News and Reports

500 KG BOMB DESTROYS CHURCH AND KILLS PRIEST IN KHARKIV

Published on: February 29, 2024

DOHI STAFF As the Russian-Ukraine War enters its third year, FAB-500 bombs were dropped over the Kharkiv region in northeastern Ukraine. One of those bombs fell on the Church of Jesus Christ in the city of Kupiansk, killing at least four people. Yuriy Klymko, 58, a priest and Ukrainian military chaplain, was found under the […]

YR IN REVIEW

Published on: February 7, 2024

Are We Paying Enough Attention to Christian Suffering in the World?

Published on: February 6, 2024

DOHI STAFF   “If one part suffers, every part suffers with it; if one part is honoured, every part rejoices with it. Now you are the body of Christ, and each one of you is a part of it.” 1 Corinthians 12:26   The 2023 statistics on the state of Christian persecution in the world […]

Hakop Gochumyan – Iran

Published on: January 15, 2024

BACKGROUND SUMMARY In the summer of 2023, Hakop Gochumyan, an Armenian citizen, and his wife Elisa, a dual Iranian-Armenian citizen, were on vacation in Iran visiting Elisa’s extended family. Their two children, ages 7 and 10, were with the couple. On the evening of August 15, as Hakop and Elisa visited friends in a suburb […]

Nigeria Excluded from the State Department’s List of the World’s Worst Religious Freedom Violators

Published on: January 11, 2024

DOHI Staff The Biden Administration has once again left Nigeria off of the U.S. State Department’s list of the world’s worst violators of religious freedom. This is in spite of the fact that statistics show that 90% of all Christians who lost their lives for the sake of the Gospel globally in 2023 were killed […]

Spreading Christ’s Abundant Love at Christmas

Published on: December 20, 2023

A Story of Hope and Love

Published on: December 13, 2023

Imagine you’re a child in a cold refugee camp. You’ve escaped a brutal war in your home country and you just wish life could go back to “normal.” But for now you must wait with your family — or without, if the war left you an orphan. Or imagine you’re a child in a very […]

Pastor Chang Hao Will Remain in Jail Until His Trial

Published on: December 12, 2023

DOHI Staff The Zhenxiong County Court (Zhaotong City, Yunnan Province) has decided that arrested pastor Chang Hao will remain in jail until his trial date. By denying him bail and keeping him away from his family and church community, government officials are making a clear statement – Pastor Hao is a “threat” to their idea […]

Why Give on Giving Tuesday?

Published on: November 28, 2023

Giving Tuesday is a day that encourages people to do good. It is always on the Tuesday following US Thanksgiving. Created in 2012 in New York City to inspire generosity with the concept that “the suffering of others should be as intolerable to us as our own suffering.” It is now a global movement. Around […]

Pastor Lorenzo Rosales Fajardo – Cuba

Published on: November 16, 2023

BACKGROUND SUMMARY Pastor Lorenzo Rosales Fajardo entered into fulltime ministry in 2001, first with the Open Bible denomination, then in 2009 as leader of the Monte de Sion Independent Church in Palma Soriano. His congregation, numbering between 80 to 100 people, met in his home. On July 11, 2021, Fajardo, along with his son and […]