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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Published on: October 29, 2023
DOHI NEWS Twelve Catholic priests have been released from prison following negotiations between the Vatican and Nicaraguan officials. The priests, arrested in 2022 and 2023 on various charges, were given two choices: indefinite detainment in a Nicaraguan prison, or the revoking of their citizenship and permanent exile. All twelve have gone into exile and will […]
Published on: September 19, 2023
DOHI NEWS On September 9, an accusation of blasphemy by a Muslim neighbor led police to arrest a Christian couple in the Dogaij Chowki area of Harbanspura, Lahore. Authorities, fearful of a repetition of the violent events in Jaranwala from three weeks ago, took Shaukat Masih, 33, and his 28-year-old wife, Kiran, into custody. The couple […]
Published on: September 12, 2023
DOHI News At a closed hearing on August 23, a Minsk court ruled that two internet posts published on New Life Church’s social media accounts from 2020 were “extremist” in their content and contained “direct calls to extremist actions.” Surprisingly, only Judge Tatyana Skopets and her secretary, Aleksandra Levkevich, were present at the hearing. The […]
Published on: August 22, 2023
DOHI News Today, I received emails from several of our field workers and ministry partners in Pakistan asking for URGENT prayer for Christians living in Pakistan. Families from the Christian community in Jaranwala, Faisalabad are living in terror after hundreds of Muslims, armed with sticks, rocks and gasoline stormed the Christian community. On August 16, […]
Published on: August 12, 2023
DOHI NEWS Gohardasht Prison (also known as Rajai Shahr Prison) is a name synonymous with torture, rape and murder. Nonetheless, the systemic executions and brutal interrogations of prisoners of conscience and former members of the overthrown monarchical government committed after the Islamic Revolution of 1979 has only added to its well-established notoriety. Estimates from former […]