Weekly Prayer Updates

In the early morning of 16 September, a mob consisting of approximately 50 people had gathered at the front gate of the Maranatha Chapel in Depok City. Mob members angrily banged on the gate while sho...

A young Christian boy was recently badly beaten by his Muslim schoolteacher after he allegedly committed a blasphemous act in class. The incident, which took place in the Pakistani city of Khanewal, h...

Pastor Matthew leads a small church in northern Kenya. Every Sunday as he preaches, Muslims from the surrounding neighbourhood pummel the church with rocks. They occasionally throw stones at the home ...

An Iranian-Armenian pastor handed himself into prison in Tehran on 18 September to begin a 10-year sentence for engaging in “propaganda contrary to and disturbing to the holy religion of Islam”. ...

In May 2021, 13-year-old Nayab Gill was forcibly converted and married to a 30-year-old Muslim man named Saddam Hayat. Despite court challenges, custody was given to her ‘husband’. A year later, r...

Ghazal, a woman living in Jordan, has faced frequent beatings from her Muslim husband after making the decision to become a Christian. Ghazal, who left Islam to follow Christ, was beaten so severely r...

Another church building operated by a Registered Baptist congregation was seized by force by occupying authorities in Eastern Ukraine earlier this month, with authorities allegedly claiming that a min...

Ton, 18, and Tan, 16, are sisters who became Christians and have been harassed repeatedly for this decision. Recently, their mother said that she would sell her daughters to any man who makes an of...

Persecution of Christians in Vietnam frequently occurs in the highland areas. The government restricts religious freedom through legislation, registration requirements, and by harassing and intimidati...