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CHINA: MORE EARLY RAIN CHURCH MEMBERS DETAINED, BEATEN

CHINA: MORE EARLY RAIN CHURCH MEMBERS DETAINED, BEATEN

A minister from the Early Rain Covenant Church in Chengdu, China was held in police custody on the weekend of May 8-9, and four church members were questioned with two being beaten while attempting to bring him food. The actions against Early Rain Church were the latest since an April 21 police raid on a tutoring program operated by ...

CHINA: PASTOR TEACHES THE BENEFITS OF SUFFERING IN A LETTER TO HIS PERSECUTED CHURCH

CHINA: PASTOR TEACHES THE BENEFITS OF SUFFERING IN A LETTER TO HIS PERSECUTED CHURCH

The administrative detention of two ministers of Beijing’s Zion Church by Chinese authorities earlier this month has prompted a response from Zion’s pastor: A letter to his congregation teaching the spiritual benefits of persecution. “Those in chains for Christ will be completely free in Christ," wrote Pastor “Ezra” Jin Mingri, in an open letter to Zion Church members on May 1, co-signed by the church’s elders ...

CHINA: POLICE RAID EARLY RAIN CHURCH TUTORING PROGRAM, DETAIN YOUTH AND PARENTS

CHINA: POLICE RAID EARLY RAIN CHURCH TUTORING PROGRAM, DETAIN YOUTH AND PARENTS

On April 21, more than 10 police officers of Chengdu City Wenjiang District entered a residence, seizing four adult members of Early Rain Covenant Church and 12 adolescents who were participating in a tutoring program operated by the church at the location. Three Christians living at the residence were also detained. It is the latest ...

AS RUSSIA-UKRAINE TENSIONS SOAR, VOM LAUNCHES MAJOR BIBLE DISTRIBUTION IN THE REGION

AS RUSSIA-UKRAINE TENSIONS SOAR, VOM LAUNCHES MAJOR BIBLE DISTRIBUTION IN THE REGION

The long-simmering conflict between Russia and Ukraine saw tensions reach their highest levels since 2014 this week, as an estimated 100,000 Russian troops amassed on the Ukraine border in what Russia described as a “snap inspection” of its military readiness in the region. The action drew calls of concern from the United States and the ...

TOP EUROPEAN GOSPEL GROUP’S SONG CELEBRATES BIBLE BALLOON LAUNCHING TO NORTH KOREA

TOP EUROPEAN GOSPEL GROUP’S SONG CELEBRATES BIBLE BALLOON LAUNCHING TO NORTH KOREA

The Netherlands’ Country Trail Band, one of Europe’s most popular country gospel groups, is commemorating the North Korean Bible balloon launches of Korean NGO Voice of the Martyrs with a song. The song, “Straight into the Heart”, which appears on the group’s album of the same name, says in the chorus, “The word of God ...

VIETNAM: CHRISTIANS DENIED PUBLIC SERVICES, TOLD “LET YOUR GOD SAVE YOU!”

VIETNAM: CHRISTIANS DENIED PUBLIC SERVICES, TOLD “LET YOUR GOD SAVE YOU!”

81-year-old Sister ‘D’ (name withheld for security purposes) lives alone in a tiny hut on a remote mountain field in Tuyen Quang province in northern Vietnam. She previously lived with her family in a nearby village. But last summer when she became a Christian, she was rejected by her family, forced out of their home, ...

CHRISTIAN AID WORKER IMPRISONED FOR HIS FAITH IN SUDAN, NEARLY KILLED BY ISIS CELLMATES: “GOD HAD A PURPOSE”

CHRISTIAN AID WORKER IMPRISONED FOR HIS FAITH IN SUDAN, NEARLY KILLED BY ISIS CELLMATES: “GOD HAD A PURPOSE”

In December 2015, Czech-born Christian aid worker Petr Jasek went on a 4-day visit to Sudan to check on burned church buildings and persecuted Christians. But what was intended as a brief stay turned into a life sentence for spying and an eventual 445 days in prison with hardened IS fighters as his cell mates. ...

“TORTURED FOR CHRIST” MOVIE AVAILABLE FOR FREE ONLINE VIEWING FOR PASSION WEEK

“TORTURED FOR CHRIST” MOVIE AVAILABLE FOR FREE ONLINE VIEWING FOR PASSION WEEK

Voice of the Martyrs Korea is making its award-winning feature film “Tortured for Christ” available for free online viewing for Passion Week, beginning at 12:00AM Wednesday March 31 and continuing through Easter day April 4, at www.vomkorea.com/tfc/. “Tortured for Christ” tells the true story of Voice of the Martyrs founder Pastor Richard Wurmbrand, as written in ...

CHINA: RAID OF ELDERLY WOMEN’S CHURCH SHOWS COMMUNIST ANTI-CHRISTIAN STRATEGY EVOLVING

CHINA: RAID OF ELDERLY WOMEN’S CHURCH SHOWS COMMUNIST ANTI-CHRISTIAN STRATEGY EVOLVING

At approximately 10 am on Sunday February 28, several plainclothes police raided Chongqing Living Fountain Church, breaking up the small house church gathering and arresting two men, one of whom was preaching that day. The police confiscated a church computer and forced those attending to leave. Later, police pressured the landlord of the house hosting ...

SRI LANKA: TERRORIST ATTACK LEADS TO NEW WAVE OF CHURCH PLANTING

SRI LANKA: TERRORIST ATTACK LEADS TO NEW WAVE OF CHURCH PLANTING

This Easter marks the second anniversary of the deadly 2019 suicide bombing of Zion Church in Batticaloa, Sri Lanka. In that bombing, local Islamic jihadists used a so-called “Mother of Satan” bomb similar to the one used in IS-related attacks on churches in Indonesia in 2018. 31 were killed in the Zion Church attack, and ...