Church Building Regulations EasedDecember 14, 2005 — Compass (12/13/05) Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak eased long-controversial restrictions on church repair last week in a decree that received mixed reactions from Egypts large Coptic Christian community. The old...
Christian Opposition MP Assassinated in LebanonDecember 13, 2005 — BosNewsLife (12/12/05) - A car bomb killed Christian member of parliament and Lebanese newspaper magnate Gebran Tueni in Beirut on Monday, December 12, a day after he returned from Paris...
Turkey’s Religious Communities Need Fundamental Reform of Their StatusDecember 13, 2005 — Forum18 (12/13/05) Commentary by Otmar Oehring - Turkey's Law on Foundations plays a central role in the country's religious freedom situation, as it directly affects religious communities' ownership of property....
Murder of Iranian Church Pastor PremeditatedDecember 11, 2005 — Sources Say Murder of Iranian House Church Pastor Premeditated Christian Post Michelle Vu The murder of an Iranian house church pastor last month was premeditated according to new details released...
Secret Police Ban Church Renting Hall?December 9, 2005 — Forum18 (12/09/05) - After four weeks of holding services in a rented hall in the capital Ashgabad [Ashgabat], the registered Greater Grace Protestant church was banned in late November from...
Church of St Nicholas Open to Local Mufti, but Closed For Mass on the Feast Day of Saint NicholasDecember 8, 2005 — AsiaNews In a warm and fertile land where a turquoise sea gently splashes against a beautiful shoreline rises a small Turkish town, Demre, which would have been lost to...
Christians Mourn Martyred ConvertDecember 7, 2005 — Compass Iranian Christians are mourning the death of Ghorban Dordi Tourani, an Iranian believer assassinated two weeks ago by an unnamed group of fanatical Muslims and the first Turkmen...
U.S. Accepts Iranian Christians for ResettlementDecember 7, 2005 — Compass The United States has approved emergency resettlement for a family of four Iranian Christians left stranded in Turkey since an October deportation order. Last week Zivar Khademian and...
Checkpoints, Walls Make Bethlehem an ‘Open-Air Prison,’ Christians SayDecember 6, 2005 — The Christian Post - The freedom of Bethlehem Christians is becoming endangered as the Israel occupation set up a new checkpoint at the citys border, turning it into what many...
Authorities Harass Protestant CommunitiesDecember 5, 2005 — Compass Turkey s Protestant Christian minorities experienced fresh harassment this past week from both security police and the judiciary, along with an attempt by vandals to set on fire...
Israel on the Front Lines of JihadDecember 3, 2005 — Israel , Front Line of the Global Jihad By Robert Spencer FrontPageMagazine.com Israel has become the worlds new South Africa : the villain du jour, the universal oppressor, the whipping-boy...
Persecution in Iran IncreasesDecember 3, 2005 — Persecution against Christian Converts in Iran Escalating Christian Post Eunice Or Christians in Iran , especially converts from Islam, have experienced growing persecution from the government since the new Iranian...
Pastor Fatally Crushed By TaxiDecember 3, 2005 — Compass Under threat from Egypt s security police for holding services at his house church, a Protestant pastor has been run down by a taxi in Cairo and died...
Yemeni Executed For Killing MissionariesDecember 2, 2005 — MNN - A Muslim militant was executed in connection to the December 2002 murders of three medical workers from the Southern Baptist International Mission Board in Yemen . According to...
Concern about Plight Kidnapped Christians in IraqDecember 1, 2005 — BosNewsLife - Christian Peacemaker Teams (CPT) said Wednesday, November 30, it was increasingly concerned about the plight of four of its kidnapped staff members in Iraq who were shown a...
Christian Goes Into Hiding to Avoid Court SentenceNovember 30, 2005 — Compass With an arrest warrant hanging over his head, Coptic Christian Shafik Saleh Shafik has gone into hiding in Egypt while his lawyers pursue an appeal over a controversial...
