Published on: May 1, 2024
DOHI Staff Caucasus Heritage Watch (CHW) recently reported on the destruction of two Armenian heritage sites by Azerbaijani authorities. Using high-resolution satellite imagery, CHW captured unmistakable evidence of the demolition of St. John the Baptist Church, a 19th-century Armenian-built church, in Nagorno-Karabakh’s Susa area and the razing of Karintak village, located some two miles to […]
Published on: April 15, 2024
DOHI STAFF Thirty-two-year-old evangelist, Ronald Twinomugisha, was found dead in a pool of blood outside of his village home in eastern Uganda on March 30. Twinomugisha had moved to Busei B village, Iganga District, from western Uganda in February of 2022. By the end of 2023, his missionary work had brought four Muslims to faith […]
Published on: March 29, 2024
DOHI News After criminal gangs overran the country of Haiti in late February, many U.S. citizens, including missionaries, were left stranded for weeks. Jill Dolan and her husband Ryan, who run the orphanage ‘Mission of Grace’ in Plaisance du Sud, have worked in the island country since 2013. As the violence escalated recently, the couple […]
Published on: March 15, 2024
DOHI NEWS Today, one-in-four households in Pakistan employs a child in domestic service. Most of these children are girls, between the ages of 10 and 14 years of age, who come from underprivileged families – including from the Christian religious minority community. According to Naveed Walter, president of Human Rights Focus Pakistan, “Domestic workers, particularly housemaids, suffer […]
Published on: March 12, 2024
DOHI NEWS On March 2, a drone strike to a residential building in the seaport city of Odesa killed 12 individuals. Six of the victims were children, ranging in age from 4 months to 9 years old. Another 20 individuals were injured, with some in critical condition. Among those who tragically lost their lives were […]
Published on: March 5, 2024
DOHI Staff Bishop Rolando Álvarez Lagos from Nicaragua was released from prison on January 14. He was sent into exile with 18 other Roman Catholic leaders. Previously, he had served as Bishop of Matagalpa from 2011 until his arrest in 2022. The anti-government protests of 2018 saw hundreds of priests, activists, students, and political leaders imprisoned. The violent response of President […]
Published on: March 4, 2024
BACKGROUND SUMMARY Rolando Álvarez Lagos served as Bishop of Matagalpa from 2011 until his arrest in 2022. The anti-government protests of 2018 saw hundreds of priests, activists, students, and political leaders imprisoned. In the years following, arrests continue and, as a result, tens of thousands of Nicaraguans have fled into exile, witnessing the violent response […]
Published on: March 4, 2024
LATEST UPDATE! It is with a heavy heart that we share with you the sad news that Christian convert Ebrahim Firouzi, 37, has passed away into glory. He was a faithful, genuine, and humble follower of Jesus. In the face of persecution and exiled to Sistan and Baluchestan, a remote Islamic area of Iran bordering […]