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Two masked men armed with Kalashnikov assault rifles tried to kidnap a businessman called George Alumeh in the ancient Christian town of Maloula, north-west of Damascus, last week. It was not the first kidnap attempt on richer members of the Christian community here and Mr Alumeh was prepared. He fought back, first drawing a pistol, [...]

The founder of the South China Church, serving a 19-year prison sentence, has suffered a stroke that has left him paralyzed and unable to speak, but prison officials have refused the family’s request to release Gong Shengliang on medical parole. Gong, who is in his 60s, suffered a stroke at 8 p.m. on Dec. 2 [...]

The Lebanese city of Zahle sits high in the Bekaa valley, on the ancient highway that connects Damascus to Beirut and the world beyond. To reach it from the coast by road in December you climb sharply through a series of hairpin bends – every few minutes you catch a glimpse of the steep highland [...]

The non-Muslim population resident in the Muslim dominated northern Nigerian State of Kano continues to suffer death in the hands on the native Kano indigene. Information available to 247ureports.com indicates that two teenage students, aged 16 and 17 years were shot dead by unknown Muslim gunmen on Thursday December 6, 2012 at the Yankaba area [...]

Members of the Living Faith Church (a branch of Winners Chapel) along Airport road in Ilorin, the Kwara state capital woke up Monday morning to find their new church razed down by unknown people. The new church building which was constructed about two months ago has been an issue of litigation between the church and [...]

As reports from Cairo reach America, it’s hard to ignore what Lila has to say. “It’s not safe at all,” said Lila, whose name has been changed to protect the brother and sister she hopes to get out of Egypt as soon as she possibly can. On Tuesday, an Associated Press story about recent clashes [...]

Iraq’s Christians, who are celebrating the reopening of the cathedral of Baghdad are at the same time subjected to new – and heavy – threats from a radical Shiite Muslim leader. From studies of a television broadcaster based in Egypt, an Iraqi Ayatollah launches a fatwa against the religious minority on the eve of Christmas: [...]

A group of Egypt’s Christian women voters were banned on Saturday in Cairo’s Nasr City from casting their ballot in a disputed constitutional referendum, an Al Arabiya correspondent and AFP reported. Nasr City was the scene of mass rallies last night as Islamists who support President Mohammed Mursi took to the streets. Details of banning [...]

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 [...]