Weekly Prayer Updates

Formerly under communist rule as a republic of the Soviet Union, Kazakhstan is one of Central Asia’s wealthiest nations because of its vast mineral resources. Islam has experienced a resurgence sinc...

A pastor and his family have gone into hiding after a Muslim neighbour, who had raped his 14-year-old daughter a month earlier, tried to kidnap her and force her to convert to Islam and marry him. ...

Sixty-three Cuban religious leaders have signed onto a joint declaration decrying the Cuban government’s continued systematic violation of freedom of religion or belief, in particular its refusal to...

A Christian convert has been sentenced to 10 years in prison on charges including engaging in “propaganda” by “propagating Christianity”, according to an Iranian Christian news site. The co...

An 18-year-old Catholic woman in Pakistan said police have refused to arrest a Muslim who abducted and raped her at gunpoint last week. Imaan Khurrum of Punjab Province told a Christian news channe...

Vague policies such as laws forbidding the conversion of Hindus have passed in several Indian states, and the push for a similar federal law has gained support. These state anti-conversion laws have l...

On 30 October a local group of Muslim extremists killed an evangelist in eastern Uganda after he and another Christian refused to convert to Islam. After three days of a scheduled six-day evangelis...

As Musa was serving as an imam in his village in East Africa, he kept hearing about his son, Saad, preaching the gospel throughout the village. Saad’s bold witness angered other local Muslim leaders...

Most Burman tribal members are Buddhist, while the Chin and Karen people groups identify as Christian. Churches in Myanmar are growing despite widespread persecution by the government and the Buddhist...