Weekly Prayer Updates

Zafar Bhatti has been held in prison for 12 years on allegations of blasphemy. Although initially sentenced to life imprisonment in 2017, the Christian man's punishment was changed to the death penalt...

A twenty-four-year-old Christian mother of two, Saima Bibi, was working last month with her husband, Shahzad Masih, on the farm of two Muslim landlords in Faisalabad District, Pakistan. Relatives had ...

Sixty-year-old Christian prisoner of conscience Mina Khajavi is reported to be struggling with pain and unable to access the medical care she requires inside Tehran’s Evin Prison. The Christian conv...

One of the founding fathers of the Full Gospel Church in Eritrea has died in prison. Reverend Ghirmay Araya was arrested in 2021. He was never charged with any crime. He suffered from diabetes and re...

More people fled Cuba in 2022 than ever before in the country’s 64-year history as a communist regime. According to United States government data, 250,000 Cubans, or two percent of the country’s p...

In a village in East Java on Wednesday 8 May, the head of the Citizen Association in the Benowo area, along with his wife and son, stood outside a house church at about 7pm shouting for the 30 members...

The case of Chen Wensheng, who was charged with “organising and funding illegal gatherings,” was tried in the Hengyang City, Shigu District People’s Court on the morning of 18 April 2024. Severa...

In one district of southern Kazakhstan, police in March and April conducted raids on four worship meetings of three local Protestant churches. Officers filmed those present, demanded that some write s...

Over 100 Protestants were forced to flee from two neighbouring villages on 26 April, after village leaders cut off their electricity, vandalised and blocked access to their church and some of their ho...