Archive | May 22, 2012
Pakistan. Christians have been threatened and abused while trying to save their graveyard.

Pakistan. Christians have been threatened and abused while trying to save their graveyard.

Christians have been threatened and abused while trying to save their community’s graveyard from being turned into farmland in a dubious takeover bid. Retired army colonel Farrukh Alam has claimed ownership of the 150-acre plot in Bhondary Wala village in the Narang Mandi area, which has been used by Christians as a graveyard since before [...]

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Pakistan. “They murdered our children, they raped our daughter, We have nothing left with us.”

Pakistan. “They murdered our children, they raped our daughter, We have nothing left with us.”

A band of Muslims this month severely beat a pregnant Christian woman in Punjab’s Narowal district – causing her to lose female twins to miscarriage – in an effort pressure her family into dropping charges of raping her 13-year-old niece, the woman’s husband said. Asher Masih of Dhamala village told CDN by phone that the [...]

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IRAN. Church asked for help to free Alireza Seyyedian who was sentenced to six years imprisonment.

IRAN. Church asked for help to free Alireza Seyyedian who was sentenced to six years imprisonment.

A major evangelical house church movement in Iran urged the international community Sunday, May 20, to help free its songwriter and devoted Christian Alireza Seyyedian who was sentenced to six years imprisonment for “threatening national security” and “propaganda”. In a mobile phone message he said: “I was arrested on the [Iranian]-Turkish border. They are transferring [...]

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Indonesia. Islamic extremists attacked again the Protestant Christian Batak Church in Bekasi.

Indonesia. Islamic extremists attacked again the Protestant Christian Batak Church in Bekasi.

A mob of Islamic extremists struck again the prayer house of the Hkbp Filadelfia Protestant community (Protestant Christian Batak Church) in Bekasi, a suburb of Jakarta (West Java), despite the presence of the police deployed to defend Christian worship. The assault took place yesterday morning, while the faithful gathered for Sunday celebrations. On May 17, [...]

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