Twelve-year-old Saree has faced severe persecution in her short life. Born deaf to a Hindu family, the young girl found Jesus and healing. But when her family discovered her new-found faith, they beat her and attempted to force her to turn away. Saree’s faith remained strong, however, and despite being disowned by her biological family, she has embraced her spiritual family.
A brigade of gendarmerie showed up at an evangelical worship site in Algeria on Monday (Aug. 26) to execute the latest of several church closure orders from provincial authorities, but Christian leaders thwarted the attempt.
“After murdering them, the Islamists warned all the other villagers that if they did not convert to Islam, they too, would be killed.”
More than 500 Christians kidnapped in four years in Kaduna state, Christian leader says.
The Hindu nationalists shouting at Christian leaders who were summoned to a police station in southern India asked what gave them the right to lead Christian congregations in a Hindu country.
After being detained for eight months, an elder at the Early Rain Covenant Church in China was released from prison this week.
A pastor in India reportedly miraculously survived after being beaten nearly to death by a Hindu communist group.
Amidst a violent climate towards faith leaders, a Mexican pastor was shot and killed during a church service on Sunday.
After the killing of a Roman Catholic priest and a parishioner in southeastern Nigeria earlier this month, another clergyman on Thursday (Aug. 15) narrowly escaped an attack by Muslim Fulani herdsmen about 40 miles away, sources said.
The husband of a 32-year-old mother of two children in Somalia had just discovered that his wife owned a Bible and demanded that she reveal who had given it to her.
