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Prayer Diary: China

Pastor Wang Yi. CREDIT Facebook/ Early Rain Covenant Church

Religious minorities continue to experience increasing pressure, harassment and even violence, and the current crackdown on churches has been described by some as the worst since the Cultural Revolution.

Prayer Diary: Bangladesh

Religious minority groups continue to face discrimination in the law, in society and in their treatment by enforcement agencies.

Prayer Diary: Nigeria

Religious freedom violations have been taking place in northern Nigeria for decades.

Prayer Diary Mexico

Children of minority faiths are often barred from school, in attempts by local authorities to enforce religious conformity, and even though this is illegal state governments rarely take action.

Prayer Diary Laos

Laos constitution guarantees its citizens the right to believe or not to believe in religions. However, the document limits state protection to lawful activities by Buddhists and followers of other religions.

Prayer Diary Egypt

Under President Sisi there have been some advances in freedom of religion or belief, but only for the Christian community.

Prayer Diary UN

The United Nations is made up of 193 Member States and tackles a whole host of issues ranging from peace and security to climate change and food production.

Prayer Diary India

In 2014 the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) came to power. Since that time the dominance of Hindutva ideology, a Hindu nationalism which seeks to impose Hinduism on all aspects of Indian society, has led to a marked increase in communal and targeted violence against religious minorities.

Prayer Diary North Korea

In March we held an event at the UN in Geneva where we heard the testimony of Heyeona Ji, a North Korean Christian currently living in South Korea.

Prayer Diary Pakistan

Religious freedom concerns include discriminatory legislation, institutional and social discrimination, and targeted violence against the countrys religious minorities Christians, Hindus, Shia Muslims and Ahmadis.

Prayer Diary Sudan

Protests in Sudan in April 2019

In April Sudans capital, Khartoum, saw the largest protests in decades, with some estimating that over a million people took part.