China did not charge them with being Christians. That is the whole point
Eight Beijing Zion Church leaders face trial for fraud and illegal business operations. The charges are the strategy.
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The guards stopped their prayers. Saudi Arabia has started the executions
Five Ethiopian Christians were executed on nonlethal drug charges after trials of minutes. At least 58 more wait in one Saudi prison.
Eight Hundred Incidents and One Question for India's Supreme Court
On July 15, two justices of India's Supreme Court sat down with a set of numbers that have been waiting four years for a verdict.
The petition in front of Justice P. S. Narasimha and Justice Alok Aradhe was filed by Rev. Dr. Peter Machado, the Catholic Archbishop
What Would Your File Say
Of everything the police carried out of those homes in Yueyang, it is not the Bibles I keep thinking about. It is the files.
On July 11, authorities in Yueyang, a city in China's Hunan province, raided a network of house churches. ChinaAid, which broke the story, reports
The Drone Watched the Monastery for Three Hours. Then It Fired.
The sisters were preparing grain.
It was the morning of Wednesday, July 22, at the Arsema monastery complex in Ethiopia's South Wollo zone, near the town of Mekane Selam in the Amhara region. The rainy season was coming, and the community was laying up stores to last through
They Were Attacked at Prayer. Then Egypt Arrested Them.
The stones came first. Then the handcuffs.
On the evening of July 8, in the village of El-Tal El-Qibliya in Egypt's Minya Province, dozens of residents surrounded the building where the village's Coptic Christians pray. They threw stones at the church doors. They threw
Christ the Answer, Permit Pending
The church is called Christ the Answer.
I keep turning the name over, because for nine years the church called Christ the Answer has been waiting for one. Nine years of signatures, identity cards, village office stamps, and recommendation letters. Nine years of doing everything asked of them, and then