Eritrea: Arrests Continue
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Ninety Christians have been arrested
in Eritrea in the last two months, as authorities continue a campaign against Christians
that began in December. Six of the 90 arrested have been released, but the
location of the other 84 is unknown.
On June 2, 2011, police arrested 26 college
students from Mai-Mefhi College of Technology. Students were not given a reason
for their arrest, but Release Eritrea reports that the students may have been
arrested...
In another example of the ongoing crackdown against house churches in China, house church pastor Shi Enhao was sentenced to two years in a labor camp last month. Pastor Shi, who serves as deputy chairman of the Chinese House Church Alliance, was charged with “illegal meetings and illegal organizing of venues for religious meetings.” The charges stem from the fact that Pastor Shi’s house church of several thousand meets in...
More than 35,000 people have signed VOM’s “A Call for Mercy”
petition since the campaign was launched in July 2011. With a goal to gather 1
million signatures, VOM hopes to help secure the release of Asia Bibi, a
Christian wife and mother who was sentenced to death for blasphemy in Pakistan.
After her arrest, more than 150,000 Pakistani Christians signed a separate petition
demanding justice for persecution victims,...
Many Christians have fled the city of Maiduguri in northern
Nigeria, fearing large-scale attacks by Islamic extremists after months of
escalating violence. In the past few weeks, church attendance has dropped drastically
and police have boarded up many churches and placed them under police or
military guard, according to Compass Direct News. Leaders of the Christian
Association of Nigeria (CAN) have advised churches that remain open to...