Asia

South Korea - Prayers for the Church

01 Oct 2019
With ever-escalating political divides and turmoil sadly being superimposed on the church, many churches in Korea have split apart, made strife with one another, and altogether have been too eager to find reasons…

China: harvesting human organs from religious minorities

01 Oct 2019
China is killing religious and ethnic minorities and harvesting their organs, UN Human Rights Council told. Lawyers for independent China Tribunal say UN member states have ‘legal obligation’ to act. The Chinese government…

Saudi Arabia / Iran: tensions

26 Sep 2019
Tensions between powerful Middle East rivals Saudi Arabia and Iran were catapulted to new levels when drones set two Saudi Arabian oil refineries ablaze on 14 September, resulting in halving the Gulf kingdom’s…

India: Christians threatened for distributing tracts

26 Sep 2019
Leo and Jenifa Johnson were intimidated and threatened in a residential area of Tamil Nadu state where they had distributed Christian tracts to homes. As they were leaving the area they were stopped…

Iraq: the last church standing

26 Sep 2019
There are almost 20,000 ordained ministers in England; in Iraq there is just one, Rev Faez Jirjees, the parish priest at St George's church in Baghdad. Christians make up about 1% of Iraq’s…

Afghanistan: crises

20 Sep 2019
On 19 September 30+ civilians were killed and 40+ injured in an air attack that accidentally targeted farmers, and 20+ people were killed in a suicide car bomb that hit a hospital. 74…

Afghanistan, Iran: suffering but growing church

20 Sep 2019
We praise God that hundreds of new Iranian and Afghan believers have been baptised in recent months in cities across the region. In Iran, these include teenagers who were deeply impacted recently by…

China: Ten Commandments replaced

20 Sep 2019
A believer says the Chinese government doesn’t want Christians to know the Ten Commandments, which have been removed from nearly every state church and meeting venue and replaced with quotations from a 2015…

Israel: Judaism’s place in politics

20 Sep 2019
Religious Jewish parties won nearly 20% of the vote in the national election on 17 September. Previously, those parties have united with the conservative Likud party to form a governing coalition. But now…

Israel: pray for snap elections

12 Sep 2019
Following April’s elections Benjamin Netanyahu failed to form a governing coalition, the first such failure in Israeli history. Snap elections will now be held on 17 September. The polls predict another election result…
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