2008 (By Year)

Christmas Day brought persecution for Christians in four provinces in China.

Conditions are harsh for Iranian Christians in Iran, where evangelistic activities are against the law and Christian groups are monitored by government spies.

A New York man has won the right to keep a Christian sign on his trailer near an expressway.

Communist Chinese authorities have been accused of illegally raiding four households in an earthquake disaster area.

Buddhist clerics and local council officials are holding 13 newly converted Christians captive in a pagoda in a southeastern mountainous district of Bangladesh in an attempt to forcibly return them to Buddhism.

Christians in the northern Indian state of Orissa are preparing for a violent Christmas.

Local government officials in Dak Lak Province (Vietnam) on Wednesday morning made good on their threat to destroy a new wooden church building erected in September by Hmong Christians in Cu Hat village.

Government officials in Central Maluku, Indonesia, Tuesday promised to reconstruct before Christmas two church buildings and a number of houses set ablaze last week during sectarian rioting in Letwaru village, Masohi district.

Christians in the United States are being asked to pray for fellow believers in Iraq, some of whom are facing a dangerous Christmas.

After a judge placed new financial and social pressure on the captors of a Pakistani girl who was kidnapped and converted to Islam, attorneys have guarded optimism they can return her to custody of her Christian parents.

In the city of Samsun on the north coast of Turkey, the beleaguered congregation of the Agape Church Association struggles against local Islamic hostility toward its presence.

A human-rights activist says every time Americans buy a Chinese-made Christmas present, they support a regime that is forcibly repatriating entire refugee families to imprisonment and death in North Korea.

The murderous rioting sparked by Muslim attacks on Christians and their property on Nov. 28-29 in Jos, Nigeria, left six pastors dead, at least 500 other people killed and 40 churches destroyed, according to church leaders.

In recent months Chinese officials have attempted to build bridges with the Protestant house church movement even as police raided more unregistered congregations, arrested Christian leaders and forced at least 400 college students to swear they would stop attending such worship services.

A Somali Christian put in a refugee camp police cell in Kenya for defending his family against Islamic zealots has been released after Christians helped raise the fine that a camp "court" demanded for his conversion dishonoring Islam and its prophet, Muhammad.

The harassment that Bangladeshi converts from Islam face from Muslim neighbors in this southeastern area near Cox’s Bazar can take serious turns – as it did last month, when an attack by about a dozen Muslims left a Christian family with machete wounds.