Persecution
Iran: Parliament passes apostasy death bill
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By Elizabeth Kendal
World Evangelical Alliance Religious Liberty Commission (WEA RLC)
Special to ASSIST News Service, Republished with permission
AUSTRALIA (ANS) – That apostasy (leaving Islam) is an enormously risky even deadly business in any Muslim country is [...]
Christians hide in forests as Hindu mobs ransack villages
As death toll rises, Prime Minister denounces ‘national shame’ in state of Orissa where 60 churches were burned down. In Guardian.co.uk.
Saudi man kills daughter for converting to Christianity
A Saudi man working with the Commission for Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice recently killed his daughter for converting to Christianity. The death of the girl sent shockwaves and websites where the victim used to write with various nick names have allocated special space to mourn her, while some others closed temporarily in
protest. [...]
Christians attacked in Nigeria
An Islamic group in Nigeria’s Kwara state is attacking Christians, blaming Christian prayers for a Muslim leader’s death. In Compass Direct.
New Martyr in Somalia
Islamic extremists shot and killed a Muslim convert
to Christianity on July 10, 2008 in Afgyoye, a town 18 miles away from
Mogadishu, Somalia’s capital. The victim’s name was Sayid Ali Sheik
Luqman Hussein, and he was 28 years old. He was the fifth believer martyred in Somalia in the last nine months. In Assist News.
King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia calls for tolerance.
King Abdullah of
Saudi Arabia, opening a Madrid conference bringing together Muslims, Christians, Jews and Buddhists, called on followers of the world’s main religions to
turn away from extremism and embrace a spirit of reconciliation. More in Assist News.
Algerians convicted for evangelizing
Two Algerian Christians were each handed a (British Pounds) £800 fine and six-month suspended jail terms yesterday, after an Algerian court found them guilty of unlawfully trying to convert Muslims to their faith. According to their lawyer, Khelloudja Khalfoun, convicts, Rachid Mohammed Seghir, 40, and Jammal Dahmani, 36, were sentenced for distributing documents that aimed [...]
North Korea: Faith Remains Alive
Stories trickle out of the reclusive country of North Korean Christians
worshipping quietly in homes or in small gatherings at restaurants,
while hiding Bibles to avoid internment in gulags (labor camps). The
number of Christians is unknown among the country’s 20 million people. In Baptist Press.
Iraq: Worse for Christians Now Than under Saddam Hussein
The Reverend Canon Andrew White, affectionately known as The Vicar of
Baghdad, says the situation for Christians in Iraq is “clearly worse”
than under the Saddam Hussein regime, toppled by US and Coalition
forces in 2003. In Assist News Service.
Indonesia: Church in West Java Bulldozed
Public Order officials on June 26 demolished a church building in
Cimahi regency of Bandung district, West Java, to make way for a new
shopping mall and bus terminal after church leaders failed to convince
authorities that they owned the land on which it was built. In Compass Direct.
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