News and Reports
Occupied Ukraine: Enforced Disappearances of Religious Leaders
Published on: November 16, 2023
DOHI Staff Since the invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, we have become deeply concerned about the numerous reports on the enforced disappearances of Ukrainian religious leaders by the Russian occupation forces. While the exact reasons for many of the abductions are not known, what is clear is that these men were all active in […]
John Cao-China RELEASED!
Published on: November 14, 2023
BACKGROUND SUMMARY John (Sanqiang) Cao, a Chinese national, is a Protestant pastor and missionary. His wife and two children are U.S. citizens. Since 1990, Cao has been a U.S. permanent resident. Cao served as a pastor to churches in the USA and established Bibles schools in China. For the past ten years, his work has […]
Religious Liberty in the U.S.: Where Does Your State Rank?
Published on: November 14, 2023
DOHI Staff The Center for Religion, Culture, and Democracy at First Liberty Institute just released its second annual report on the status of Religious Liberty in the States (RLS). The center has approached this data project with the outlook that “people of any faith or no faith should be allowed to live in all areas […]
Pastor Nadarkhani-Iran RELEASED
Published on: November 10, 2023
BACKGROUND SUMMARY After almost 14 years of praying for the freedom of Pastor Youcef Nadarkhani, we can share the good news that he was released from Evin Prison in Iran in February 2023 and is once again free. Pastor Nadarkhani, a church leader in the Church of Iran denomination, was among three Christian converts, including Hadi […]
Saheb (Zaman) Fadaie-Iran RELEASED
Published on: November 10, 2023
BACKGROUND SUMMARY Saheb (Zaman) Fadaie was a member of the leadership team of the Church of Iran – a Unitarian denomination. Over the past years, Iranian authorities have detained and arrested a number of the church’s members, including Saheb, who was initially sentenced to 10 years in prison for his membership in and leadership of house churches and […]
Pastor Zafar Bhatti-Pakistan
Published on: November 10, 2023
BACKGROUND SUMMARY Pastor Zafar Bhatti has been imprisoned in Adiala Central Jail in Rawalpindi, Punjab Province, since 2012. He was arrested after Ahmed Khan, deputy secretary of the local branch of the Islamic organisation Jamat Ahle-Sunnat, filed a police report stating he had received text messages from an unknown number insulting the prophet Mohammed’s mother. […]
Pastor Anooshavan Avedian – Iran RELEASED!
Published on: November 9, 2023
BACKGROUND SUMMARY After serving one year in Tehran’s Evin Prison, Pastor Avedian was acquitted and released in September 2024. On the same day that Pastor Joseph Shahbazian was released from prison, Pastor Anooshavan Avedian, 61 years old, was summoned to begin serving his 10-year sentence in Evin Prison, Tehran. Pastor Avedian was initially arrested a […]
Haile Naigzhe-Eritrea
Published on: November 9, 2023
BACKGROUND SUMMARY In 2002, the Eritrean government shut down and banned all religious groups except the Orthodox, Catholic, and Lutheran churches, as well as Sunni Islam. As a result of the government’s action, banned churches were forced to go underground. Eritrean officials then responded by undertaking a campaign to locate the underground churches and […]
Kiflu Gebremeskel-Eritrea
Published on: November 9, 2023
BACKGROUND SUMMARY Dr. Kiflu Gebremeskel was the founder and senior pastor of Southwest Full Gospel Church and a member of the executive committee of the Full Gospel Church of Eritrea. The Full Gospel Church of Eritrea is one of the country’s largest Pentecostal networks which comprises about 150 house church groups. Kiflu has a Ph.D. […]
Chang Hao-China
Published on: November 9, 2023
BACKGROUND SUMMARY Chang Hao is a rural house church leader from Zhaotong, Yunnan province. He has been very active in social justice issues in his local community, organizing prayer meetings and supporting persecuted churches. Local authorities have summoned Pastor Chang on multiple occasions to question him about his activities. This year he was arrested on […]
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