Archive | July 23, 2012
Syria. Christians believe that they will have no place in Syria if Mr. Assad leaves power.

Syria. Christians believe that they will have no place in Syria if Mr. Assad leaves power.

More than 19,000 people, most of them civilians, have been killed since March last year, in violence in Syria since the outbreak of an anti-regime revolt last year, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Sunday. ZAHLEH, Lebanon—Syria’s conflict, increasingly characterized as a Muslim sectarian war, is now also threatening to engulf the country’s estimated [...]

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China. The local authorities often go door-to-door searching and confiscating Bibles.

China. The local authorities often go door-to-door searching and confiscating Bibles.

The government of Mengka Township, Ximeng County, Yunnan Province has long suppressed the development of Christianity, persecuting minority ethnic Christians and Han [Chinese] missionaries, and strictly banning personal ownership of the Bible. Mengka Township, Ximeng County, Yunnan Province, on the border with Myanmar, has been home to the Wa minority for many generations. Across the [...]

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