Asia
Christians have been targetted in three recent incidents of persecution in Sri Lanka, according to the National Christian Evangelical Alliance of Sri Lanka. In Batticaloa, eastern Sri Lanka, around 7:40 am on 21 October soon ...
Ethnic minority Christian refugees rounded up in August are being separated by Thai authorities. Adults are being held in a detention centre and their children are elsewhere. “I’m very scared, I’m in here by myself but ...
Aasia Bibi remains in fear of her life in protective custory in Pakistan a week after a Supreme Court exoneration which should have led to her immediate release and secure asylum in another country. In ...
Mass protests are being staged against the Aasia Bibi ‘not guilty’ verdict in Pakistan’s cities. Police moved to protect Youhannabad, Lahore’s largest Christian community. Other protests are underway in Islamabad, Karachi and Peshawar following the announcement ...
Aasia Bibi has been found ‘not guilty’ of all charges of blasphemy by Pakistan’s Chief Justice Saqib Nasir. Protests by Islamist groups and political parties are being staged in major Pakistani cities and the beleaguered Christian community ...
City administrators in the provincial capital of Jambi, Indonesia, shut down three churches on Thursday 27 September, claiming they did not have a permit to meet. Officials met with members of the churches’ management and told ...
The Pakistan Islamist Tehreek-i-Labbaik party has threatened to paralyse the country within hours if the Supreme Court releases Aasia Bibi, a Christian woman sentenced to death for “blasphemy” in 2010. Local leaders have already been called ...
Two Pakistani Christian brothers were treated like criminals by Thai authorities and shared a cell the size of a living room with 100 men for nine months in a notorious Bangkok immigrant detention centre. “Saleem”, a ...
More than 1,000 government agents, including police, forced their way into an unofficial church in Henan province on 14 September and removed items from the building. Church members had locked the church doors, but the officials ...
A young Christian Sunday School teacher gave her own life to save the children she was teaching from the deadly earthquake which hit the Indonesian island of Sulawesi on 28 September. Flo Renshy was teaching children ...
