Articles on Persecution

• Formerly Detained Eritrean Christians Expose Harsh Treatment

  By Ethan Cole

  After five months in a tiny pitch-black cell, Hzkias, an Eritrean Christian jailed for his faith, said he "looked like another creature."

  Jul 04, 2009 | Comments 0

• Chinese Office Becomes New Force for Religious Repression

  By Sarah Page

  Amid vigorous debate among scholars in China on the status of house churches, one prominent scholar has suggested the government offer more openness and legal standing to house church Christians, but authorities have reacted with raids, arrests, forced church closures and a ban on the Chinese Federation of Christian House Churches.

  Jul 03, 2009 | Comments 1

• Helping Mend Shattered Lives in the Middle East

  By Open Doors

  Living and working in the Middle East means living and working in the midst of wreckage. Wherever you travel in the region you find the traces of conflict.

  Jul 02, 2009 | Comments 0

• Egyptian Court Grants Custody of Sons to Christian Mother

  By Michael Larson

  A Christian mother in Egypt has won custody of her twin sons from her estranged husband, who had converted to Islam and claimed them according to Islamic legal precepts.

  Jul 02, 2009 | Comments 1

• India Gov't Delivers First Conviction for Orissa Violence

  By Michelle A. Vu

  Nearly a year after the outbreak of anti-Christian violence in Orissa, India, the state government finally handed out its first conviction.

  Jul 02, 2009 | Comments 1

• Hindu Activist Slams Indian Official for Apologizing to Christians

  By John Malhotra

  Hindu hardliner and chief of the Rashtriya Hindu Sena, Pramod Muthalik, has criticized a India's top government official for apologizing to the victims of last year's anti-Christian violence.

  Jun 30, 2009 | Comments 2

• Top Indian Official Apologizes for Anti-Christian Violence

  By Dibin Samuel

  Appalled by the violence and its consequences on Christians in the communally sensitive Kandhamal, India's top government official apologized and offered adequate security and rehabilitation measures to help the affected start their lives newly.

  Jun 28, 2009 | Comments 13

• Indian Christian: Attacks Have Increased Our Faith

  By Dibin Samuel

  The wave of attacks on churches in Karnataka, India, have only "increased our faith and brought us together," says Archbishop Bernard Moras, whose noteworthy initiative has united churches of many denominations.

  Jun 26, 2009 | Comments 6

• Aid Group Exposes Myanmar State Violence Against Christian Minority

  By Nathanael Ng

  A Christian persecution aid group has released a report describing the state violence underlying the recent mass exodus of the Myanmar ethnic Karen people.

  Jun 23, 2009 | Comments 0

• Egypt Rejects 2nd Convert's Request to be Legally Christian

  By Ethan Cole

  A judge in Cairo recently rejected a request by a Muslim background believer in Egypt to legally change his religious status, marking the second time such a request was turned down in the predominantly Muslim country.

  Jun 19, 2009 | Comments 1