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Opposition Increasing Day by Day
Two Gospel for Asia missionaries, Balji and Jeeram, serve in Jharkhand, India. They are experiencing opposition that, sadly, is becoming common in that state. “Pray for Jharkhand as the opposition is increasing day by day,” wrote GFA’s correspondent. … Read entire article »
Filed under: Christian, Gospel for Asia, India, Persecution
Corrie Ten Boom on Persecution – Video
Miss Corrie Ten Boom was a Dutch survivor of the Nazi Concentration Camps, and a lifelong missionary. Corrie was a believer in facing tribulation. She was one of the many people who were persecuted in concentration camps during the World War II. Her family was murdered before her eyes, but though her life was threatened, God led her through that terrible time. She lived to testify all over the world of how God brought her out of that time of trouble. In the worst days in the concentration camp she and her sister Betsy discovered that “there is no pit so deep that the Presence of God is not there with us”. … Read entire article »
Filed under: Christian, Persecution, Video
Buddhists Drive Christians from Home
Compass Direct News reports: DHAKA, Bangladesh – Buddhist villagers in southeastern Bangladesh’s Rangamati district last week beat a young father and drove him from his house for converting to Christianity. The Buddhists in Asambosti, in the Tabalchari area some 300 kilometers (186 miles) southeast of Dhaka, warned Sujan Chakma, 27, not to return to his home after beating him on Dec. 18. Chakma, who converted to Christianity about four months ago, has come back to his home but some nights the likelihood of attacks forces him to remain outside. He is often unable to provide for his 26-year-old wife, Shefali Chakma, and their 6-year-old son, as area residents opposed to his faith refuse to give him work as a day laborer. Chakma, his wife and son do not eat on days he does … Read entire article »
Filed under: Bangladesh, Buddhism, Christian, Compass Direct, Persecution
Chinese Government Launches Attacks Against Christians During Christmas Season
By Dan Wooding, Founder of ASSIST Ministries CHINA – ChinaAid has reported to ANS that the Chinese government has targeted Christians in Henan province, Anhui province, and Xinjiang Autonomous Region between December 21 and December 24. A ChinaAid spokesperson said that on Christmas Eve in Henan province, nine Christian women were arrested during a nativity play and are still being held by police. In Anhui province on December 22, officials arrested 19 students and two house church leaders and threatened to demolish their house church building. On December 21 in Xinjiang Autonomous Region, a house church was forbidden to gather and the pastor threatened with arrest. … Read entire article »
Filed under: Assist News Service, China, Christian, Persecution
Christians Beaten and Registered Church in Jiangsu Province Demolished
By Michael Ireland Chief Correspondent, ASSIST News Service JIANGSU, CHINA (ANS) — Police, real estate developers, and government officials from Yancheng city, Jiangsu province, together with nearly a thousand unidentified people, forcibly demolished the Chengnan Christian Church of Tinghu District, on the morning of December 17, 2008. … Read entire article »
Filed under: Assist News Service, China, Christian, Persecution
