• Driscoll on Haiti Quake: Sex Trade Occurring in Port-au-Prince

  Pastor Mark Driscoll of Mars Hill Church in Seattle landed in “hell” this week where he witnessed a teenage boy shot in the head and a girl sold to an older man. He was in the collapsed city of Port-au-Prince where rubble from former buildings and streets piled with corpses give the impression of an aftermath of a war zone.

• 30 Chinese House Church Leaders Detained, Says Rights Group

  Thirty house church leaders were detained in a northern province in China last week, according to a human rights group specializing in Chinese house churches. The leaders, which included men and women, were members of the Chinese House Church Alliance, one of the detained pastors reported to ChinaAid Association before security forces were presumed to have confiscated his cell phone during the incident on Jan. 8.

• Persecution Expert: N. Korea Likely to Crack Down on Christians after Activist's Entry

  It is “very, very” unlikely that any good will come to North Korean Christians in the short term from the recent illegal entry of the Korean-American activist, said the president of a ministry that works with persecuted Christians.

• Persecution List: N. Korea, Iran Top Oppressors of Christians

  North Korea is for the eighth straight year the world’s top persecutor of Christians, according to Open Doors' 2010 World Watch List.

• N. Korea: American Detained for Illegal Christmas Eve Entry

  North Korea said Tuesday that it has detained an American who illegally entered the country, leading many to speculate that the detainee is Korean-American Christian activist Robert Park, who reportedly entered the reclusive country on Christmas Day to call for the release of prisoners.