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...
Algeria: Prayer requested for closed churches

Algeria: Prayer requested for closed churches

Christians in Algeria request prayer that the government will cease discrimination in the reopening places of worship closed due to COVID19. All worship and entertainment places have been closed since mid March. In early August, it was decided to reopen places of...
Algeria: Call for prayer regarding church closures

Algeria: Call for prayer regarding church closures

The EPA (“Eglise Protestante d’Algérie” – the Protestant Church of Algeria) has called for prayer with this message as the church commemorates a sad anniversary: Thursday, October 15, 2020, it will be one year since the crisis of arbitrary...

Somaliland: Couple in need of prayer

Being alerted of “suspicious activities,” police came to the house of a Christian couple on 21 September, arresting both after they found Christian materials. The couple have three children. At a 5 October press conference, a Somaliland police colonel stated that two...
Iran: Prayer for a Christian convert in exile

Iran: Prayer for a Christian convert in exile

Friends of Christian convert Mohammad Reza (Youhan) Omidi request prayer as he serves a term of internal exile in Borazjan, in the south of Iran. Youhan was arrested in May 2016 (in Rasht, along with pastor Yousef Nadarkhani, Yousef’s wife Tina and two others) and...
Iran: Christian convert faces propaganda charge

Iran: Christian convert faces propaganda charge

Iranian Christians are thankful that a new charge against convert Ebrahim Firouzi has been rejected through lack of evidence and the case closed. In 2013, Ebrahim was arrested and sentenced to one year in prison and two years of internal exile in the remote town of...