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.
Five of seven Christians killed by terrorists were children
Fulani herdsmen on Aug. 24 attacked a predominantly Christian village in Kaduna state,
Nigeria, killing seven people, including a 1-year-old infant, residents said.
In Angwan Rimi...
Iran: 10-Year prison sentence for house church leader
Mehran Shamloui, a Christian convert, has been denied a retrial for his case by the Iranian Supreme Court.
Shamloui was arrested in 2024 and sentenced to 10 years and...
Catholic pilgrims attacked en route to Mary shrine, one killed
Muslims on Sunday (Sept. 7) shot to death one Catholic and wounded another as they traveled to a Marian pilgrimage site in Punjab Province,...
70 Christians killed attending wake
Before dawn on Tuesday, Sept. 9, a devastating attack by the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) shattered the Congolese Christian community in Ntoyo-Mangurujipa, Lubero Territory,...
Minneapolis reels after Catholic school shooting
By Mark Ellis --
A devastating shooting at Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis shattered a peaceful morning Mass on August 27, claiming the lives of...
200 house churches closed
More than 200 house churches in the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh have been affected following new restrictions on worshipping inside a house, claiming...
Pakistan: Christian teen kidnapped, forced into sex slavery
A Christian girl rescued from a Muslim in Pakistan who abducted her said he forcibly
converted her, sexually assaulted her as part of a sham...
‘We found Bibles and hymn books covered in blood’
MONUSCO, the United Nations’ mission to the DRC, issued a release Monday accusing the
Islamic State group-backed ADF terror group of killing at least 52...
Authorities close Christian prayer house in Indonesia, evict evangelist
On Aug. 2, local authorities in Purbayani Village, Caringin District, Garut Regency, Indonesia, permanently closed the Immanuel Prayer House, a part of Bethel Tabernacle...
Former sheikh beaten, loses family after vision of Christ
A Muslim who put his faith in Christ after receiving a vision in a mosque in Uganda was
hospitalized after relatives beat him, demolished his...