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2024-10-31

  • Preacher of Early Rain Church Faces Harassment
    Wu Wuqing
    Preacher Wu Wuqing
    Photo: ChinaAid
     

    Since December 2018, the Early Rain Covenant Church in Chengdu, China, has been subjected to repeated raids and ongoing oppression from Communist Party authorities who seek to shut down the influential unregistered church. Though the church's pastor, Wang Yi, is serving a nine-year prison sentence, members of the church continue to boldly reach out with the Gospel message.

  • Pastor John Cao and Colleague Detained for Conducting Baptisms
    John Cao is baptizing a believer.
    Pastor John Cao baptizing a believer.
    Photo: ChinaAid
     

    On March 4th, Pastor John Cao was released from imprisonment in China after serving a seven-year sentence. Since his release, the pastor has longed to return to the United States, where he holds permanent residency, in order to reunite with his wife and family there. However, the Chinese government has prevented Pastor John from leaving the country by withholding his ID card and passport. (Read more.)

  • Teen Girl Released from her Abductors
    Diya is standing with her parents and attorneys.
    Diya Iftikhar (third from left) with her parents and attorneys. 
    Photo: Christians True Spirit
     

    On September 12th, 16-year-old Diya Iftikhar was abducted from her family's home by three men who are well-known for their opposition to Christians. In a video message to her parents four days later, Diya stated that she had converted to Islam and married Ghazaal Jutt, one of her kidnappers. (Review a previous report.)

  • Bail Granted for Woman Accused of Blasphemy
    Two women are on a path in a village.
      

    In August of this year, two Christian sisters were accused of blasphemy when a Muslim man claimed to find ruined pages of the Quran amongst garbage, stating that one of the sisters had discarded them. Both sisters denied his allegation, believing that the pages were purposely placed there by the man himself because of the personal vendetta he had against them. (More about the situation is available here.)