Our partners at Release International sent out a unique “prayer-a-day” for the month of August. This has something you can pray for China for everyday in August. I encourage you print this out and use these prayers each day. You can start any day you like. It will only take a few minutes, and imagine how you can impact the world by bringing China before our all-powerful God.

Pastor Zhang Zhongxin was sentenced to two years "re-education through labour" in the city of Jining, Shandong province on July 4, according to a July 8 report from China Aid Association.

A disturbing secret about Iraqi Christianity is emerging now that the violence in the country seems to be settling down: over the past several years, Iraqi Christians paid hefty ransoms to spare their families and congregations from murder by insurgents.

A priest is being investigated as a potential criminal under a federal "hate crimes" law for quoting from the Bible, and he's being targeted using a Canadian provision under which no defendant ever has been acquitted, according to a new report.