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Bangladesh has reportedly blocked the website of leading Christian rights activist, author and journalist William Nicholas Gomes, who now lives in exile amid fears of repercussions. Speaking from his hiding place in Hong Kong, he said, that the government of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina became upset about his writings, including a critical poem on injustices [...]

The Iranian government is said to be launching a new wave of persecution against Christians. According to the Daily Caller, the regime has ordered Iranian intelligence to infiltrate church groups in major Iranian cities. Agents are identifying pastors and other Christians, targeting them for arrest and torture in prison. Former member of the Iranian Revolutionary [...]

SEOUL North Korea’s system of prison camps has turned more brutal in recent years but also more difficult to hide, according to new research based on defector testimonies and satellite imagery. Two recent reports, by researchers in the U.S. and South Korea, portray an acute desperation and horror inside North Korea’s notorious prison camps—a closed [...]

A devoted Christian family in India’s eastern state of West Bengal said Friday, June 1, they fear for their lives after Muslim “extremists” raided their house church meeting, injured believers and threatened to kill them. The troubles began March 30 when “about 100 Islamists gathered [nearby] began shouting anti-Christian slogans and threatened to murder us,” [...]

More than 70 students were kicked out of dormitories in a South Coast college for refusing to follow Islamic customs and rules, The Mercury reported on Thursday. Management at the Coastal As-Salaam campus, in Braemar near Umzinto, allegedly forced students in the dormitories to study the Quran and wear Muslim clothes. They were reportedly not [...]