Police Raiders Claim There is No Need for Christianity

October 1, 2004 — (Forum 18) - In the latest of several attacks on Protestants, Police and National Security Service (NSS) secret police have raided a prayer meeting of the Greater Grace church in...

Coptic Leaders Call for End to Christian Persecution

September 30, 2004 — (PRNewswire) - Egyptian Coptic leaders from around the world have urged the government of President Hosni Mubarak to initiate 'Special Legislation' designed to end 'long and enduring persecution' of Christians...

ICC Urges Pope to Confront President Musharraf

September 28, 2004 — International Christian Concern 2020 Pennsylvania Ave. NW #941 u Washington DC 20006-1846 www.www.persecution.org / Email: icc@www.persecution.org For Immediate Release International Christian Concern Urges Pope to Confront Pakistani President Musharraf on...

Church Raided by Authorities

September 28, 2004 — (ICC) - On Friday, 24th September 2004 the Saudi Religious authorities (the Mutawa) raided a gathering of about 300 Christians. They have confiscated all the materials and equipment belonging to...

Church Singled Out for Hostility

September 27, 2004 — (Forum 18) - Masis Mailyan, deputy foreign minister of the unrecognised enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh, has insisted to Forum 18 News Service that, despite the latest police raid on a Baptist...

Christian Defendant Faces Saudi Court

September 25, 2004 — (AsiaNews) - A Saudi court has held its first hearing on charges against a Christian man who has been imprisoned for six months for practicing his faith, the AsiaNews service...

Report Identifies Religious Persecution

September 22, 2004 — (ENI) - Saudi Arabia, North Korea and Laos top the list of the worst violators of religious freedom, according to the 2004 Report on Religious Freedom published in Rome by...

Court Postpones Widows Last Hearing

September 21, 2004 — (Compass) - The Muslim guardian of Christian widow Siham Qandahs minor children failed to appear yesterday before the Al-Abdali Sharia court in Amman , Jordan . Abdullah al-Muhtadi, Qandahs estranged...

Tortured Indian Christian Before Islamic Court

September 17, 2004 — (ANS) - A major Catholic news service joined an international campaign Friday, September 17, to free a "tortured" Christian guest worker from India who was reportedly produced before an Islamic...

Medical Institute Expels Protestant Students

September 16, 2004 — (Forum 18) - After pressure earlier in the year on Protestant students in Nukus in the autonomous region of Karakalpakstan [Qoraqalpoghiston], two students were expelled from the town's medical institute...

U.S. Accuses Government of Particularly Severe Violations of Religious Freedom

September 16, 2004 — (ANS) - Saudi Arabia has been accused by the Bush administration of particularly severe violations of religious freedom. The criticism came in the U.S. Department of State sixth Annual Report...

One Iranian Pastor Still Jailed

September 15, 2004 — (Compass) - Protestant church leaders in Iran learned this morning that one of 10 evangelical pastors reportedly released from detention by police authorities on September 12 is still being held...

Christian Leaders Released

September 14, 2004 — (ANS) - Ten Pentecostal pastors and elders of Irans Assemblies of God Church arrested last week have been released, a Christian news agency reported late Monday, September 13. Compass news...

Christians Determined Not to be Driven Away by Attacks

September 14, 2004 — (KRT) - Gewargis Radif is adamant that he won't be defeated by insurgents targeting Christians in Iraq . So on Monday - Holy Cross Day for his Assyrian Orthodox sect...

Police Release 10 Evangelical Pastors

September 13, 2004 — (Compass) - Ten evangelical pastors and elders of Iran s Assemblies of God Church arrested four days ago were released on Sunday, quite late in the night, an Iranian source...

Religious Freedom Crackdown on Christians

September 10, 2004 — (Forum 18) - In the third known set of raids on religious communities in August, police interrogated and threatened members of a Baptist church in the western town of Balkanabad...