Posted by Persecution.com NewsRoom On June - 23 - 2009 Comments Off

UPDATE: Praise God! On June 13, Christians arrested by plain clothes police, after visiting Christian villages in Laos, were released without incident, according to The Voice of the Martyrs contacts.
The believers were released without any problems, and they were not required to pay any fines. The police questioned them for hours and wanted to find out if they were resistance movement. When the police found out they were Christians, they were...
Posted by Persecution.com NewsRoom On June - 22 - 2009 Comments Off

Is secret Christian work "illegal"?
Ever wondered what to do when you are faced with a choice between breaking the law and following God? Didn’t Jesus tell us to “render unto Cesar” what is his? So whose law do we follow?
At The Voice of the Martyrs, we have to think about these issues all the time. In many of the countries we work in, it is against the law to print, sell, import or distribute Bibles or Christian...
Posted by Persecution.com NewsRoom On June - 22 - 2009 Comments Off

Asia Bibi, a 37-year-old Pakistani woman from the village of Ittanwali, was arrested by police on Friday, June 19, and faces possible blasphemy charges. Asia is the wife of 50-year-old Ashiq Masih, and their family is one of only three Christian families in a village of more than 1,500 families.
Many of the local women work on the farm of Muslim landowner Muhammad Idrees, including Asia. During their work many of the Muslim women have...