Turkey: Christian convert teacher dismissed from duties
Turkish Christians request prayer for Christian convert, Esma, who has been withdrawn from her teaching duties and is being investigated by the National Education Board after the Turkish press accused her of missionary activities through her social media account. Esma...
Iran: Update on court hearing for Ismaeil Maghrebinejad
On 1 November MEC requested prayer for the court hearing of Christian convert Ismaeil Maghrebinejad on 2 November. Close contacts with Ismaeil report that the hearing went well, that the judge accepted the lawyer Ismaeil proposed for his defence and that Ismaeil was...
Iran: Court hearing for Christian convert
Iranian Christians request prayer for Christian convert Ismaeil Maghrebinejad who is scheduled to attend a court hearing on 2 November. Ismaeil (65) was arrested in Shiraz on 25 January and was harshly interrogated with no respect for his age. He was charged with...
Iran: Ebrahim Firouzi released from prison
Iranian Christians are delighted to report that Christian convert Ebrahim Firouzi has been released from prison. Ebrahim was released from Rajaei Shahr prison in Karaj on 26 October, but will soon begin to serve two years’ internal exile in Sarbaz on the border with...
Algeria: Another church to be closed
Algerian Christians request continued prayer as the systematic government campaign to close churches escalates. On 17 October, another church was informed that it will soon be closed. Christians, who demonstrated peacefully were violently arrested by the police....
Iran: Nine converts from Rasht get five years each
Iranian Christians request prayer for nine men of the “Church of Iran” denomination who have each received a five-year prison sentence due to their Christian faith and activity. Abdolreza (Matthias) Haghnejad was arrested on 10 February when Iranian security...
Algeria: Campaign against churches escalates
Algerian Christians request continued prayer as the systematic government campaign to close churches escalates. On 15 October 2019 the Gendarmerie closed three church buildings, the Full Gospel Church of Tizi Ouzou, the church of Makouda and the church of Tafat. The...
Syria: Christians request prayer for northeast Syria
Syrian Christians request prayer in light of Turkey's current military campaign in the northeast of their country. Northeast Syria is home to a range of diverse ethnic and religious communities. The principal Kurdish region of Syria, it also hosts sizeable Syriac and...
Iran: Iranian convert to start prison sentence
Iranian Christians request prayer for convert Mahrokh (Roksare) Kanbari who has been summoned to serve her one-year prison sentence. Mahrokh was convicted of “propaganda against the system” after a hearing at Karaj Revolutionary Court on 27 July. She was initially...
Algeria: Another church closed by government
Algerian Christians request ongoing prayer as the government campaign against churches continues. On 25 September, officials informed leaders of the church of Tigzirt, a coastal town northeast Algeria in Tizi-Ouzou Province, that their building would soon be closed....
Iran: Educational challenge for children of converts
Friends of Yousef Nadarkhani - a pastor previously sentenced to death for apostasy and presently in Evin prison due to his Christian faith - and his wife Tina Pasandideh request prayer for their sons’ educational situation. Daniel (17) and Yoel (15) are presently...
Algeria: Another church building forcibly closed
Algerian Christians request prayer as the campaign to close churches continues. On 24 September, the police director of Boghni announced that a church building had been sealed, based on a closure order issued by the Governor of Tizi Ouzou on 18 September. Boghni is...