Elections in Lebanon Will Continue to Marginalize ChristiansMay 22, 2005 — (ANS) - Lebanon 's Christians have been marginalised by a programme of Islamisation. This has included the pro-Syrian regime's Naturalisation Decree of 1994 that naturalised hundreds of thousands of Syrians...
Government Should Help Christians in Saudi Arabia, says BishopMay 20, 2005 — http://www.asianews.it/view.php?l=en&art=3309 (AsiaNews) The Catholic Church and human rights groups are calling on the government of Pakistan to intervene on behalf of 40 Pakistani Christians arrested by the muttawa, Saudi...
President Urged byCopts Association to Promote Religious Freedom to Egyptian PMMay 19, 2005 — http://releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?id=47529 (ICC) - On behalf of the international Coptic community, the U.S. Copts Association has urged President George W. Bush to raise issues of Egyptian Christian human rights during his...
Protestants in Turkey Face Wave of AttacksMay 19, 2005 — (Compass) - Over the past six months, vigilante groups in at least five Turkish cities have threatened Protestant church workers and attacked their places of worship. Simultaneously, the Turkish media...
Iranian Christian Transferred from Tehran PrisonMay 17, 2005 — (Compass) - Iranian Christian Hamid Pourmand left Tehran s Evin Prison by armored car yesterday, en route to his home city of Bandar-i Bushehr to stand trial for his life...
Saudi Arabia Denies Access to Jailed ChristiansMay 16, 2005 — (Compass) - Five East African Christians arrested at a private Christian worship service three weeks ago are being refused access to visitors. Officers of the Mabahith internal security force told...
Convert Locked into Mental HospitalMay 14, 2005 — (Compass) - An Egyptian convert to Christianity is being held in a Cairo mental hospital, where supervising doctors have told him he will stay until he recants his faith and...
Catholic-run Radio Station BombedMay 11, 2005 — http://www.aina.org/news/2005059183729.htm (CNS) - A Catholic-run radio station in Lebanon was destroyed in a bombing attack May 6, the latest in a series of attacks in Lebanon 's Christian areas. The...
No Justice in Christian’s Case in UzbekistanMay 11, 2005 — (Forum 18) - When Christian convert Khaldibek Primbetov appealed to the prosecutor's office against fellow-villagers who had beaten him, told him to "return" to Islam or leave his home village...
Militant Islamic Unrest Continues In EgyptMay 7, 2005 — 200 members of Egypt 's banned Muslim Brotherhood group were arrested across the country on Friday after they defied police orders and continued banned protests. the official MENA news agency...
Pakistan Appeals for Detained ChristiansMay 6, 2005 — ICC has been following this case and others like it for a long time. The Saudi government indicates that they have been allowing more religious freedoms. This article from "Christian...
Saudi Police Raid Another House ChurchMay 5, 2005 — (Compass) - One week after arresting 40 Pakistani Christians, Saudi Arabia s muttawa religious police broke into another private worship service of expatriate Christians, arresting five elders of a house...
Forty Christians Arrested in Saudi ArabiaMay 4, 2005 — (ANS) - Forty Christians were arrested in Riyadh , Saudi Arabia , after attending a Christian service in a private apartment. The group included men, women and children, all of...
Iran Changes Venue for Apostasy TrialMay 2, 2005 — (Compass) - Iranian authorities abandoned preliminary hearings against Christian convert Hamid Pourmand before an Islamic sharia court in Tehran last week, apparently after news of his trial leaked out to...
Human Rights Commissioner Defends Religious Freedom RecordApril 29, 2005 — (Forum 18) - Azerbaijan 's human rights commissioner, or ombudsperson, Elmira Suleymanova, has repeatedly refused to recognise religious freedom violations - such as police raids on religious minorities and compulsory...
Iranian Christian Faces Death Penalty for ConversionApril 25, 2005 — (Compass) - An Iranian convert to Christianity has been on trial for his life for the past 10 days before an Islamic sharia court in Tehran for deserting Islam and...
