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2024-11-07

  • Coordinated Raids on Beijing Church Meetings
    Beijing Zion Church members are gathered together, sitting on chairs.
    One of the Beijing Zion Church congregations.
    Photo: ChinaAid
     

    On the morning of October 20th, multiple branches of the Beijing Zion Church had gathered for their usual worship services when police and religious affairs officials simultaneously forced their way into the meetings. The identities of everyone present were recorded and 12 people, including pastors and church members, were taken into custody.

  • Bail Granted for Christians Facing Blasphemy Charges
    Zimran Asim is standing with his lawyer. There is a poster behind them which reads, "[Stand] up for your rights. The Voice Society."
    Zimran Asim with his lawyer.
    Photo: Christian Daily International-Morning Star News
     

    The previous week's Persecution & Prayer Alert reported on an unusual case in which bail was granted to Saima Masih, a Christian woman who was accused of blasphemy in Pakistan. (Read the previously published report.)While Saima has been freed from prison, she remains in danger from the avenging violence of militant vigilantes who are seeking to achieve what they falsely perceive as "justice." Remarkably, this past October, two similar blasphemy cases came before the Pakistani courts in which other accused Christians were also released on bail.

  • Classified Report on Pastor Raymond Koh
    Raymond Koh
    Pastor Raymond Koh
     

    Since the disappearance of her husband in 2017, Susanna Koh has continued to search for answers. In 2020, the Christian woman filed a lawsuit against the Malaysian government in an attempt to force them to reveal what they know about the abduction of her husband, Pastor Raymond Koh. As a result of the lawsuit, the government was ordered to release the classified findings of a task force that had been created to look into Pastor Raymond's disappearance, as well as that of a social activist named Amri Che Mat.