China sentenced a crippled prominent house church leader to two years in prison on charges of "illegal business practices" after he printed and distributed Bibles for other Christians "free of charge", fellow believers confirmed Friday, October 20.
...continue reading this storyReligious rights investigators expressed concern Thursday, October 19, about the situation of evangelical Christians in Ethiopia after Muslim leaders reportedly attacked dozens of believers, seriously injuring 12 people, including a pregnant woman, outside Addis Ababa, the capital.
...continue reading this storyPakistan has released a psychiatrically disordered man who was accused of setting alight some pages of Quran, the Muslims holy book last year, ANS has learnt.
...continue reading this storyUp to eight Christian workers at a home for the destitute in India’s Karnataka state were in jail Wednesday, October 18, on charges of "wrongful confinement, abduction and cheating" after apparently incorrect television reports led to a riot around the facility, Christian investigators said.
...continue reading this storyA Muslim sheikh jailed in Egypt for 18 months has declared from his prison cell that he is under arrest for “insulting Islam†by becoming a Christian.
...continue reading this storyEritrean security police tortured two Christians to death yesterday, two days after arresting them for holding a religious service in a private home south of Asmara.
...continue reading this storyLeaders of Indonesia's embattled Christian minority urged authorities Tuesday, October 17, to catch the killers of a Protestant pastor, whose church defended three Catholics before they were executed last month for alleged involvement in violence against Muslims.
...continue reading this storyA Christian high school teacher at Government College in Keffi, in the northern state of Nasarawa, is on trial for blasphemy after he disciplined a Muslim student.
...continue reading this storyNews has just been received by ASSIST News Service that at around 9 am this morning (Monday, October 16, 2006), the acting head of the Protestant Church in Central Sulawesi, Indonesia, was assassinated. He was shot in the head on a street in Palu, the capital of Central Sulawesi, Indonesia -- the same region where three Catholic Christians were recently executed.
...continue reading this storyA teenage girl was "mercilessly beaten and punished" by Muslim teachers at her school for "defending" her faith in Christ and wearing a cross, amid growing concern over violence against Christian women and girls in the Asian nation, Pakistani Christians said Friday, October 13.
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