month, four Christians, including a woman, a teenager, and a pastor, were killed in India because of their faith.…
WORLDWIDE – Hope For Persecuted Christians
Family Radio Network | Dede Laugesen | July 17, 2020 https://soundcloud.com/family-stations-inc/hope-for-persecuted-christians LISTEN ON SOUNDCLOUD
NIGERIA – The Crisis of Christian Persecution in Nigeria
Family Research Council | Lela Gilbert | July 15, 2020 Since the dawn of the twenty-first century, and with horrifying acceleration in recent years, verified reports of murders, rapes, mutilations,…
WORLDWIDE – Comment: The persecution of Christians should matter to everyone
Church Times | Henrietta Blyth | July 15, 2020 IN JULY 1955, a young Evangelical preacher, Anne van der Bijl — aka Brother Andrew, “God’s Smuggler” — took his first…
PAKISTAN – Pakistan’s Christians: Starved and Exposed
International Christian Concern | William Stark | July 10, 2020 In late March, a mosque in Lahore, Pakistan broadcast over its loudspeaker that it would be distributing government food aid…
WORLDWIDE – Don’t Forget about Religious Persecution
National Review| Dmitri Solzhenitsyn| July 10, 2020 As America contends with the seemingly never-ending problems that 2020 presents, some news topics go to the forefront while others are put on the…
INDIA – Christian families flee Indian village under threats of rape, murder after prayer house attacked by mob
Christian Post | Samuel Smith | July 9, 2020 Christian families in India have been forced to flee their homes following a series of mob attacks against a Christian prayer…
IRAN – Iran Continues to Persecute Christian Converts With Arrests, Prison Sentences and Financial Penalty
Iran HRM | July 6, 2020 At least 12 Iranian Christian coverts have been arrested by the intelligence agents of the Revolutionary Guards Corps in coordinated arrests across across three…
NIGERIA – European bishops call for EU support of persecuted Christians in Nigeria
Catholic News Agency | Courtney Mares | July 3, 2020 The president of the European bishops’ commission has promised persecuted Christians in Nigeria that he will advocate for increased support…
NIGERIA – European Bishops Decry ‘Criminal Persecution’ of Nigerian Christians
Breitbart | Thomas Williams | July 3, 2020 The president of the Commission of European Bishops’ Conferences (COMECE) has decried the ongoing violence and targeted persecution of Christians in Nigeria…
NIGERIA – Boko Haram: We lost 8,370 members – EYN church
The Gazette | July 2, 2020 The leadership of the Church of the Brethren in Nigeria, otherwise addressed as Ekklesiyya Yan'uwa a Nigeria (EYN) in Hausa, claims it has lost…
CHINA – Chinese seniors told to remove Christian images or lose their stipends
World Tribune | June 30, 2020 Elderly Christians in China are being forced by the communist government to choose between their faith and survival, a report said. The Chinese Communist…
IRAQ – Iraqi Christians Worry Over Militia Power Struggle
International Christian Concern | June 29, 2020 International Christian Concern (ICC) has learned that on the night of June 25, 2020, Iraq’s Counter-Terrorism Services (ICTS) launched a raid in Baghdad…
AFRICA – Religious persecution focus shifts to Africa
The Catholic Register | Michael Swan | June 25, 2020 Aid to the Church in Need and its 330,000 donors world-wide are responding to the changing world of religious persecution.…
CHINA – Hong Kong pastors face arrest, extradition to China with new security laws: watchdog
Fox News | Caleb Parke | June 23, 2020 China’s blueprint for national security in Hong Kong puts pro-democracy activists, including pastors and religious leaders, at risk of being extradited to and…
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