By Michael Ireland
Chief Correspondent, ASSIST News Service
GANSU, CHINA ANS — Several police officials went to a meeting site of a house church at Honghui Coal Mine in Pingchuan District, Baiyin City, Gansu Province on the afternoon of June 24, 2008. They detained Mr. Wang Fayun, a co-worker in charge of this gathering site and two >>>Continue reading >>>
GFA – On June 17, a group of women students from a Gospel for Asia Bible college faced humiliation and persecution as they distributed Gospel tracts in Andhra Pradesh, India. Anti-Christian extremists interrogated the women, and the attack eventually escalated into physical abuse at a bus station.
As the five women—all third-year Bible college students—passed out >>>Continue reading >>>
By James Varghese
Special to ASSIST News Service
ANDHRA PRADESH, INDIA (ANS) — A pastor was attacked and beaten up near Siddipet in the Medak district of Andhra Pradesh on Sunday, June 22 at 8pm. According to news reported in www.christiancouncil.in, he was Pastor Kinnera Kanankaiah.
The site reports that the incident took place as the pastor and >>>Continue reading >>>
Compass Direct News Reports that:
Security police officials in Tehran this month tortured a newly converted couple and threatened to put their 4-year-old daughter in an institution after arresting them for holding Bible studies and attending a house church.
A Christian source in Iran said that 28-year-old Tina Rad was charged with “activities against the holy religion >>>Continue reading >>>
BELARUS (ANS) — Belarus has imposed a fine of more than two months average wages on a Baptist who organized choral singing and talked about religious issues outside Ushachi public market.
Belarus is located in Eastern Europe, east of Poland.
A story by Geraldine Fagan writing for Forum 18 News Service reported that after a plain clothes >>>Continue reading >>>