World Watch Monitor
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Pastor Killed While Leaving His Church, Congregation ‘Terrified’
A Colombian pastor was killed as he left his church last week in the northwest of the country, in a region that has been plagued by violence from armed groups, local sources told World Watch Monitor. Pastor Leider Molina, 24, had just finished preaching in his church in Caucasia, Antioquia state in northwest Colombia, on …
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Pastor Thrown Behind Bars: ‘I Must Denounce This Wickedness Openly’
A Chinese pastor and his wife who were arrested alongside 100 church members and detained in southwest China recently are accused of subverting state power, which can carry a prison sentence of up to five years. Pastor Wang Yi and his wife, Jiang Rong, and other members of their ‘underground’ Protestant Early Rain Covenant Church …
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27 Church Members Slaughtered in Latest Attack
In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, dozens are feared killed as armed men believed to be Islamist militants from the ADF group stormed the eastern town of Beni, in the volatile province of North Kivu, on Saturday. According to local sources, the assailants, in great number, attacked the city by surprise at around 5:30 …
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The Sick Way North Korea Twisted the Trinity to Fit a Communist Agenda
North Korea’s population continues to live under government surveillance and with a propaganda machine controlled by the national leader’s personality cult. It actually is not unlike George Orwell’s classic book 1984, John Choi* comments, a Christian human rights advocate who escaped from North Korea and now lives in the UK: “Life [in North Korea] is …
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Pastor Narrowly Survives Assassination Attempt
A Mexican pastor who survived an assassination attempt in the notorious border city of Juarez in June says he was targeted because his church’s work is seen to negatively impact upon the efforts of drug cartels. A hit man entered the pastor’s home on June 12, making him kneel down on the floor and telling …
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Pastor: Security Services Threatened My Life for Leading Muslim Woman to the Lord
The Nigerian pastor who played a central role in the conversion of a young Muslim woman to Christianity has denounced the response of the country’s security services, from which he alleges he has received death threats. The first response of the Nigerian Department of State Security Services (DSS), in January, had been to arrest the …
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Iranian Christians See Hope Stripped Away With Extreme Torture, Harassment on the Rise
There was hope among Iranian Christians that the mass protests earlier this year could effect change for them, but they continue to be harassed and imprisoned on spurious charges. An Iranian convert to Christianity, Naser Navard Gol-Tapeh, who recently lost his appeal against a 10-year sentence for “missionary activities”, was reportedly moved to the infamous Evin Prison in Tehran two weeks ago—the …
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