KARACHI: The killing in recent months of a Chinese man and a woman at the hands of suspected militants in Balochistan has put Beijing in a quandary. That’s because the two were not in Quetta to teach mandarin but to do something
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KARACHI: The killing in recent months of a Chinese man and a woman at the hands of suspected militants in Balochistan has put Beijing in a quandary. That’s because the two were not in Quetta to teach mandarin but to do something
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More than 60 South Korean Christians are being expelled from China after helping North Korean defectors. Authorities have accused them of “missionary” activities – illegal under China’s strict restrictions on religious involvement. “These persons were engaged in missionary activities in
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As students gathered for a Bible class in Hanoi, Vietnam, security forces arrived and arrested the assembled believers. On January 23rd, Pastor Nguyen (not his real name) reported that “Last week we were arrested by Hanoi security during our Bible
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House churches in China are being told to expect “unprecedented suppression” in a new report which is warning of a “major turning point” in the treatment of believers. China Aid has expressed fears that Chinese Christians will suffer under a
Read moreA human rights lawyer in China who has been detained since 2014 sent a message to his wife to gather people to pray, not for his release, but for the gospel to spread. The lawyer’s wife, Mrs. Wong, shared her
Read moreChinese authorities have begun a crackdown on “evil cults” but, unfortunately, those who were arrested and accused of being cult members were Christians, according to the persecution watchdog group China Aid. The arrests were made in October and November, but the
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Kim Jong-un, supreme leader of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, has taken his dislike of Christianity to a whole new level this Christmas by forcing people under his regime to celebrate the birth anniversary of his grandmother Kim Jong-suk
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A Lutheran pastor imprisoned in Vietnam has been transferred to another camp and kept in solitary confinement because he stood up for the rights of other prisoners, according to his wife. Tran Thi Hong went to visit her husband, Pastor
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Foreign non-governmental organisations, including social and environmental advocacy groups, fear they could inadvertently break the broadly defined new rules that take effect in China next month, with some even closing down to avoid such pitfalls. Chinese President Xi Jinping’s administration
Read moreNew laws that are all set to be passed in China threaten Christians in the country with severe persecution, including prison. CBN News reports that, according to an anonymous tip-off from an American Christian who has connections with China’s underground house
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