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Originally published in Christian Examiner North Korea’s highest court sentenced 60-year-old Canadian pastor Hyeon Soo Lim to a life term of hard labor today for committing “crimes against the state.” Although the pastor has South Korean origins, he lives in Toronto and has traveled to North Korea on humanitarian missions for […]
Originally published in God Reports After coming to Christ through Leading The Way’s television broadcasts and on-the-ground follow-up, Muslim convert Shahid has started a significant church-planting network across North Africa and Europe. Shahid has even baptized several new believers on the same shores where the Islamic State (ISIS) terror group, […]
Originally published in The Gospel Herald Chinese authorities are increasingly targeting Chinese Christians in their hunt for “evil” cults. The growing number of Christians in China claimed that authorities are just using the crackdown on dangerous cults as an excuse, and in reality, curtailing momentous growth in their number. China […]
Originally published in CBN News Radical Muslims are pressuring officials to close churches and jail pastors in Indonesia. And that’s not all. The extremists stir up violent mobs to destroy the buildings and threaten believers. But that’s not stopping the Church from growing in the world’s largest Muslim-populated nation. Recently, […]
More than 2.5million people displaced in unprecedented humanitarian disaster By Illia Djadi — Originally published in World Watch Monitor A special report by IRIN, built on field visits to Nigeria’s north-eastern region which the military has re-taken from the Boko Haram insurgency, reveals an unprecedented humanitarian disaster in […]
Originally published in Christian Post Hundreds of Christian fighters from across Syria have united to defend a biblical Syrian Christian town from being conquered by the Islamic State terrorist organisation, the head of the Syriac Orthodox church has said. As IS militants continue to push west toward the Syrian capital […]
Originally published in World Watch Monitor Historic gathering of Christianity’s different traditions Twenty-five years ago, on November 4, 1990, a priest risked his life to hold a mass in a cemetery in Albania. In 1967 his president, Enver Hoxha, had declared he’d “abolished” Christian faith, and that his country was […]
Originally published in LifeSiteNews The City of Toronto is being threatened with legal action for refusing to grant a Christian group a permit to use a prominent downtown square for its annual musical festival next year, all because the city determined that singing the name of Jesus in the public […]
By Open Doors SA Open Doors’ International Days of Prayer (IDOP) is a global movement of intercessory prayer for the persecuted Church. From the 1st until the 8th of November 2015, Open Doors, and Christians around the world, will unite in prayer for the persecuted Church worldwide, with a special […]
Originally published in ACLJ A Christian church sits in ruins today in Omdurman, Sudan, and its congregation is left scrambling to find a makeshift meeting location in time for next Sunday. Our contact on the ground in Sudan reports to us that last week government officials appeared at the Evangelical […]