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Rehmat Masih (73) was jailed and imprisoned on accusations of blasphemy for allegedly insulting the Prophet Muhammad in Jhandewali village, Punjab province, Pakistan on June 20. "It is a false...

http://www.persecution.net/images/countries/iraq/iq_mosul.jpgChristians in Iraq have expressed fear of renewed violence after 34-year-old Hani Salim Wadi was shot and killed in front of his home in...

On May 25, the 11th hearing took place in the case against Hakan Tastan and Turan Topal, two Turkish Christians accused of "insulting Turkishness" by allegedly trying to convert others to...

On May 18, three Christians were given 15-day jail terms following a raid two days earlier on the Church of Christ in Tashkent. The men -- Avanesyan, Dechkov and Adambaev -- were detained...

Gao Zhisheng, a Christian human rights lawyer held by Chinese officials for more than a year and then released has again gone missing. On Feb. 4, 2009 Gao was seized by authorities and had no contact...

On April 20, the family of Uyghur house church leader Alimujiang Yimiti was allowed to visit with him for the first time since his arrest in January 2008. Alimujiang was sentenced in October 2009 to...

A Christian woman who was arrested for making derogatory remarks about the Prophet Muhammad on March 21 in Pakistan's Punjab province has been denied bail. On April 20, a judge rejected Rubina Bibi's...

A Christian human rights lawyer released by Chinese officials on April 6 , has again gone missing. Gao -- initially seized from his home in Shaanxi province on February 4, 2009 and held incommunicado...

Marwat Masih (29), a Christian barber in the town of Gulshan-e-Bashir, Punjab province, Pakistan, sustained severe injuries, including broken bones, after eight Muslims brutally assaulted him for...

Senait Oqbazgi Habta (28) died on April 23 in the Sawa Military Training Centre in Eritrea after suffering severe abuse and being denied medical treatment for malaria and severe anemia. Senait was...

At least 50 Iraqi Christian students are receiving hospital treatment following a bomb attack on May 2 outside the city of Mosul that killed at least one person and has forced nearly 1,000 students...

Christians killed by Muslim youths in Jos, Nigeria


Nathan S. Dabak & Sunday Gyang Bwede
Photos from Compass Direct Seven people were killed by Muslim youths on April 24 in Jos, Nigeria....

Police raided two Protestant churches in and near Uzbekistan's capital, Tashkent, over a two-day period in mid-April, according to Forum 18 News Service.
In the first raid, 43 young adults at a...

A 25-year-old Christian man was killed and three other believers were severely injured following an attack by militant Hindus on a prayer meeting in Saliya, Betul district, Madhya Pradesh on April...

Suspected Islamists abducted and killed a pastor and his wife in Boto village, Bauchi state in northern Nigeria on April 13. Pastor Ishaku Kadah (48) and his wife Selina (45) were abducted from the...

On Nov. 25, 2009, Pastor Yang Rongli and four other Linfen-Fushan church leaders from Shanxi Province were sentenced to criminal detention for three to seven years, according to China Aid Association.

What would you do if you received a letter with these words? What if the letter also included a real bullet? Would you tell your children? Would you leave your home? Would you stay and face the...

Maryam Rustampoor and Marzieh Amirizadeh, Iranian Christians who were arrested by security forces in March 2009, await the results of an April 13 court hearing, according to Elam Ministries. The...

On March 28, Rev. Wilson Issavi was temporarily released from Dastgard prison after posting bail, according to Farsi Christian News Network (FCNN). His charges are pending review by the court. Rev....

Christians in Kazakhstan continue to face harassment and criminal charges for religious activities, according to a recent report from Forum 18 News. On April 1, a pastor was fined 10 times the...

Hmong Christian Sung Cua Po fled into the forest with his family on March 19 after being given an expulsion order (click here for more information). The family has suffered severe abuse from...

Pastor Karam and his family
Photo from AINA Egyptian state security officials recently destroyed a church in Luxor and assaulted the pastor and his wife. Pastor Mahrous Karam was in negotiations...

Police in Punjab province, Pakistan recently arrested a Christian woman, Rubina Bibi, on accusations of "blasphemy." One of Rubina's relatives, a militant Muslim, accused her of making a derogatory...

A Pakistani Christian man passed away on March 22 after he was set on fire by Muslims in Rawalpindi three days earlier. Arshed Masih (38) and his wife, Martha (33), had been threatened with "dire...

A mob of approximately 2,000 Muslims attacked Christians gathered for prayer in a Coptic church in the northwestern city of Marsa Matrouh on March 12. Muslims hurled stones at the building before...

Thirteen Christians were killed on March 17 when Muslim Fulani herdsmen attacked two Christian villages in Plateau state, Nigeria. The attacks were presumably sparked by a dispute over property. The...

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I am writing this as an urgent call for you to speak up for our brothers and sisters in the Body of Christ who have been silenced by the...

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Bashir Musa Ahmed (39), a believer in Ethiopia who was arrested in May 2009 for the "malicious"...

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Family saying good-bye
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Photos from Village of HopeSixteen Christian foreign workers in an...

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Father Mzen Ishoa
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Three relatives of Father Mzen Ishoa, a Syro-Catholic priest who was...