Oct 18, 2022
Iranian Christians are rejoicing that Naser Navard Goltapeh was released from Evin Prison on 17 October after being pardoned by the Supreme Leader, Ali Khamanei. The Iranian pastor was arrested along with three Azerbaijani Christians in June 2016. In June 2017, they...
Sep 14, 2022
Christians in Turkey are asking Turkish authorities to thoroughly investigate and act following recent claims that an ultra-nationalist was planning to kill Christian leaders in Malatya in 2015/ 2016. On 25 August, Tolgahan, a young man with ultra-nationalist...
Sep 12, 2022
The Union Church in Tripoli (UCT) has received an order to vacate their building by 27 September or be forcibly evicted. Christians in Libya request prayer for the UCT to find a new place of worship. With this eviction order, the UCT has lost use of the building where...
Sep 12, 2022
Libyan Christians urge us to pray for a convert to Christianity sentenced to death by an appeals court in a city in western Libya. The young man, who accepted Jesus about four years ago, was arrested by militias and detained several times during the past few years....
Sep 6, 2022
At a 30 August court hearing against four Christians in Darfur accused of apostasy, the judge referred the case back to the public prosecutor’s office. As MEC previously reported, the four men were arrested on 22 June following a raid on a Baptist church...
Sep 5, 2022
On 30 August MEC requested prayer for Iranian Christians ordered to present themselves at Evin Prison for their sentences to be carried out. Since then, Iranian-Armenian pastor Joseph Shahbazian has started serving his 10-year prison sentence and Christian convert...
