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The new mayor of Tasikmalaya in West Java, Indonesia, has vowed to implement Shari’a in order to repay Muslim leaders who backed his successful election campaign. Budi Setiawan announced in November that the town’s bylaws would be based on Islamic law in both custom and behavior. However, His Honor’s plans were met with dissent. Earlier [...]

The leadership of the church have been receiving death threats. The Christian community is in shock and feels vulnerable. An unidentified gunman shot a Swedish missionary and charity worker in Lahore, Pakistan, on December 3, 2012. Seventy year-old Sister Bargeeta Almeby was attacked outside her residence at Model Town while coming back from her office, [...]

Christians in Syria, both Orthodox and Catholic, are increasingly becoming targets in the Syrian Civil War. Christians are reporting of the torture and subsequent murder of a Syrian Orthodox parish priest caught up in the violence of the Syrian Civil War. As reported, Father Fadi Haddad recently left his parish in the town of Qatana [...]