Asia

Iran: What made you hate me?

11 Aug 2017
Eight days after receiving a 15-year prison sentence and nearly a year after he was first detained, Muslim convert to Christianity Amin Afshar Naderi wrote an open letter to Iranian authorities. ‘What have…

Guam: North Korea/USA sabre-rattling...

11 Aug 2017
Guam is a 210-square-mile sovereign US territory and military base in the western Pacific Ocean. 92% of the population are professing Christians. On 10 August North Korea defied threats of ‘fire and fury’…

Iranian Christian released from prison

11 Aug 2017
Mission Network News reports that Maryam Nagash Zargaran, a Christian convert from Islam, was charged with being a danger to national security and imprisoned four years ago. She was kept in Iran’s Evin…

Christian poetry reaching out in Arabic culture

11 Aug 2017
Poetry is significant in Arabic culture, and Christians in the Arabian Gulf are using it to communicate with Arabs about Jesus. Through a series of short films, local believers from a Muslim background…

Laos: Homeless

04 Aug 2017
‘A’ woke up to the sounds of someone burning her house down. She grabbed her baby son and escaped. This was one of many hardships she had faced since deciding to leave her…

North Korea: What is the real threat?

04 Aug 2017
An award-winning professor and author of four books on North Korea says that not only is North Korea’s current instability, violent attitude and weaponry, including missiles a threat to Asia, United States, key…

Vietnam: Nationalist gangs terrorise Christians

04 Aug 2017
Churches must be officially registered with the authorities. A recently passed new law guaranteed religious freedom, but vague legislation banning religious activity that could ‘harm social order and/or national unity’ appears to give…

Israel: Lasting peace

04 Aug 2017
Metal detectors placed outside a holy site in East Jerusalem brought long-existing tensions to a boiling point. Viewed as an Israeli attempt to assert control over the site, Palestinians responded with protests, boycotts,…

Declaring His Greatness

04 Aug 2017
God is advancing His Kingdom in Turkey, despite last year’s attempted coup and the president’s cruel retribution on his people. Christian media are reporting more and more Turks having vivid dreams of Jesus.…

Palestinians are breaking with tradition

04 Aug 2017
Palestinian women are scoring a sweet victory against gender discrimination in the West Bank by breaking with tradition and working alongside men at the largest pastry factory in Nablus. They are ignoring prejudices…