On a May evening, Claudette El Hajj organized five buses to bring 150 people displaced by the war in Lebanon to a worship night in a hilltop town overlooking Beirut. Many were Christians who had been forced to flee their homes in southern Lebanon due to heavy fighting between…
By Vivian Sequera CARACAS, June 30 (Reuters) - Jordanian emergency workers in Venezuela, which was hit by devastating twin earthquakes last week, rescued a child early on Tuesday, the only reportedsurvivor on the sixth day of rescue efforts, according to Venezuelan authorities.
Devastating earthquakes hit Venezuela on 24 June 2026, leaving in their wake countless victims, including thousands of people killed, injured, displaced, unhoused, or otherwise affected. Constantly rising official figures are considered to not yet represent the extent of the…
On June 24, a group of Muslims attacked a prayer house in the Hegarmanah Indah Housing Complex in West Java, Indonesia, demanding that it be closed. The violent mob attacked several members of the church behind the prayer house and threatened to burn the gathering place down.
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World Health Organization warned on Tuesday (30 June) that Venezuela's healthcare system is under severe strain after twin earthquakes struck last week, killing more than 1,700 people, injuring thousands and overwhelming hospitals.
Two years after Manish left Hinduism to follow Jesus in 2008, he began sharing the gospel full-time in local Hindu communities in India. Recently, Hindu nationalists have started to push back. On Feb. 22, as Pastor Manish led a Sunday worship service, a group of roughly 20…
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On June 22, the government of India issued two notifications, one of which explicitly bars non-governmental organizations from using foreign funds for proselytizing. The notification explicitly prohibits the use of foreign contributions for religious conversion but allows their…
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Gunmen stormed a secondary school in Nigeria’s northeastern Borno state on Monday morning and abducted students while they were sitting national examinations, police said.
Iranian-Assyrian pastor Victor Bet-Tamraz used to lead a Persian-speaking church in Tehran, until the church was forbidden from holding services in the national language, or allowing converts to enter.
In the past seven years, Chinese house church leaders Owen Jiao and Ella Jiang have sought to provide their children with a Christian education, a difficult journey that caused them to run afoul of the Chinese government, ostracized them from their fellow church members, and…
Administration, taxation, and media narratives are the new arenas of religious controversy and discrimination. The post When Law Loses Its Conscience: Common Manifestations of Religious Conflict within Modern Rule of Law first appeared on Bitter Winter.
Rescue teams raced on Sunday to find more survivors of the two powerful earthquakes that struck Venezuela this week, with signs of life bringing occasional relief to a grim quest to whittle down a list of tens of thousands missing.
Pope Leo has expressed solidarity with people in Venezuela after twin earthquakes struck the country earlier this week, causing widespread damage and leaving communities in urgent need of assistance.
TEHRAN — The twin earthquakes that struck north-central coastal Venezuela on June 24, registering magnitudes of 7.2 and 7.5, brought immense destruction to Caracas and La Guaira. With the death toll nearing 1000 as of writing this article, Western media frames the catastrophe…
A leading Indian Christian speaks to the Voice podcast about a proposed new regulation that would threaten Christian work in that country. The post Threat of ‘draconian’ regulations in India appeared first on Release International.
June 27 (Reuters) - A strong earthquake struck Afghanistan's Hindu Kush region on Saturday, the European Mediterranean Seismological Centre said, sending out tremors that could be felt from the capital Kabul across the border into neighbouring Pakistan.
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – A Christian attacked after he and his wife participated in an evangelistic outreach in eastern Uganda on June 14 is still receiving medical treatment for his injuries, sources said.
Rescue teams and residents in Venezuela are continuing to search for survivors after twin earthquakes killed more than 900 people and left thousands injured.
At A Glance: For seven years, Tanima* hid her faith in Christ from everyone. When she was discovered, her enraged husband and the entire community treated her cruelly. Then her husband read a Bible passage for himself, and his heart was changed.
NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – Nine tribal people in India have been released on bail after they sent 13 Christians to the hospital with severe injuries, sources said. The followers of traditional tribal religion were released on bail on June 15.
At least 235 people have been confirmed dead one day after two powerful earthquakes struck Venezuela. Hundreds of people are believed to be trapped under rubble and tens of thousands are unaccounted for, as emergency crews and international rescue teams race to respond.
ABUJA, Nigeria (Christian Daily International–Morning Star News) – Fulani herdsmen guided toward Christian leaders on Monday (June 22) killed 28 Christians, including a pastor, in a raid on a village in Plateau state, Nigeria, sources said.
(Beijing – June 24, 2026) After eight months in detention, An Mei, a lay leader of the Beijing-based house church network Beijing Zion Church, was released on bail pending trial on June 18, according to church sources and reporting from ChinaAid.
LAHORE, Pakistan (Christian Daily International–Morning Star News) – A court in Pakistan has acquitted a blind Catholic who spent 10 months in prison on a blasphemy charge carrying a mandatory death sentence, ruling that prosecutors failed to present sufficient evidence to…
In the context of the earthquakes that struck Venezuela on the afternoon of 24 June and the relief efforts that are following, Amnesty International raises the alarm over the potentially devastating effects this disaster may have on the Venezuelan population and calls on…
A well-known political activist and Christian convert in Iran, Mohammad Nikbakht, has reportedly been threatened with execution, after his two brothers were sentenced to death. Mohammad was violently arrested during a raid on his home in March by “approximately 200 armed…
Two very different spiritual movements were targeted, at different times, by similar forms of repression. The post The Repression of the New Testament Church and the Tai Ji Men Case in Taiwan: Parallels and Differences first appeared on Bitter Winter.
SURABAYA, Indonesia (Morning Star News) – Muslims on June 11 protested a second time against plans for a church building in Central Java, Indonesia, sources said. Citing lack of construction permits, few Christians in the area and fear of proselytizing, the Muslims spread…
Fresh detentions and sentences show that China’s campaign against this spiritual movement continues The post Lifechanyuan: Facing a New Wave of Repression in China first appeared on Bitter Winter.
Two powerful earthquakes struck Venezuela on Wednesday, killing at least 32 people and injuring 700 after dozens of buildings collapsed into piles of shattered concrete and steel in and around the capital Caracas.
LAHORE, Pakistan (Christian Daily International–Morning Star News) – A Muslim in Pakistan killed a Christian co-worker on Monday (June 22) after telling him he could not drink water from a cooler used by other laborers, sources said.
An elderly man who devoted his life to faith is now treated as a public menace. The post A 95-Year-Old Religious Leader in Custody: South Korea Crosses a Line first appeared on Bitter Winter.
A Uyghur Christian pastor in China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region is facing the possible closure of his church and the persecution of his family after authorities imposed burdensome compliance requirements and intensified surveillance of church leaders and members…
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