After two years of denying correspondence and four years of preventing his family from meeting with him, imprisoned Chinese Christian Zhang Haitao recently sent his family a letter from prison.
A recent report from the American Foundation for Relief and Reconciliation in the Middle East highlights the desperate circumstances facing many Iraqi Christians – both those residing in their country as well as those living as refugees.
For many years, the people of the Central African Republic have endured civil war as rebel groups fought against the ruling government.
Minister An Yankui and Zhang Chenghao were arrested and detained last November for attending a 2020 Christian conference in Malaysia, hosted by prominent Chinese-Indonesian Pastor Stephen Tong.
Fulani Militants attempted to rape a 16-year-old Christian girl on the morning of 8 August while she was walking with her mother to their farmland in Nkiendonwro village, roughly 32km from Jos, the capital of Plateau state.
Hmong Christians in the Nghe An province of Vietnam are suffering from severe persecution.