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August 27, 2008, 02:06:35 PM
Country: Iraq, Islam Iraqi Christians need your prayer and support as they go through a difficult time in their history. Following the invasion of the country in 2003, they are faced with unprecedented persecution.
August 27, 2008, 01:56:54 PM
Country: China Eddie Perez Romero, the American Pastor who was arrested after presenting himself in Tiananmen square and was reported missing, has been released and is now at home in Los Angeles. However, a key Chinese Bishop has been detained.
August 27, 2008, 01:52:07 PM
Country: Egypt, Islam When Maher al-Gohari decided to request Egyptian authorities to recognize his conversion from Islam to Christianity, his brother and parents threatened to kill him. In some Muslim countries, it is punishable by death to convert from Islam to other religions.
August 27, 2008, 01:51:51 PM
Country: India More than 600 churches have been demolished, 4,000 Christians forced to flee from their villages, and at least 25 killed as a result of violent persecution in the state of Orissa in eastern India.
August 26, 2008, 07:28:47 PM
Country: India ICC has learned from sources within Orissa that anti-Christian violence continues with little to no response from the government. According to ICC sources inside Orissa, 150 houses and 20 churches have been destroyed while some groups are reporting as many as 300 houses and churches destroyed. ICC sources indicate that most places are without curfew in contradiction to the government’s claims
August 26, 2008, 03:26:37 PM
Country: India A story published in the Hindu Online reported that protesters burned alive a 20-year-old woman in an orphanage at Khuntpalli village in Bargarh district. In Kandhamal district, where the Swami and four others were killed by suspected Maoists on Saturday night, a villager was burned to death.
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August 26, 2008, 02:21:55 PM
Country: Iraq, Islam Due to enormous persecution, thousands of Iraqi Christians are forced to leave their home country. However, this doesn’t end their plight. Many of these Iraqi Christians are forced to live in countries where they can’t work and send their children to school. Western countries should do more to give asylum to Iraqi Christians and other minorities.
August 26, 2008, 01:59:38 PM
Country: Pakistan Sohail Johnson, the chief coordinator of the Sharing Life Ministry Pakistan (SLMP) has called for remission on the time they spend in jail for Pakistani Christian prisoners on passing Bible study courses.
August 26, 2008, 01:54:55 PM
Country: Islam, Somalia Islamist extremists in Somalia are bent on forming Islamic state where Islamic law becomes the law of the land. The Islamists are responsible for killing a number of Muslim converts to Christianity in the past few months alone. As this article indicates, piracy is one of the sources of income for the Islamists.
August 26, 2008, 01:51:41 PM
Country: Islam The governor of the Northern Nigerian state of Kano said that he will fulfill his promise of implementing Sharia law. Though the Nigerian Muslims argue that Sharia law doesn’t affect Christians, this argument doesn’t hold water. In countries where Sharia law is applied Christians face persecution and discrimination.
August 26, 2008, 01:30:21 PM
Country: Vietnam USCIRF has issued a report on Vietnam that includes the findings of the Commission's trip to Vietnam in 2007 and highlights government-sponsored abuse and repression of religious communities. In light of their findings, the report calls on the U.S. State Department to re-designate the country as a "country of particular concern."
August 26, 2008, 01:02:44 PM
Country: Philippines The Philippine government is calling for Muslim guerrillas to disarm when peace talks resume to prevent further attacks once an agreement is signed, but the guerrillas have said that they will not disarm until they see a signed peace pact being successfully enforced. Anything else, they say, is surrender.
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