Christian News Today has a great article on their website that you must read. The title of the article is China: Defiantly Intensifying Persecution . Please take a few minutes and click on over and read it.

The following story isn't a story about persecution, but it is about a brother who died apparently of an accident.

Compass Direct, one of the leading sources of religious persecution on the internet, is reporting that the Eritrean government has stripped the authority of the orthodox church.

The news of Pastor Yuan's death continues to make the news. Today Asia News is reporting on his funeral.

Last week Compass Direct reported on imprisoned Pastor The Rev. Nguyen Hong Quang who was imprisoned in Vietnam because he dared to confront two plainclothes policemen who had harassed some of the workers and were staking out his home and church a few months earlier.

Friday I mentioned that there was a DC Rally to protest the repatriation of North Koreans. So far today all I can find on this story is what Agape Press reported in a blurb. I find it interesting the press has not covered this story.

The Christian Post, one of my favorite websites, is reporting today that over the weekend there will be a protest in Washington DC about the repatriation of North Korean refugees.

If you said something on your website about your own personal beliefs and had someone tell you to apologize for it - would you? Well, in this case that you can read about in The Age two pastors are now being told that they can appeal over "vilification claims".

World Net Daily is reporting today that Myanmar is cracking down on churches because residents are converting from Buddhism.