Human Rights Watch said Friday, May 13, "new evidence" shows Vietnamese security forces continue "to mistreat and arbitrarily detain" Christian minorities, despite reports that a prominent Christian was released after a decade in prison.
...continue reading this storyThere was concern Thursday, May 12, about demonstrations by Hindu militants in Nepal after reports that authorities released a Christian Indian couple detained for allegedly evangelizing among Hindu orphans.
...continue reading this storyA Malaysian court has freed two United States citizens detained for ten days for allegedly distributing Christian pamphlets to Muslims, police and American officials told reporters Tuesday, May 10.
...continue reading this storyNigerian police have made dozens of arrests after religious violence reportedly killed up to 18 people, most of them Christians, including one girl who was first raped and poisoned to death by Muslim militants.
...continue reading this storyOne week after arresting 40 Pakistani Christians, Saudi Arabia’s vigilante religious police broke up another private worship service of expatriate Christians in the capital last Friday.
...continue reading this storyA crowd of nearly 500 Hindu villagers attacked the pastor of a house church, his wife and other church members in the southern state of Karnataka on May 1. The attackers sexually molested female church members and burned Bibles and other Christian literature.
...continue reading this storyVoodoo leaders in a rural area of the African nation of Benin have attacked Christian missionaries and kidnapped their two young children to kill and "sacrifice" them to a voodoo god, sources told BosNewsLife Tuesday, May 3.
...continue reading this storyThe government of Vietnam is stepping up its persecution of minority Christians, according to detailed accounts received recently by Freedom House’s Center for Religious Freedom.
...continue reading this storyA married couple who run two children’s homes in Nepal were imprisoned on April 27, charged with forced conversion, according to a ministry report from EquipNepal.
...continue reading this storyPakistani Christian who was shown kindness by his Muslim employer has been attacked and beaten by a gang of Muslims. Shahbaz Masih was attacked by a group of seven or eight Muslims from his village on April 23 and left for dead, with both legs broken, says a report from the Barnabas Fund.
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