Mark Ellis
Mark Ellis worked in the commercial real estate industry before he answered a call into full-time Christian ministry. For 9 years, he served as Asst. Pastor at Church by the Sea in Laguna Beach. He began writing about the church around the world in 1999 with the assistance of Dan Wooding of ASSIST News. After a mission trip to the southern Philippines in 2004, God gave him the vision for the God Reports website, which supports and encourages Christian Missions. He also serves on the boards of Morning Star News and the Birtcher Family Foundation.
Terrorists kill 28 in three Christian villages
Fulani herdsmen killed 28 Christians from April 20 to April 22 in an area of Benue state, Nigeria, residents said.
“Some groups of Muslim Fulanis...
Christian family forced off farmland they leased
Police in Pakistan are refusing to arrest Muslims who attacked a Christian family and seized
their farm land, and officers also damaged property, sources said.
Shahnaz...
Prominent Lebanese Christian leader killed
Pascal Suleiman, a Lebanese Christian leader, was reported missing on April 7 and later
found dead in neighboring Syria. Suleiman was a leader of the...
ECWA pastor ambushed, shot by bandits
A Christian pastor was killed last week as he traveled to minister to church members in
northern Kaduna state, sources said.
While Fulani herdsmen and other...
Baptist pastor re-arrested the night he’s released from prison
To mark the Buddhist New Year festival of Thingyan, officials in Myanmar released 3,300
people from prison. Authorities re-arrested one of them, a Baptist pastor,...
China: Horror continues in women’s prison
“Bitter Winter” has reported previously on the dreadful situation of women prisoners of
conscience in the Heilongjiang Provincial Women’s Prison, nicknamed “the cemetery of Falun Gong ladies.” Two female Falun...
Christian convert given prison sentence on return to Iran
A Christian convert who was baptized in a church in Malaysia has been sentenced to two
years in prison in Iran for “acting against national...
Muslim husband beats wife with metal rod for attending Christian worship
Among the 8 million people who have fled military conflict in Sudan is a mother who lost
two babies to illness and was beaten for...
Bishop, four others stabbed during live-stream Bible study
Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel of Christ The Good Shepherd Church in Sydney, Australia, was stabbed during a church Bible study as it was streamed...
Messages sent by North Korean Christians
North Korea is No. 1 on Open Doors’ 2024 World Watch List, the annual ranking of the top 50 places where it’s most difficult to follow...