A Tashkent judge fined the accountant of the Uzbek Bible Society 316,505 Soms ($189) for “violating procedures” during the import of two shipments of Bibles in 2008 and 2010, according to Forum 18 News. The judge also ordered the Bible Society to return the nearly 15,000 Bibles to the sender at its own expense. The shipments contained Bibles in Russian and Uzbek, along with children’s Bibles in Uzbek and Karakalpak, a language spoken in northwestern Uzbekistan. Authorities are especially opposed to the importation of Bibles that are in native languages instead of Russian.

As the train began to pull out of the station, the Christians standing on the platform unbuttoned their coats and pulled out hundreds of gospel tracts. Quickly they tossed the tracts, handfuls at a time, through the open train windows to the Russian troops inside.

Was it a suicide or a murder? That is one of the questions discussed in an article from Compass Direct on the recent death of a Pakistani Christian named Imran Masih. (pictured)

Every week we highlight a few very vital prayer requests that we have been focusing on this week. Today, I invite you to join in praying with us for the following three vital requests we've picked out for you. Please share these with your family, Sunday School class, pastor, bible study and home fellowships.

What would you do if you were at a home bible study or prayer meeting and someone came in and beat you up and abducted you while you were praying for a young boy to heal from an illness?

It has been awhile since we've highlighted Bibles Unbound here on the blog, so today I wanted to introduce this wonderful The Voice of the Martyrs program to you, just in case you're not aware of Bibles Unbound.

Pastors and Christian leaders in Cuba are reporting a shift in how the government treats Christians. The government appears to have moved away from higher profile forms of oppression, such as threatening to shut down or destroy churches, and is now focusing pressure on church leaders, according to Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW).