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.
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 >>>Continue reading >>>
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 >>>Continue reading >>>
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 >>>Continue reading >>>
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.