Woman Faces Threat of Honor Killing in Pakistan

April 24, 2004 — (http://www.feminist.org/news/newsbyte/uswirestory.asp?id=8378) A young woman from the Sindh Province of Pakistan has appealed to Pakistans President Musharraf for protection from being killed in the name of "honor." According to IRIN News,...

Church Demolished, Christians Forced Into “Truce” With Animists

April 23, 2004 — (Compass) Quechua-speaking villagers in Bolivia are living under an uneasy truce two months after an irate mob destroyed the sole evangelical church in their remote Andean community. On March 9,...

House Churches Raided on Easter Sunday

April 23, 2004 — (Compass) Three Protestant house churches in Sarpang district, southern Bhutan, were raided by police on April 11, following Easter Sunday services. No arrests were made, but church members were warned...

Pakistani Christian Murdered in His Home

April 23, 2004 — (Jubilee Campaign) George Masih was recently gunned down by two assailants while asleep in his home. Masih, 35, was married with three children. Investigators from the Center for Legal Aid,...

Blind Christian Human Rights Worker Receives Trial After Two Year Imprisonment

April 23, 2004 — (ICC) Juan Carlos Gonzalez Leiva, a blind Christian human rights activist, will finally be put on trial in Cuba on April 27 after spending over two years in prison. According...

12 Muslim Extremists Could Face Death Penalty for Torching Christian Village

April 23, 2004 — (News Straights Times) At least 12 Indonesian Muslims could face the death penalty if convicted under an anti-terror law of a bloody revenge attack on a Christian village, a prosecutor...

Elections Begin: Could be Future of Christianity in India

April 22, 2004 — (Compass) Christians were apprehensive as voting began on April 20, the first day of Indias general elections. With the nations recent history of religious oppression, this years election could prove...

Senator Brownback Decries Montagnard Slayings

April 22, 2004 — (ICC) U.S. Senator Sam Brownback yesterday sent a letter to Secretary of State Colin Powell urging him to declare Vietnam a Country of Particular Concern and investigate reports of egregious...

Methodists Fight Off Church Stealing

April 22, 2004 — (Forum 18) A Korean Methodist church in northern Moscow appears to have fought off an attempt by a commercial firm to steal their church building. A district court ruled against...

Islamic Extremist Group Vows to Kill All Somalian Christians

April 21, 2004 — (Reuters) The Mogadishu based Somali fundamentalist group, Kulanka Culimada, accused Christian aid workers in Somalia of spreading Christianity in the coastal city of Merca. Reuters reported on April 21 that...

Christians Threatened With Being Shot if they do not Convert to Islam

April 21, 2004 — (Forum 18) Amid a major crackdown, eleven Protestants in Nukus were questioned at the public prosecutor's office and pressured to convert to Islam. They were also threatened with being shot,...

Islam Allowed to Recite Prayers Over Loud Speaker

April 21, 2004 — (Foxnews.com) Over some residents' objections, the City Council voted unanimously Tuesday night to allow a mosque to send out a call to prayer to Muslims (search) on a loudspeaker. The...

Jihad Included in School Textbooks

April 21, 2004 — (Pakistan Daily Times) The National Committee on Curriculum (NCC) has agreed that there was no deletion of verses and chapters regarding jihad or holy war from Islamiyat textbooks. The co-author...

Imam Supports Wife Beating; Urges Jihad

April 21, 2004 — (AP) A Muslim prayer leader quoted by a magazine as saying that he favours wife-beating under certain circumstances will have to answer for his remarks before judicial authorities, France's justice...

European Union Voices Concern Over Attack of Montagnards

April 21, 2004 — (ICC) The European Union expressed concern Tuesday about bloody clashes that erupted after security forces broke up protests by ethnic minority Protestants over Easter in Vietnam's Central Highlands. "The EU...

Violence Erupts as Peace Talks Stall

April 21, 2004 — (ANS) The Sudan peace talks being held in Naivasha, Kenya, have deadlocked over the use of Sharia Law in Khartoum, and the status of three disputed provinces. The peace deal...