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1. Trump at UN: It Is an 'Urgent Moral Duty' to Stop Religious Persecutio

In what is a first for a sitting U.S. president, Mr. Trump spoke on the issue of religious freedom at the U.N. (Monday, Sept. 23) where he issued a global call to protect religious freedom. "Today with ...

Created on 24 September 2019

2. Cuban Officials Forbid Church Leaders to Attend Religious Freedom Event

Authorities in Cuba on Sunday, July 14, refused to allow the national presidents of two Christian denominations to board their flight to Washington, D.C., for a religious freedom event, sources said, according ...

Created on 24 July 2019

3. Christians Forced to 'Reconvert,' Bow Down to Goddess Idol

Christians who worshipped privately in their homes in a village in eastern India were dragged to local leaders last month and forced to bow to a goddess idol, sources said, according to Morning Star News. ...

Created on 18 July 2019

4. 7-Year-Old Boy Shot in Anti-Christian Attack

As a Baptist church member tried to fight off an armed Muslim Fulani herdsman in a village in north-central Nigeria, he told his 7-year-old nephew and other relatives to run. The boy remained, crying and ...

Created on 03 July 2019

5. Children Massacred in Assault on Christian Town

Five children playing near a monastery and one woman on a nearby street were killed as a result of heavy shelling on the Syrian Christian town of al-Suqaylabiyah came under heavy assault on May 12, 2019. ...

Created on 17 May 2019

6. Pastor Deeply Traumatized After Brutal Maoist Attack

An increase in persecution of Christians in Nepal began after a new criminal code was passed in October 2017, which took effect in August 2018. Nepal was ranked 32nd on Christian support organization Open ...

Created on 01 May 2019

7. Pakistani Prime Minister Announces Persecuted Christian Asia Bibi Will Be Freed in 2 Weeks

Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan has announced that Asia Bibi, the Christian woman whose death sentence for blasphemy against Islam was overturned, will leave the Muslim nation in two weeks and be reunited ...

Created on 17 April 2019

8. Pentecostal Leaders Prep for 'Fresh Outpouring' to Mark Anniversary of Historic Reviva

In the United States, revival fires began in the early 1990s under the ministry of South African-born evangelist Howard-Browne in upstate New York where it was reported that the power of the Holy Spirit ...

Created on 04 April 2019

9. Chinese Authorities Offer Substantial Reward to Snitch on Christians as Church Grows Like Wildfire

Those who report underground churches to authorities in China are going to be financially rewarded, according to Marcus Jones of London's Premier Radio. It's reported authorities in the city of Guangzhou ...

Created on 04 April 2019

10. Chinese Authorities Raid Bible Study, Ban Major House Church

More than 20 police officers and other Chinese government officials raided a Bible school class at Beijing's Shouwang Church. The authorities demanded the church to cease its activities immediately and ...

Created on 28 March 2019

11. Radical Islamists Kidnap Pastor, Priest in Latest Wave of Abductions

A Protestant pastor and a Catholic priest in two different states in north central Nigeria were kidnapped by gunmen on Monday (March 25), sources said, according to Morning Star News. Amid a nationwide ...

Created on 28 March 2019

12. Radical Islamists Slaughter at Least 40 Christians in Latest Attacks

Fulani herdsmen have killed at least 32 people in an attack on a Christian area of north-central Nigeria on Feb. 26, sources said. The early morning assault on villages in and around Maro, in Kajuru County ...

Created on 08 March 2019

13. Despite Supreme Court Ruling, Christian Mom Trapped in Jail, Fearing for Her Life

Asia Bibi, the Pakistani Christian woman whose death sentence for blasphemy charges was commuted last week, is trapped in a prison that has been converted into a safe house. Bibi, a mother of five from ...

Created on 07 November 2018

14. Christians Issue Urgent Call to Prayer in Wake of Violent Protests

Christians on the ground in Pakistan tell Open Doors USA partners that they are calling on their fellow Christians across Pakistan to pray and offer themselves for public service as violent protests break ...

Created on 02 November 2018

15. 'Something Very Special and Historic Is Happening'; Muslims Encounter Christ Through Dreams, Vision

More Muslims have come to faith in Christ in this generation than in the last 14 centuries of Islam combined. The Church in Iran is now estimated to be between 1 million and 3 million strong. That's the ...

Created on 24 October 2018

16. Days After Freeing Brunson, Turkey Arrests Another American Missionary

Evangelist David Byle has been arrested and ordered to leave Turkey just days after missionary Andrew Brunson was released. Marcus Jones, writing for Premier Radio in the United Kingdom, reports that evangelist ...

Created on 23 October 2018

17. Community Radio Rebuilds Hope After a Typhoon Ravaged This Country

In 2013, the worst storm in history hit the Philippines. But today, the community is recovering from the tragedy. Guidelines International Ministries (guidelines.org) has planted a community radio station ...

Created on 29 June 2018

18. One Week After the Summit, What's Happened to North Korea's 70,000 Imprisoned Christian

Among the topics discussed between Donald President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in historic talks Tuesday (June 12) between the two countries was denuclearization. However, President Trump ...

Created on 19 June 2018

19. Pentagon Warns of Major Incoming Cyberattacks—Are You at Risk?

Cyber experts have warned that within the next two or three weeks, the U.S. and other countries may face an even more widespread and damaging infrastructure cyberattack. Pentagon spokeswoman Dana White ...

Created on 24 April 2018

20. How Hollywood Legend Stephen Baldwin Transformed Himself Into Legendary Missionary Graham Staines

Based on a true story and shot on location in India, Staines stars Stephen Baldwin as Australian missionary Graham Staines, who finds himself at the center of an investigation by an ambitious reporter ...

Created on 13 March 2018