Two church groups that have been meeting at a university in central Almaty, Kazakhstan, are now prohibited from using the school’s facilities. City officials told staff at the International University of Information Technology that renting space to religious communities is now banned. University officials had no choice but to comply with the ban. “We want to continue to rent to them,” a university official said. “It was profitable for us.”

Two Indian nationals have been locked in a Saudi Arabian jail for more than two months, even though they were sentenced to just 45 days in prison. The religious police arrested Yohan Nese, 31, and Vasantha Sekhar Vara, 28, on Jan. 21 during a raid on a prayer meeting. Four other Indian nationals at the prayer meeting escaped arrest.

CBN News has an article today about Vietnam, who is one of our Restricted Nations, being accused of religious persecution.

Yesterday we shared with you some news about Gao Zhisheng and asked you to sign the petition at http://www.freegao.com and to keep him in prayer along with his family.

In our March 28th blog entry we shared with you the story of the Christian evangelist in Bangladesh who was sentenced to one year of prison time for "creating chaos".

The following story is from Assyrian International News Agency and I'm sure is going to cause you to react. I would love to hear your thoughts on this story because it is very apparent that President Obama decided to go to war because mosques were being destroyed.

The Christian Post is covering the latest news with Gao Zhisheng, who has gone missing for nearly a year. The article reiterates other news we have discussed here on the blog, and adds the comments from Mrs. Zhisheng from the award she accepted on Gao's behalf.

Our Kids of Courage website always has new content for you to share with the children in your life. Today I'd like to highlight one story from the Kids of Courage website.