Update: Protestants Forced To FleeSeptember 8, 2005 — ANS - Protestant Christians amongst ethnic Huichol in Agua Fria, Jalisco state, western Mexico , are suffering severe persecution. (The Huichol are indigenous Indians descended from the Aztecs.) The village...
Police Jail another Protestant Wedding PartySeptember 8, 2005 — Compass - Eritrean police arrested a bridal couple from the banned Hallelujah Church along with their 18 wedding guests on Sunday night, dragging them to jail because they are Pentes...
Burma Military Closes Down Evangelical ChurchSeptember 8, 2005 — BosNewsLife - Burma 's military government has closed down a major evangelical church and movement in the capital Rangoon as part of a fresh crackdown on Christian congregations across the...
U.S. Court Calls for Deportation of Chinese ChristianSeptember 7, 2005 — Christianity Today For more than five years, Xiaodong Li and about half a dozen friends gathered weekly in their hometown of Ningbo , China , to study the Bible and...
Advocacy Group Launches ‘Guide’ For Helping Persecuted ChristiansSeptember 7, 2005 — BosNewsLife - A Christian advocacy group working in several hotspots of the world said Tuesday, September 6, it has launched a guide for Christians and churches on how to help...
Christian Activists Killed In PhilippinesSeptember 7, 2005 — BosNewsLife - A human rights lawyer was killed and a church pastor died following a previous attack in the Philippines amid concern the military is involved in growing violence against...
British Secretary Straw Condemns North Korea Labor Camps after Meeting ex-PrisonerSeptember 7, 2005 — BosNewsLife - British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw met former North Korea prisoner Kang Cheol Hwan Tuesday September 6, amid fresh reports that about 200,000 people are locked up in prison...
Imprisoned Indonesian Women Praise God Despite Three-Year SentenceSeptember 7, 2005 — Christian Today - On September 1, three Indonesian women were convicted of violating the 2002 Child Protection Law in Indonesia and were sentenced to three years in prison. Before the...
Ulema Council Condemns Church ClosuresSeptember 6, 2005 — AKI/Jakarta Post - The Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI) has joined a chorus of condemnation of the forced closure of dozens of local churches in West Java by radical Muslim conservatives,...
Muslims Ransack Christian VillageSeptember 6, 2005 — The Jerusalem Post Efforts were under way on Sunday to calm the situation in this Christian village east of Ramallah after an attack by hundreds of Muslim men from nearby...
Baptist Conscript Now ImprisonedSeptember 6, 2005 — Forum18 - Two months after a court in the unrecognised republic of Nagorno-Karabakh in the South Caucasus gave Baptist conscript Gagik Mirzoyan a suspended sentence for refusing to swear the...
Court Orders Christian Literature DestroyedSeptember 6, 2005 — Forum18 - Despite claims to Forum 18 News Service by senior religious affairs official Begzot Kadyrov that religious literature banned from distribution in Uzbekistan is not destroyed, a court has...
Cambodian Police Threaten VillagersSeptember 6, 2005 — Montagnard Foundation Media Release - On 1 September 2005 Chea Bun Thoeun, deputy provincial police chief of Rattanakiri province in O'Yadaw district announced that anyone caught assisting Montagnard asylum-seekers in...
World Hindu Council Call for Anti-Conversion Law in IndiaSeptember 5, 2005 — World Hindu Council Calls for Nationwide Anti-Conversion Law in India Hindu mob detains, assaults six Christian workers in Orissa state. by Vishal Arora (Compass) -- The Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP...
Militants Used Sham Marriages to Get US PapersSeptember 5, 2005 — Khaleej Times ICC has reported in our newsletter about the persecution of Islamic converts in the US from Islamic radicals. This article gives some insight into how these radicals are...
Thailand Visa Ban As Christians Mourn Murdered Health WorkersSeptember 5, 2005 — BosNewsLife - A Human rights official has expressed concern that Thailand 's reported ban on visit visas for citizens of Muslim countries will effect Christians fleeing persecution there, including Bangladesh...
