Sri Lanka: Anti-Conversion Bill Revived in Parliament
Sri Lanka's Parliament has appointed a 19-member committee to review a bill that would outlaw "forcible" conversion, before it is presented for a final vote.
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Health Jailed Cuban Christian "Significantly Worsens"
The health of a leading Christian Cuban prisoner of conscience has "significantly worsened," amid abuse inside the detention facility where at least one person was killed in recent days, his wife said Monday, April 24.
...continue reading this storyEvangelical Missionaries Fear Bloodshed In East Timor
Evangelical missionaries in East Timor warned Monday, April 24, of new bloodshed after troops dismissed from the armed forces threatened to wage a new guerrilla war in the troubled Southeast Asian nation.
...continue reading this storyNorth Korea Christian Faces Imminent Execution
Family members and human rights activists urged the international community Saturday, April 22, to pressure North Korea not to execute a Christian man who has been accused of "betrayal" and "espionage" by the Communist government.
...continue reading this storyAnti-Missionary "Witch-Hunt" Haunts City
Fanned by local media and a Muslim mufti, an anti-missionary witch-hunt targeting Christians in Turkey's eastern city of Bingol left a Muslim woman beaten in her tailor shop last month while police allowed her attacker to walk free.
...continue reading this storyGuinea Family "Kidnaps" Wife Of Native Missionary
A native missionary in Guinea was without his wife Thursday, April 20, after she was kidnapped by her family, in a case that has come to symbolize tensions between minority Christians and members of other traditional religious groups in the West African nation.
...continue reading this storyPastors Arrested for 'Fraudulent Conversion' in India
Police backed by Hindu extremists arrested Avinash Lal, an independent Pentecostal pastor from Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh state, and six other Christian leaders last night (April 18) on charges on 'fraudulent conversion.'
...continue reading this storyChina Detains Americans, Taiwanese, and House Church Leaders
Chinese security forces detained seven foreign evangelical church leaders, including five Americans and two Taiwanese pastors, as part of a government crackdown on China's evangelical movement, friends and investigators said Wednesday, April 19.
...continue reading this storyAnother Christian Pastor, Scores of Muslims Jailed in Eritrea
Besides the jailing of another Protestant pastor in February, authorities have also jailed 70 Muslims over the past two years for opposing the government appointment of the chief mufti.
...continue reading this storyEgypt Orders Arrests Of Muslim Militant For Stabbing Christians
Egyptian authorities on Monday, April 17, ordered the detention of a Muslim who entered a Cairo church with a knife days after another Muslim stabbed six Christians, killing one, in Alexandria, news reports said.
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