Tag: Christian persecution

Libya to release 4 jailed missionaries, including SA woman

Originally Published in Christianity Today Libya has announced that it will free from jail four foreign missionaries who were arrested last month on allegations of evangelism, according to Bloomberg News. Citing “homeland security” concerns, police arrested the missionaries on charges of printing and distributing Christian pamphlets in Benghazi. It originally […]

Malatya massacre’s widow awaiting Turkish citizenship

Suzanne Geske, the widow of Tillmann Geske, who was killed in the 2007 Malatya Zirve Publishing House massacre, has applied for Turkish citizenship a second time after first being refused a passport. Geske told the Hürriyet Daily News that she made the second application 10 months but had yet to […]

Concern mounts over Christian pastors in Iranian prisons

Originally published in The Baptist Times A British charity has expressed its concern over the deteriorating health of a pastor imprisoned in Iran. Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW) has learned that Pastor Benham Irani, currently held in Ghezal Hesar prison in Iran, is now unable to walk and that medical assistance […]