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Myanmar’s new Speaker represents ethnic minorities

February 10, 2016 Myanmar Aung San Suu Kyi, Baptists, Kachin, Karen, Minorities, Myanmar

An ethnic Karen Christian has been selected as Speaker, a senior job in Myanmar’s Upper House that is seen as a reconciliation effort towards the country’s ethnic minorities, . Mahn Win Khaing Than was appointed by Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy party, which swept to power in Myanmar’s first . . . Read More

Iranians await appeal verdict

February 10, 2016 Iran Iran, Proselytism, Shush

Four Iranian Christians are awaiting the verdict of an appeal against their one-year jail sentences for spreading Christianity in Iran. Amin Khaki, Hossein Barounzadeh, Mohammad Bahrami and Rahman Bahmani were sentenced in October 2015. Their appeal was heard on 1 Feb. and the judge is expected to give a ruling . . . Read More

Imprisoned Mexican Protestants allowed home

February 10, 2016 Mexico Catholics, Chiapas, Exile, Mexico, Pentecostals, Protestants, Religious freedom

Two Mexican Protestants who were imprisoned and then expelled from their community for refusing to renounce their faith have been allowed to return to their homes with a guarantee of full religious freedom. Casto Hernández, 31, and his cousin Juan Placido Hernández, 26, of the United Pentecostal Church of Mexico, . . . Read More

Evangelicals targeted in Cameroon bomb attacks?

February 9, 2016 Cameroon Boko Haram, Cameroon, Nguetchewe, Union of Evangelical Churches

At least four people were injured in attacks by two suicide bombers on the evening of 8 Feb. in Nguetchewe, northern Cameroon. The attackers – a man and a woman – appear to have targeted members of Cameroon’s Union of Evangelical Churches (UECC). One attack was on the home of . . . Read More

Italy takes 1,000 refugees via humanitarian visas

February 9, 2016 Ethiopia, Europe, Italy, Lebanon, Migrants, Morocco, North Africa, Refugees, Syria

Italian Protestant churches will help settle 1,000 refugees arriving there this month through a “humanitarian corridor” from camps in Lebanon, Morocco and Ethiopia. The refugees, including both Christians and Muslims, will travel under the safety of humanitarian visas so they are not tempted to risk deadly sea crossings to Europe. . . . Read More

India: fines for saying ‘Christian’ prayers

February 8, 2016 India Anti-conversion law, BJP, Converts, Hindu nationalism, India, Madhya Pradesh

Four people have received fines for practising Christianity from a village council in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh. One of the men, Shankar Singh, that they were fined 5,000 rupees (US$75) each. The arrests followed accusations by a Hindu group that the people at the gathering were attempting to . . . Read More

Burkina Faso: Australian Christian woman freed

February 8, 2016 Burkina Faso Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, Burkina Faso, Djibo, Islamic extremism, Ken Elliott, Kidnapping, Ouagadougou

Islamic militants have freed an Australian woman who was kidnapped with her husband last month in Burkina Faso, . Jocelyn Elliott and her husband Ken, a medical doctor, were snatched on 15 Jan. by al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) from Djibo, near the border with Mali. The couple, who are . . . Read More

Roman, Russian patriarchs to meet in Cuba

February 5, 2016 Russia Moscow, Patriarch Kirill, Russia, Russian Orthodox Church

The first-ever meeting of the Roman pontiff and the head of the Russian Orthodox Church is scheduled for 12 Feb. in Cuba, . that the subject of their conversation will be “persecution of Christians in the modern world”. Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia is the only patriarch of . . . Read More

Egypt returns confiscated SAT-7 equipment

February 5, 2016 Egypt Cairo, Censorship, Egypt

Egyptian authorities have returned all the equipment they had earlier confiscated from SAT-7 local offices, (Feb.2). This comes more than three months after the country’s censorship police , seizing computers and production equipment. On October 10, 2015, the authorities came to the SAT-7 Cairo offices with a search warrant. Country . . . Read More

Indian priest in critical condition after attack

February 4, 2016 India Anti-conversion law, Converts, India, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh

An Indian priest is in a critical condition in hospital, after he and three lay officials were attacked by a mob in the southern state of Tamil Nadu, . Fr. Jose Kannumkuzhy and the laymen were attacked by a group of around 35 men, as they waited in a car . . . Read More

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Catching Our Eye

Catching Our Eye

Myanmar’s new Speaker represents ethnic minorities

Iranians await appeal verdict

Imprisoned Mexican Protestants allowed home

Evangelicals targeted in Cameroon bomb attacks?

Italy takes 1,000 refugees via humanitarian visas

India: fines for saying ‘Christian’ prayers

Burkina Faso: Australian Christian woman freed

Roman, Russian patriarchs to meet in Cuba

Egypt returns confiscated SAT-7 equipment

Indian priest in critical condition after attack

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