For nearly nine months, an Algerian Christian convert from Islam still waits for a ruling on his appeal to the severe sentence handed him for allegedly proselytizing and defaming Islam and its prophet, according to Morning Star News.
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According to the Assyrian International News Agency, Assyrian Christians who have fled from an area of Syria called al-Thawrah (also known as al-Tabqah), have been told by rebels, “If you want to come back, convert to Islam, or you will be killed.”
Almost 60 Christians from around the world were detained last month for distributing Greek New Testaments to Greeks, according to Assist News Service.
...continue reading this storyA pastor's daughter in Nigeria has been abducted by a Muslim leader who forced her to convert to Islam in a sharia court.
...continue reading this storyEritrean authorities are punishing 39 Christian high school students by subjecting them to beatings and hard labor, according to Open Doors.
...continue reading this storyEgyptian security forces failed to intervene during a sectarian attack in Luxor that left four Copts dead and four others seriously injured, according to Amnesty International.
...continue reading this storyChina Aid reports raids on two house churches and a home Bible study in Xinjiang last month.
...continue reading this storyA Christian convert was tried in July by Branch 2 of the Revolutionary Court in Robat Karim.
...continue reading this storyWithin one year and without any legal pretext, 17 churches and chapels in the province of Aceh, Indonesia, have been closed under Islamic law.
...continue reading this storyEight Iranian Christians received long sentences Tuesday after being convicted of "action against the national security," a bogus charge often used against Muslim converts to Christianity, according to Morning Star News.
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