Asia
NE Asia Prayer Summit Postponed
Prayer Summit 2020 Global Prayer for Northeast Asia Dear Delegates, It is with much deliberation and prayerful consideration that the Prayer Summit Organizing Team would like to announce the CANCELLATION AND POSTPONEMENT of…
Israel: Election and riot threats
On Monday 2 March, Israelis will, for the third time in a year, cast votes for a government. Proverbs 16:9 says ‘In their hearts humans plan their course, but the Lord establishes their…
Bangladesh: Christians abducted, attacked in refugee camp
Rohingya pastor, Taher, and his 14-year-old daughter were abducted from Bangladesh Cox’s Bazar a refugee camp after 59 men attacked 22 Christian families, beating residents, vandalising homes, and looting property. At least 12…
India: Organised religious violence in Delhi
Unrelenting violence consumes northeast Delhi as roving mobs with iron rods, sledgehammers and guns rampaged through the streets, committing arson, vandalism and terrifying residents since 22 February. On 27 February police said that…
China: Church facial recognition cameras
The government wanted to install facial recognition cameras in Pastor Xiang En’s church sanctuary. When he refused they did it anyway and gathered the private data of church members so that they could…
Christian safe houses on North Korea border
A woman who fled to China illegally was recently baptised, even though such an action could have resulted in her being repatriated and killed. Over two years ago, Bon-Hwa crossed the border into…
China: brave cry for help
Please watch this short and agonising video from China, a woman's desperate cry for help in the midst of the coronavirus epidemic. It confirms reports of the government suppressing news and ignoring doctors'…
Lebanon: Scouts are Hezbollah youth wing
The Scout movement is investigating an accusation that its Lebanon branch is training youths to become Islamic terrorists. The Imam Al-Mahdi Scouts has 45,000 boys and girls wearing traditional scouting uniforms and scarves.…
India: Christians attacked after meeting of 100,000
Police are investigating an attack on a bus carrying seventy Christians home from the national congress of the Synod of Pentecostal Churches in Tamil Nadu. Three men on motorcycles threatened passengers, smashed the…
Thailand: thousands of men trapped at sea
Imagine being on a ship and discovering you had been sold as a slave, not sure if you will ever see your family again. There is a form of human trafficking taking place…
