As over 100 Pakistani Christians were arrested in mid-March following the lynching of two Muslim men wrongly thought to be involved in two earlier church bombings that killed 17, some 30 prisoners have been released and show clear signs of being abused and tortured by the police.
...continue reading this storyA U.S. court has awarded $330 million to Shurat HaDin, or Israel Law Center, on behalf of the U.S.-based family of Rev. Kim Dong-Shik, a Christian missionary and activist who was abducted by North Korean agents inside China and later killed in North Korea.
...continue reading this storyUnder pressure from Hindu extremists, local officials kept a church from meeting on Good Friday (April 3) in India's Uttar Pradesh state and ordered the pastor to vacate the property, a church leader told Morning Star News.
...continue reading this storyA mob of more than 700 Hindus assaulted 45 mourners as they began burial rites for an elderly Christian woman at a cemetery in Faridabad, India, on March 6.
...continue reading this storyThe government of Myanmar is about to pass a series of so-called religious protection bills into law after its Lower House approved two of the bills on March 19, according to Barnabas Aid.
...continue reading this storyThe recent rape of an elderly nun in West Bengal, India, was part of a premeditated attack against Christian institutions, according to Morning Star News.
...continue reading this storyPolice in Thailand have arrested more than 400 Pakistani Christian refugees, according to CBN News.
...continue reading this storyA Protestant pastor has been missing in North Korea for more than a month, according to Asia News.
...continue reading this storyFive church leaders in Laos were convicted last week of being "illegal doctors" after they prayed for a sick woman who later died, according to Morning Star News.
...continue reading this storyPakistan's Punjab Province has excluded Christians from a list of defendants who will have their blasphemy cases expedited for acquittal for lack of evidence, according to Morning Star News.
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