Thousands of people belonging to the predominantly Christian Karen as well as Karenni and Shan ethnic groups were hiding in Burma's jungle areas Saturday, December 9, as government forces continued their largest offensive in a decade, killing at least dozens of people in recent months, several sources told BosNewsLife.
...continue reading this storyPolice in Honavar, a coastal town in Karnataka state on Tuesday (December 5) arrested Chandrashekar Naik, a member of the Hindu extremist group Bajrang Dal, for assaulting a Christian evangelist. Later that day, Bajrang Dal members seized two other Christians in the town, marched them to the police station and accused them of attempted forcible conversion.
...continue reading this storyThere was mounting concern Tuesday, December, 5, about what at least one advocacy group described as a "huge increase" in attacks against Christians in India, where Hindu and some Muslim groups are apparently fighting the spread of Christianity.
...continue reading this storyEvangelical Christians in Uzbekistan faced another tense day Wednesday, December 6, amid an ongoing media campaign against them, police raids in churches and reports that Bibles and other literature are burnt by authorities.
...continue reading this storyA prosecuting attorney in Havana on Monday (December 4) recommended that the Rev. Carlos Lamelas be acquitted of all charges of trafficking in illegal emigrants.
...continue reading this storyGrieving Christians in Iraq’s northern city of Mosul completed three days of mourning for a murdered Presbyterian Church elder yesterday, only hours before another Iraqi clergyman was grabbed off the streets of Baghdad this morning.
...continue reading this storyChristians in China's Zhejiand faced a tense Sunday, December 3, amid reports that local authorities want to destroy a house church in the province.
...continue reading this storyA court in Bangladesh has sentenced two Islamic extremists to death for murdering Dr. Abdul Gani Gomes, a Christian convert from Islam, in September 2004.
...continue reading this storyThe Washington-DC based human rights group, International Christian Concern (ICC) www.persecution.org has learned that in early October, a mob of three hundred Muslims murdered six Christians, and seriously wounded fifteen others during a midnight worship service in Beshasha, a town located in the Agaro province, 408 kilometers West of Addis Ababa.
...continue reading this storyChina has secretly executed 15 members of a controversial underground church after founding them guilty "of murdering members of a rival sect," BosNewsLife learned Thursday, November 30.
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