Family and friends are searching for two Christian government workers jailed in Bhutan for showing the internationally acclaimed 'Jesus' film, a well informed source said Monday, July 10, on condition of anonymity for security reasons.
...continue reading this storyFor two years Francis Yohanna Anche, 15, has been suffering from a brain injury he sustained when Muslim students in his high school in Zaria city attacked Christian students. His right hand and leg are still paralyzed from a machete cut to his head.
...continue reading this storyChristians involved in peacekeeping in Somalia urged the international community to intervene, as rival militias reportedly prepared for battled Saturday, July 8, in the troubled African nation's capital Mogadishu.
...continue reading this storyChristian leaders warned Friday, July 7, that the Communist-led government in the Indian state of Kerala is attempting to "takeover" schools from Christians and other minorities by introducing measures allegedly aimed at ending the independence of religious education.
...continue reading this storyThree leaders of a controversial religious group were awaiting their execution Friday, July 7, and one house church pastor continued serving a seven and a half years prison term for his Christian activities, co-workers and a religious rights group said.
...continue reading this storyOver 150 young Dalit girls remained in a state of shock Thursday, July 6, just hours after Hindu militants reportedly attempted to rape and kill them in an orphanage run by a major evangelical mission group in the Indian state of Rajasthan.
...continue reading this storyChurch leaders here said Muslim extremists overwhelmed police officers providing refuge for an unidentified Christian woman in this town in Niger state on June 28 and stoned and clubbed her to death for doing street evangelism.
...continue reading this storyAt least three people were killed and 30 others injured when Nigeria's 'Taliban' militia attacked a Christian village in Taraba State, rights watchers and news reports said Wednesday July 5.
...continue reading this storySuspected Islamic militants shot and killed a 47-year-old pastor and his 22-year-old daughter in Mindanao, the second largest and easternmost island of the Philippines, investigators said Thursday, July 6.
...continue reading this storyA Laotian listener to an evangelical radio station was believed to be in prison Tuesday, July 4, for spreading Christianity among fellow villagers after becoming a 'born-again' Christian in May this year, investigators said.
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