Pakistani President Calls for Review of Islamic Laws that(Jihad Watch) - Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf called on Saturday for a review of controversial Islamic laws that human rights groups say are discriminatory against women and non-Muslim minorities. Speaking…
Victory: Egyptian Court Reverses Religious Identity Card(Compass) - In an unprecedented verdict on April 13, an Egyptian court ordered the Interior Ministry to return formal Christian identity status to a Coptic Christian who had converted to…
Military Sent Into Central Highlands(ICC) - ICC is receiving reports that military units have been sent into Pleiku and Dak Lak provinces in Vietnam . These regions are in the Central Highlands where over…
Two Chinese Priest Arrested(DeepikaGlobal.com) - Chinese police arrested two underground Catholic priests last week in Hebei province, the U.S.-based Cardinal Kung Foundation announced today. The religious rights organization said in a statement the…
Vietnamese Christians Face Propaganda War(Compass) - During Easter weekend, April 10 and 11, Montagnards in Vietnam s Central Highlands attempted to stage public demonstrations to call attention to harsh injustices they suffer at the…
Pakistani Pastors Feared Kidnapped(Compass) - After a series of handwritten threats sent to Christian leaders in the Pakistani city of Quetta last week, at least one Protestant pastor has been reported missing by…
Christian Couple Escape After Ordeal of Torture(Compass) - Thirteen months after Egypt jailed and tortured a Coptic Christian pharmacist for marrying a former Muslim woman, Boulos Farid Rezek-Allah Awad was finally allowed to emigrate from Egypt…
President Revokes Criminalization of Religion(Forum 18) - Under intense international pressure over its repression of religious life, Turkmenistan 's president Saparmurat Niyazov has today (13 May) revoked the punishments introduced into the Criminal Code…
Turkish Pastor Acquitted of Criminal Charges(Compass) In what the Hurriyet newspaper called a jet acquittal, a criminal court in southeastern Turkey dropped all charges yesterday against a Protestant pastor accused of opening an illegal church…
Violence Between Muslims and Christians Continues: An Estimated 500 Christians Have Died(Jihad Watch) Muslim mobs brandishing machetes and clubs attacked Christians in the streets of Kano on Wednesday as security forces struggled to quell a two-day rampage to avenge a massacre…
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Sudan: ‘Some Difficulties’ Encountered At Peace Talks, Say Rebels(ICC) Peace negotiations between the government of Sudan and the Sudan People's Liberation Movement/Army SPLM/A) were experiencing "some difficulties" on Tuesday, a rebel spokesman told IRIN. The details of power-sharing…
UN Scolds Ethnic Albanians(ERPKIM) The European Union and many Security Council members sent a tough message to Kosovo's ethnic Albanian leaders following the worst violence in five years: Build a multi-ethnic democracy or…
Serbian Foreign Minister calls for greater protection for Serb minorities(ERPKM) Serbia and Montenegro's foreign minister is urging greater protection for Serbian minorities in Kosovo. The minister spoke at a VOA news conference in Washington after meeting with officials from…
Keep Important Abolitionist Law from being Taken Off the Books(Freedom Action Network) Your support is urgently needed to save a crucial piece of abolitionist legislation! Last summer, thousands of people vigilantly urged the U.S. government to pass the 2003…
Chinese Christians Testify of Persecution before UN Commission. . .Despite testimony of official abuse, UNCHR fails to censure China.(Compass) Chinese Christians gave evidence of persecution at a special meeting called by the United Nations Commission on Human Rights (UNCHR) in April. The speakers included Xu Yongze of the…
