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.
Attack on hospital leaves at least 20 dead
ADF rebels attacked the Byambwe Reference Health Center in the Democratic Republic of
the Congo’s (DRC) Christian-majority Lubero territory early Saturday morning, executing at least...
Church school, cathedral bombed in Bangladesh
By Bella Agnello --
On Nov. 7, a Catholic cathedral and school in Dhaka, Bangladesh, were bombed hours before a worship event that drew...
Uganda: Muslims kill five Christians, injure 44
Five Christians were killed and 44 others injured on Nov. 4 after an Islamist leader incited
Muslims to attack Christians over pork sales near a...
Iran: Christian prisoner denied treatment after breaking spine
By Lynn Arias --
Iranian authorities on Oct. 31 denied proper medical treatment to prisoner Aida Najaflou, an Iranian Christian convert, after she fell and...
Pastors and nine other Christians killed in Nigeria
Fulani assailants and other terrorists in Nigeria killed nine Christians in Plateau state and a
pastor in Kaduna state in the past week, sources said.
In...
Mob attacks church, police arrest pastor
When a Hindu extremist mob assaulted Christian men, women and children during a church service in India in late September, police jailed the pastor...
Imprisoned pastor transferred to medical unit
By Bella Agnello --
On Sept. 25, an imprisoned Kyrgyzstan pastor was transferred to the medical unit of the prison to receive treatment for injuries from his arrest 10 months earlier. The...
Hundreds of Muslims protest church construction
Hundreds of Muslims on Sumatra Island, Indonesia on Oct. 14 protested against
construction of a church building based on the area being predominantly Muslim, according...
Priest acquitted after 8-year legal battle for criticizing Islam
By Lynn Arias --
A court in Spain acquitted a priest, the Rev. Custodio Ballester of Barcelona, last week after the man endured a legal battle lasting...
China: Youth group raided in Beijing
Pastor Jin Mingri and the pastoral team of the Beijing Zion Church issued a prayer letter to inform that on Sunday a group of...