A church in Angoulême, France, was severely damaged on 8 March by vandals seemingly intent on sabotaging worship services. The intruders sabotaged the sound system and threw large quantities of paint on walls, chairs, a piano and Bibles at the Hope and
Read more02/28/2019 Tajikistan (International Christian Concern) – World Watch Monitor has reported that new amendments to Tajikistan’s Religion Law are being used to exercise tighter control over the country’s tiny Christian community. These new amendments are now allowing the government to ban
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Christmas Day was formally declared a national holiday for all Iraqis in a landmark amendment announced by the government in December. The Iraqi cabinet approved the change in law creating a new holiday “on the occasion of the birth of Christ,” according
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Christian converts from Islam offered to pray for their persecutors who threatened them as they worshipped in secret in Uzbekistan. Eighteen people thought to be police officers dressed in civilian clothes entered the church where the Christians were holding a
Read moreIslamist activists carry placards against Asia Bibi, a Pakistani Christian woman who was recently released after spending eight years on death row for blasphemy, during a rally in Karachi on 21 November. A Pakistani court last week sentenced two Christian
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A young Sunday School teacher gave her own life to save the children she was teaching from the deadly earthquake which hit the Indonesian island of Sulawesi on 28 September. Flo Renshy was teaching a class at a church in
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09/25/2018 Washington D.C. (International Christian Concern) – On September 22, 2018, a family in western Kenya laid one of their kin to rest after he and two other men were attacked by a Muslim mob and stoned to death. Fredrick Mukanda Bahati was
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More than two hundred Chinese church leaders have issued a brave declaration calling for religious freedom, in an echo of the stands taken by German church leaders against the Nazis in the 1930s and Romanian church leaders against the Communist
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HELLO, MY NAME IS *NEJAT. I met the Lord Jesus three years ago. When my wife discovered I was a Christian, she became upset and stopped listening to me because I denied Isalm. On one occasion, she went to the
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NGON, Burma (Morning Star News) – Burmese army-backed militia beat two youth pastors in northern Burma (Myanmar) last week, detaining one of them overnight at the force’s base, sources said. At the home of one of the Christians in Kachin state, members
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