In recent days we have been covering a lot of news concerning the intense Hindu persecution of Christians in India. According to a story here India not only has a major problem with killing preborn girl babies, but also dealing with intense persecution towards Christians, including some of those who worked with the late Mother Teresa.

In recent months there have been increased incidents of persecution in China. Local Christians believe the Communist Chinese government has stepped up their crackdown on the house church movement in efforts to get rid of them before the Olympics this summer. A few days ago, we just received news that 21 senior house church leaders were simultaneously sentenced to a labor camp by the Linyi City Re-education Through Labor Commission.

(Compass Direct News) –Security police authorities in Eritrea released 35 evangelical Christians in the port city of Massawa over the weekend after holding them in custody for six weeks at a local police station. All the jailed Protestants were members of the government-banned Faith of Christ Church. The 35 men and women had been worshipping in a private home on January 6 when security officials raided the house and arrested those present. The group was denied visitation rights while in police custody, although official charges were never filed against them. According to Protestant sources inside Eritrea, the Massawa Christians were released on Saturday morning (February 16). Three days earlier, 10 members of the Full Gospel Church who had been incarcerated for five years in Assab’s notorious military prison were released on bail. The seven men and three women had been transferred from Assab to the Adi-Abyto prison six months ago. Local sources also reported the death in prison of the leader of some 70 Eritrean Muslims, Taha Mohammed Nur.For more information on this story click here.

If you've been reading this blog for any length of time you know that China is a communist nation and has a serious record of persecuting Christians. You may also know that China has one of the largest underground Christian churches in the world.

According to The Voice of the Martyrs contacts in Nigeria, “One Christian man was killed, over 60 people were seriously injured and five churches were damaged.”

This morning during my devotional time, I found myself in the book of 1 Timothy 1:12-17 which says,

Recently I shared with you how I was so blessed to share about the persecuted church with some high school students and I shared with you that part of my presentation was showing them part of the Underground Reality Vietnam DVD that The Voice of the Martyrs has produced.

After reading about Li Mei today and the torture she has had to go through, I just wish I could give her a big warm hug. Since that is not possible, I'm going to write her a letter of encouragement today. Please join me won't you? Click here to go to Prisoner Alert.com

The Iranian parliament is reviewing a bill for the Islamic Penal Law (Penal Code) that aims at legislating the death penalty for apostasy.

One of our wonderful persecution bloggers alerted me to a great post they recently wrote called A Dangerous Christian.