Unrest in Pakistan that erupted in August after two Christian brothers were accused of blaspheming Islam has continued, with a pastor being shot and other Christians arrested, and an official in Pakistan blames India for the conflict.
Following a raid earlier this year by Kyrgyzstan officials, two foreign Protestants — both associated with a registered church — were fined for “illegal missionary activity.”
A preacher teaching about Christ’s divinity was assaulted at an evangelistic event in Uganda, and so were the Christians trying to rescue him from the melee.
August brought more reports of Christians in Nigeria killed, attacked and abducted. The country is No. 6 on Open Doors’ 2023 World Watch List of places most difficult to be a Christian.
Ninety-year-old Thomas Thornton of Muscle Shoals, pastor of Abbie Baptist Church in Leighton, has been in ministry 54 years and says ministry is the “best thing that ever happened to me and my family.”
Police in China raided a church’s summer youth camp and detained four Christian adults for “carrying out activities in the name of an illegal social organization.”