Tag: Christian persecution

Iranian lawyer imprisoned, sentenced to 9 years

Originally published in Mission Network News Human rights watchdog Amnesty International is demanding freedom for lawyer Mohammad Ali Dadkhah. He’s currently detained in Tehran’s notorious Evin prison, sentenced to nine years of imprisonment. “I was in a court in Tehran defending one of my clients–a jailed political activist on death […]

Judicial ‘scandal’ clouds Turkey murder trial

Originally published in Baptist Press A cloud has been cast on the Turkish courtroom where proceedings began Sept. 3 against 19 suspects in the murder of three Christians in 2007. At issue: Both prosecutors and two of the three judges were replaced Sept. 1. Of particular shock was the removal […]

Perpetrators of Turkey’s ‘Malatya Massacre’ put on trial

Military officials accused of masterminding attack, manipulating investigation By Open Doors News Nineteen suspects accused of inciting the brutal 2007 murders of three Christians in eastern Turkey went on trial before Malatya’s Third Criminal Court in early September. With the court’s acceptance in June of a third indictment in the […]

The tip of the iceberg of Christian persecution

Originally published in Aina Two Christians living in the Islamic world under arrest and awaiting execution–the one charged with apostasy, the other with blasphemy–were just released. According to a September 8 report on CNN, “A Christian pastor sentenced to death in Iran for apostasy was reunited with his family Saturday […]

Moscow destroys Russian Pentecostal church

Originally published in Worthy Christian News A congregation of evangelical Christians in Russia’s capital Moscow were without a church building Tuesday, September 11, after workers with bulldozers and other equipment destroyed their Holy Trinity Pentecostal Church complex, protected by local police, witnesses said. Photo’s obtained by Worthy News showed a […]