Three Christians were killed and over 400 Christian homes were burned by extremist mobs as the violence continues this week in Orissa. Read the entire Compass Direst report if you have the stomach for it, the details are rather brutal.            *Top

 The Freedom From Religion Foundation filed a lawsuit Friday (10/3/08) in U.S. district court, over The National Day of Prayer.
The suit argues that the president’s yearly proclamations calling on and encouraging Americans to pray every year for the country on the first Thursday of May, violates a constitutional ban on endorsing religion.
Response: This is [...]

There is a new law that was preliminarily passed by the Iran’s parliament, which would mandate the death penalty for anybody convicted of apostasy. Currently, apostasy is punishable by death in Iran, but the final decision rests with a judge. Very few have been executed under the current law.
If this new law is implemented, [...]

   leaders of the Christian India community in greater Chicago held a press conference and announced that today (Sunday) they will hold a peace rally in support of the persecuted Christians in India’s state of Orissa.
The following appeal was sent by Bishop Rt. Rev. Dr. Mar Jacob Angadiath of St. Thomas Syro-Malabar Catholic Diocese of [...]

Found this over at the Persecution Blog a new U.S. State Department 2008 Report on International Religious Freedom. Here is the current list of offending nations that are the worst at restricting the freedom of religion—and the ‘winners’ for 2008 are:
 Burma, China, North Korea, Iran, Sudan, Eritrea, Saudi Arabia, and Uzbekistan.
There are really [...]

The federal government of India warned the states that they might step in to take control if the violence and persecution against Christians continues.
Meanwhile, it has spread to a number of different states and now there has even been an incident in the capital city–New Delhi.
Here is a Compass Direct article detailing specific [...]

                   Cry Out America!
Every State, Every County, Every Heart On Thursday, September 11th 2008 at Noon local time, people will be praying and crying out to God for a new Awakening in America! To find out if there is a Coordinator for your county, please click here, [...]

Here is a CT article which contains an interview of Hindu radicals in Northern India that boldly proclaim that they intend to continue persecuting Christians and destroying or eliminating all of them:
"Now we have risen and we will destroy them all."

The article lists 41 different incidents of persecution perpetrated against Christians–their stated goal and [...]

Two Christians were recently kidnapped and killed by Islamic fundamentalists in Mosul, Iraq. According to the news report, a large ransom was paid for Dr. Tariq Qattan but he was killed anyway by the terrorists. On the same day, another Christian, Nafi Haddad, was also kidnapped and killed. Kidnapping Christians has become a far [...]

In an interview with Baptist Press, Yu Jie a leader in the Ark Church in Beijing spoke out about the Olympics and the continuation of persecution of Christians in China. He was placed under house arrest just before and during the Olympic games in Beijing.
He talks about his own conversion to Christianity and the [...]