During a panchayat or village council meeting convened last Thursday (November 9) to address threats against Christians in a village in Chhattisgarh state, a local politician and his associates attacked six believers, including a pregnant woman.
...continue reading this storyA day after the US removed Vietnam from it list of 'countries of particular concern' regarding religious freedom, human rights workers said a Montagnard Christian was "hanged" by security forces who also "tortured" and "detained" other believers and pro-democracy activists.
...continue reading this storyFamily members continued searching Monday, November 13, for a kidnapped Protestant missionary in Vietnam amid a government-crackdown on Protestants and pro-democracy activists ahead of the Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation (APEC) summit here, dissidents and investigators told BosNewsLife.
...continue reading this storyUnknown assailants bombed the entrance of a Catholic church in Mosul last week, destroying three sets of doors as well as windows in the church, monastery and guest house.
...continue reading this storyA Nairobi court yesterday acquitted two U.S. evangelists and their Kenyan counterparts of charges of inciting Muslims to violence.
...continue reading this storyPakistan's longest jailed Christian prisoner of conscious was preparing for his release Saturday, November 11, following eight and a half years behind bars, after the Lahore High Court acquitted him of blasphemy charges.
...continue reading this storyUnidentified assailants hurled six Molotov cocktails at a Protestant place of worship in western Turkey last Saturday (November 4), breaking windows and inflicting minor damages on the exterior of the building.
...continue reading this storyHindu extremists yesterday forced Christians in the remote village of Bevainahalli, in the southern state of Karnataka, to bow down before Hindu deities and applied the vermilion mark to their foreheads. It was the second such incident in Chitradurga district in a little over a week.
...continue reading this storyThe high court of India's western state of Gujarat heard a counter complaint Monday, November 6, from eight Christian missionaries accused of forced conversion and attempted murder. The Christians said police tortured them after they were attacked by Hindu militants.
...continue reading this storyThere was concern Monday, November 6, about the whereabouts of four Christian youngsters amid reports they were detained more than a week ago in India's southern state of Karnataka on charges of "forcible converting Hindus."
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