A woman attends a mass inside a church on Easter Day in New Delhi March 31, 2013. Holy Week is celebrated in many Christian traditions during the week before Easter. | (Photo: Reuters/Mansi Thapliyal)
A Christian woman who was eight months pregnant lost her baby after Hindu extremists attacked her, pushing her to the ground and kicking her stomach in central India’s Madhya Pradesh state.
Morning Star News reports that a group of Christians in Dewada village, Barwani District had organized a church service of thanksgiving and prayer ahead of the New Year. The service, planned from 8 p.m. to 1 a.m., was open to all, and a celebration meal was planned for the afternoon of Jan. 1.
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Around the world there are 340 million Christians facing high persecution for their faith.
Voice of the Martyr s has just released its 2021 Global Prayer Guide, helping people pray for Christians that need it most due to persecution.
For people who are interested, the 100-page guide offers backgrounds, insights, and specific requests from people and places that may not be highlighted in the media.
Todd Nettleton with VOM USA says that the persecuted Church consistently asks to share needs with their Christian brothers and sisters so that they might pray for them.
Beijing reportedly worried over projected Church growth
Thursday, February 4, 2021 |
Michael F. Haverluck (OneNewsNow.com)
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In the face of rife persecution and Beijing s increased crackdown on churches, Chinese Christians are projected to number upwards of 300 million by 2030 – constituting a movement that is bringing Chinese President Xi Jinping more and more unrest.
Ron Boyd-MacMillan, the strategic research director of Open Doors USA, tells the British website Express UK that the predicted growth of the Church bothers the Chinese leadership to the point of being scared that they ll have to share power.
Escalating hard times
Boyd-MacMillan credits the rising numbers for Jinping s ramped-up attack on Christians nationwide – which is predicted to only get worse – especially taking into consideration that Open Doors World Watch List ranks China as #17 of 50 when it comes to countries where Christian persecution is the worst.
Pakistan’s Layers of Persecution: Education
From an early age, students in Pakistan are told to be intolerant of non-Muslims, which is reinforced by behavior modeled and tolerated by Pakistan’s educators.
By William Stark Karachi, Pakistan - April 16, 2011: Group of slum children from a poor Pakistani family in a rural part of Karachi, Pakistan.Poverty is one of the major social problem in Pakistan. It is higher in rural areas and lower in the cities.
02/03/2021 Washington, D.C. (International Christian Concern) – The persecution of Christians in Pakistan is severe and complex. Pakistani Christians are treated as second-class citizens simply because of their religious identity as non-Muslims. Christians face many forms of abuse, including false blasphemy accusations, physical assaults, attacks on places of worship, abductions, and forced conversions to Islam.
Islamic extremists hack 36 to death with machetes, including Christian pastor in DRC
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Islamic extremists hack 36 to death with machetes, including Christian pastor in DRC
Islamic extremists hack 36 to death with machetes, including Christian pastor in DRC
Congolese opposition supporters chant slogans during a march to press President Joseph Kabila to step down in the Democratic Republic of Congo s capital Kinshasa September 19, 2016. | (Photo: Reuters/Kenny Katombe/File Photo)
Suspected Islamist militants hacked to death over 30 people, including an Anglican pastor, in overnight attacks on villages in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo.