Turkey: Court hearing for Pastor Michael
Prayer was requested for Pastor Michael Feulner of Yalova Lighthouse Church for a court hearing today contesting a security designation that would effectively ban him from the country. On 11 February Michael and his lawyer attended the hearing at the administrative...
Somaliland: Christians arrested for spreading Christianity
On 21 January, police in Hargeisa, Somaliland arrested Mohamed and Hamdi and their new born baby. The same day an Ethiopian woman, Aster, was taken into custody. Police searched Mohammed and Hamdi’s house the following day. Besides confiscating material belonging to...
Iran: Ebrahim Firouzi imprisoned after exposing harassment
Iranian Christians request prayer for convert Ebrahim Firouzi who has been arrested after publicizing continual harassment from Iranian intelligence (MOIS). On 6 February Ebrahim released a series of six videos detailing harassment by MOIS including an informant...
Turkey: Upcoming hearing for pastor facing deportation
Pastor Michael Feulner of Yalova Lighthouse Church requests prayer for an upcoming court hearing contesting a security designation that would effectively ban him from the country. Michael, a German citizen, came to Turkey as a relief worker following the 1999...
Algeria: Christian Convicted of Blasphemy
Algerian Christians request prayer for a believer from a Muslim background convicted of blasphemy. On 21 January a court in Erzwe – Oran, sentenced him to five-years imprisonment. The Christian (43) is married with four children (ages 6, 4, 3 years and...
Iran: Christian converts interrogated and pressured
Iranian Christians request prayer as many Christian converts are being summoned to intelligence offices and put under pressure to abstain from Christian fellowship. Since the end of January, Iranian intelligence officials in Karaj have summoned about a dozen Christian...
Iran: Prison sentences against Christian converts upheld
Iranian Christians request prayer after the one-year prison sentences of three Christian converts were upheld on appeal. Brothers Sam and Sasan Khosravi, their wives Maryam and Marjan Falahi, Habib Heydari, Pooriya Peyma and his wife Fatemeh Talebi were arrested in...
North Cyprus: Expatriate Christian targeted in media
Prayer is requested after the home and business of an expatriate Christian in North Cyprus were searched, Bibles and other Christian materials confiscated, and he and another expatriate defamed in the national press. On 27 January, on the pretext of investigating a...
Israel: Church arson leads to call for mutual respect
Christians in Israel request prayer following a recent arson attempt at the Basilica of All Nations in Gethsemane, Jerusalem. On 4 December, a Jewish extremist entered the church, poured gasoline on the pews and ground, and set it alight. Church guards were quick to...
Turkey: Challenges Facing Christians 2016-2020
Iran: Second Christian convert given 80 lashes
Iranian Christians request prayer for Saheb, given 80 lashes for drinking the wine as part of Holy Communion. Zaman Fadaei - known as Saheb - was arrested in Rasht in May 2016, along with his pastor Yousef Nadarkhani, Nadarkhani’s wife Fatemeh (Tina) Pasandideh,...
Somaliland: Christian couple released and deported
On 1 November the Somaliland Regional Court ordered the deportation of a married couple, Somali converts from Islam to Christianity, to Somalia. They had been arrested in September, considered to be “apostates and evangelists spreading Christianity.” On 5 November...