http://www.christianpersecution.info Sun, 11 May 2008 19:30:01 -0400 Sun, 11 May 2008 19:30:01 -0400 Worthy News Builder http://www.christianpersecution.info/news/mexico-authorities-expel-evangelicals-from-homes-reports/ Some 20 evangelical Christians, most of them children in a troubled town of Mexico’s Guerrero State, were homeless Saturday, February 23, after they were reportedly expelled by authorities for their refusal to participate in festivals honoring Catholic saints. Mon, 25th Feb 2008 05:38:00 -0500 http://www.christianpersecution.info/news/honduras-top-evangelical-accuses-criminals-of-infiltrating-ministry/ The pastor of one of Central America’s largest churches and evangelical organizations says criminal groups are infiltrating his and other Christian groups in an effort to halt their operations, BosNewsLife learned Friday, January 4. Mon, 7th Jan 2008 02:39:00 -0500 http://www.christianpersecution.info/news/evangelical-pastor-and-activists-detained-in-cuba/ An evangelical pastor and several other human rights workers have been detained in Cuba shortly after security forces broke up a meeting commemorating political prisoners in the capital Havana, BosNewsLife learned from activists Saturday, November 24. Mon, 26th Nov 2007 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.christianpersecution.info/news/argentina-mayor-closes-ministry-center/ A pastor in Argentina has received threatening letters and had posters of his face displayed in Quilmes after the city's mayor closed down the congregation's newly constructed ministry center last March. Wed, 24th Oct 2007 02:30:00 -0400 http://www.christianpersecution.info/news/mexico-traditionalist-catholics-demolish-another-church/ Chiapas state officials arrested 14 "traditionalist Catholics" following the destruction on Sunday (July 22) of an evangelical church in a community of San Juan Chamula, near San Cristobal de las Casas, in Mexico’s Chiapas state. Mon, 30th Jul 2007 01:30:00 -0400 http://www.christianpersecution.info/news/pentecostal-pastors-shot-dead-in-colombia/ Two Pentecostal pastors have been assassinated in Colombia by suspected leftist rebels, Christian rights activists said Tuesday, July 10. Tue, 10th Jul 2007 18:52:00 -0400 http://www.christianpersecution.info/news/mexico-christians-in-chiapas-town-deprived-of-water/ More than five weeks after town bosses in Chiapas state, Mexico, signed an agreement to restore water lines cut off from Christians since January, the Protestants still rely on dirty, distant wells and puddles for washing and drinking. Thu, 31st May 2007 01:06:00 -0400 http://www.christianpersecution.info/news/cuban-influential-christian-prisoner-suffering-of-tuberculosis/ An influential Christian Cuban "prisoner of conscience" remained behind bars Pentecost Sunday, May 27, despite suffering of tuberculosis in the Kilo 7 Prison in the province of Camaguey, dissidents told BosNewsLife. Tue, 29th May 2007 00:46:00 -0400 http://www.christianpersecution.info/news/mexico-pact-spares-evangelicals-in-chipas-from-expulsion/ Local political bosses who had voted to expel 65 Christians from a small town near here grudgingly signed an agreement yesterday to let the evangelicals stay in their homes. Wed, 25th Apr 2007 03:58:00 -0400 http://www.christianpersecution.info/news/mexico-pact-sets-new-course-for-threatened-christians/ On Monday (April 23), small town political bosses near this city in Chiapas state are set to meet with representatives of 65 Christians they have threatened to expel in a showdown that could influence religious rights throughout the region. Mon, 23rd Apr 2007 00:59:00 -0400 http://www.christianpersecution.info/news/mexico-new-believer-jailed-for-receiving-christ/ Juan Mendez Mendez became a Christian in a village outside of this city in Chiapas state on April 7, and two days later local authorities put him in jail -- for leaving their religious blend of Roman Catholicism and native custom. Tue, 17th Apr 2007 03:18:00 -0400 http://www.christianpersecution.info/news/cuba-christian-activist-biscet-trusts-god-amid-prison-abuses/ One of Cuba’s most prominent Christian prisoners, Dr. Oscar Elias Biscet, has said he has been forced to watch abuses "that threaten the decorous behavior of a civilized society" but stressed he trusts God to one day end his "unjust sentence," in a letter published by BosNewsLife Saturday, March 3. Mon, 5th Mar 2007 00:27:00 -0500 http://www.christianpersecution.info/news/jailed-mexican-evangelicals-fear-new-massacre-trial/ There was concern Wednesday, February 21, about the plight of dozens of evangelical prisoners in Mexico's southeastern state of Chiapas who rights watchers say have been wrongly convicted of involvement in the massacre of 45 Tzotzil Indians nearly a decade ago. Thu, 22nd Feb 2007 20:04:00 -0500 http://www.christianpersecution.info/news/mexico-persecution-of-christians-in-chiapas-accelerates/ Persecution of evangelical Christians in the southern state of Chiapas “is accelerating daily in the indigenous regions,” according to the National Bar of Christian Lawyers. Mon, 12th Feb 2007 05:55:00 -0500 http://www.christianpersecution.info/news/chiapas-indian-pastor-sentenced-to-be-hung-was-saved-by-senator/ During my many years as a reporter, I have been involved in some incredible situations and one of them took place in Chiapas, Mexico, back in March of 1998. Mon, 12th Feb 2007 06:21:00 -0500