Source:            www.savethepersecutedchristitans.org

Date:                 April 4, 2020

 

Police in Nepal Falsely Charge Pastors with Violating Coronavirus Lockdown, Sources Say

Police arrested two pastors in Nepal on March 28, falsely charging them with holding worship services amid the Himalayan country’s lockdown to contain the spread of COVID-19, sources said.
Police jumped over a locked gate and intruded into the Nissi Church building in Surkhet District, Karnali Province as 69-year-old pastor Mohan Gurung and other Christians who live on the church premises were chatting, Pastor Gurung said...Read More

Muslim militants burn elderly alive in Nigeria as terrorized villagers wait for help

Armed hordes of Muslim militants rampaged through villages in central Nigeria this week, killing unarmed farmers and burning people alive in their houses. In a nation of 204 million people where COVID-19 has killed only two, it’s mass murder that is tearing society apart.
“More than 200 Fulani herdsmen came to my community to kill us yesterday,” said Monday Bato, a farmer in the village of Ancha, home to 1,800...Read More

Christians arrested for ‘forcible conversion’ while providing aid to the poor

Christians in southern India’s Tamil Nadu state were arrested on false charges of “forcible conversion” while providing food and other aid to the poor amid escalating persecution in the majority Hindu country.
Morning Star News reports that pastor Perumal Kanagaraj and about 30 young adults from Viluppuram Church of South India were serving the poor in the nearby slum area of Anumandai village when a member of the Hindu Munnani extremist group showed up and began shouting obscenities at them...Read More

China’s people of faith: Canaries in Xi Jinping’s coal mine

Call it COVID-19. Or novel coronavirus. Or the now-politically incorrect term “Chinese flu.” But thanks to the virus’s unrivaled global threat, all eyes are now fixed on China and its Communist administration. The world is watching how President Xi Jinping behaves, what he seeks, and what is hidden behind his regime’s fiercely protected public face...Read More 

Gunmen kill three siblings, two women in Plateau

Gunmen, suspected to be herdmen, killed five people in two separate attacks in Kwal district, Bassa Local Government Area of Plateau State, on Tuesday night.
Our correspondent learnt on Wednesday that the incidents occurred in Kperie and Gbra Zongo communities.
It was also learnt that the gangsters killed three children from the same family in Gbra Zongo before moving to the neighbouring Kperie to kill two women…Read More

Also, don't forget that beginning Good Friday, Apr. 10 at 6:00 a.m. in Jerusalem and continuing non-stop until 6:00 a.m. in Jerusalem on Holy Saturday, prayer hosts from all over the world will be online, via Zoom, praying for Persecuted Christians during our 2nd annual Passion Prayer for Persecuted Christians.

We will have hosts from all over the world who will be leading prayer throughout the 24-hour prayer vigil. JOIN THE WEBCAST at anytime during the event. Prayer will be continuous. Pop-in and pop-out as you are able to join in prayer.