Weekly Prayer Updates

On 25 July, residents in Plateau State held a funeral procession for 27 Christians massacred in one village 10 days earlier, despite warning authorities of the impending danger, sources said. Accom...

A 14-year-old Christian boy from Sultan Town, Sargodha, who was reportedly kidnapped on 21 July, has appeared, claiming to have converted to Islam of his own free will. His elder brother, Sahil Masih,...

A prominent Protestant pastor in Wenzhou in China’s Zhejiang Province was informed that he had been formally arrested on charges of ‘illegal business operations’ for selling recordings of sermon...

A group of Muslim men forcibly disrupted worship and religious education activities at a prayer house belonging to the Indonesian Faithful Christian Church’s (GKSI) Anugerah Padang congregation on 2...

Saeid Mansour Abdulraziq, a Muslim background believer (MBB), was charged with joining a terrorist organisation, stirring unrest and spreading false news by Egypt’s state security court on 22 July. ...

A 65-year-old pastor in the Central Asian country of Kyrgyzstan has recently been sentenced to three years in prison. Pavel Shreider, who lives in the country’s capital, Bishkek, was arrested in ...

VOM Australia partners in Pakistan are helping to provide legal aid to Christian victims of targeted crimes. A 21-year-old Christian woman, Sheeza Bibi, was brutally gang raped inside her home on 1...

On 8 July, Sudanese authorities demolished a church complex in Khartoum North, with no warning to the church and its leaders. At about midday, two bulldozers, four trucks and three large vehicles l...

In Vietnam, new Christians in tribal areas are often evicted from their homes and villages by local authorities who view Christianity as a foreign threat. Some Christians are denied social services, u...