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In  jail, beaten, forgotten, and cut off from work, fellowship, friends, and family.  For Gao Zhisheng’s family, visiting the imprisoned Christian at his remote exile in western China takes days. Gao’s father-in-law and older brother made the trek in January: The pair rode a train nearly 2,000 miles from Shaanxi Province into the craggy mountains [...]

Kuwaiti MPs this week approved a law with a death penalty for Muslims who curse God, the Koran, all prophets and the wives of Islam’s Prophet Mohammed. Non-Muslims who commit the same offence face a jail term of not less than 10 years, according to the bill. Defendants who repent in court will be spared [...]

  The Swedish charity worker who was shot in the chest in Pakistan last week died in a Stockholm hospital on Wednesday night. Sveriges Television (SVT) reported that 71-year-old Birgitta Almeby died at the Karolinska Hospital in Stockholm late on Wednesday. She was receiving treatment after having been flown home to Sweden for specialist medical [...]