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  • Family of Abducted Christian Coptic Teenager Assaulted By Muslim Mob

    06/13/2009 1:09:01 PM PDT · by knighthawk · 14 replies · 1,453+ views
    AINA ^ | June 09 2008 | Mary Abdelmassih
    Cairo (AINA) -- In another incident of abduction and forced Islamization of Coptic minor girls, 16-year old Nermeen Mitry was abducted by a Muslim man to coerce her into converting to Islam. She was successfully recovered on the same day by her family, who did their own investigation and search to locate her. Nermeen was abducted from El-Mahalla by Muslim Hossam Hamouda in conspiracy with his aunt Leila Attia; she was hidden away by a third person called Nasser Abu Deif from Assuit in Upper Egypt, at the home of one of his female relatives called Rasha Soliman in Zagazig....
  • Christian Man Raped, Murdered for Refusing to Convert to Islam

    06/13/2009 7:47:57 AM PDT · by Oldeconomybuyer · 33 replies · 1,675+ views
    FOX News ^ | June 13, 2009 | By Nora Zimmett
    A young Christian man was raped and brutally murdered in Pakistan for refusing to convert to Islam, and police are doing nothing about it, the victim's brother and minister told FOXNews.com. Pakistani police reportedly found the body of Tariq "Litto" Mashi Ghauri — a 28-year-old university student in Sargodha, Pakistan — lying dead in a canal outside a rural village in Punjab Province on May 15. He had been raped and stabbed at least five times. "They have sexually abuse him, torture him with a knife on his testicle and genitals," Ghauri's brother, 24-year-old Salman Nabil Ghauri, said. "They have...
  • Pakistan: Muslims tell Christians to convert to Islam, pay the jizya, or die

    06/12/2009 1:21:47 PM PDT · by Cindy · 17 replies · 764+ views
    SNIPPET: ""Fight those who believe not in Allah nor the Last Day, nor hold that forbidden which hath been forbidden by Allah and His Messenger, nor acknowledge the religion of Truth, (even if they are) of the People of the Book, until they pay the Jizya with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued." -- Qur'an 9:29 "Fight in the name of Allah and in the way of Allah. Fight against those who disbelieve in Allah. Make a holy war...When you meet your enemies who are polytheists, invite them to three courses of action. If they respond to any one of...
  • Pakistan: Christian Man raped and murdered for refusing Islam

    06/09/2009 12:44:30 PM PDT · by Cindy · 25 replies · 1,369+ views
    (AINA) via JIHAD WATCH.org ^ | Posted by Raymond at June 9, 2009 6:47 AM | n/a
    SNIPPET: "The next day Shazia's three brothers arrived at Litto's house, where they demanded that Litto convert to Islam and marry their sister. Litto said he would marry her, but that he would not convert to Islam. This infuriated the brothers, who kidnapped him at gunpoint and threw him into their car. Ghauri immediately reported to the police what had happened. In response, the officer on duty said, "How dare you Choohra (derogatory term for Christian) cast malicious eyes on a Muslim girl." Denied help by the police, Ghauri gathered some of his relatives and searched the countryside for his...
  • Muslim Villagers Beat Evangelists in Southeastern Bangladesh

    06/02/2009 2:57:59 AM PDT · by Cindy · 3 replies · 346+ views
    ASSIST NEWS SERVICE ^ | June 1, 2009 | Jeremy Reynalds
    Note: The following text is a quote: Monday, June 1, 2009 Muslim Villagers Beat Evangelists in Southeastern Bangladesh Nearly four months later, Christian worker still suffering nerve damage By Jeremy Reynalds Correspondent for ASSIST News Service FULGAZI, BANGLADESH (ANS) -- Nearly four months after Muslim villagers in a southeastern Bangladesh sub-district violently beat two evangelists for showing the “Jesus Film,” one of them is still receiving treatment for nerve damage to his hip. According to Compass Direct News, Christian Life Bangladesh (CLB) worker Edward Biswas, 32, was admitted to Alabakth Physiotherapy Centre on May 5. Dr. Mohammad Saifuddin Julfikar told...
  • Couple Ordered to Stop Holding Bible Study at Home

    05/28/2009 12:13:14 PM PDT · by pepperdog · 264 replies · 6,997+ views
    Fox News ^ | 28 May 2009 | Unattributed
    Pastor David Jones and his wife Mary have been told that they cannot invite friends to their San Diego, Calif. home for a bible study....
  • Video Launched to Expose Torture of Christian Attorney Gao Zhisheng

    05/21/2009 2:24:58 AM PDT · by Cindy · 2 replies · 300+ views
    ASSIST NEWS SERVICE ^ | May 18, 2009 | Michael Ireland
    Note: Photo included. Note: The following text is a quote: Monday, May 18, 2009 Video Launched to Expose Torture of Christian Attorney Gao Zhisheng US Senators Call on Chinese President to Release Gao from Prison By Michael Ireland Chief Correspondent, ASSIST News Service BEIJING, CHINA / WASHINGTON, DC (ANS) -- It has been more than 100 days since Christian human rights attorney Gao Zhisheng has been seen in public. Gao Zhisheng Now two Christian groups, who work for the rights of believers in countries where they face persecution or discrimination, are working together for his release. And a group of...
  • Filipino Militants Behead Kidnapped Farmer: Police [Islamic Serpent in Garden of Civilization]

    05/17/2009 8:12:54 PM PDT · by Steelfish · 10 replies · 598+ views
    AP Report ^ | May 17th 2009
    Filipino Militants Behead Kidnapped Farmer: Police By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Published: May 17, 2009 ZAMBOANGA, Philippines (AP) -- Philippine police recovered the severed head of a farm owner kidnapped by Muslim militants and authorities said Monday he was likely beheaded because his family failed to pay ransom. Doroteo Gonzales, 61, was snatched by gunmen April 25 from his house in southern Zamboanga city and brought to nearby Basilan Island, where al-Qaida-linked Abu Sayyaf rebels are holding at least five other people in a surge of ransom kidnappings. The gunmen were believed to have links to the Abu Sayyaf, and Gonzales...
  • Egypt YouTube pig cull clip sparks outrage

    05/17/2009 10:12:20 PM PDT · by george76 · 31 replies · 925+ views
    AFP ^ | May 17, 2009
    A YouTube video clip showing pigs being culled in Egypt as part of swine flu measures has caused outrage at the apparent barbarity of the method of slaughtering the animals. The clip posted by independent newspaper Al-Masri Al-Yom includes gory images of pigs being beaten with iron bars, piglets being stabbed and animals being kicked alive into bulldozer buckets. Since going on line on YouTube this weekend, the clip has sparked horrified reactions from Muslims and from the Christian Copt community, who are the main rearers of pigs in Egypt as Muslims do not eat pork. Although no case of...
  • 'Hurling a Stone At a Mosque' Rumor Leads to Attack on Christians in Egypt

    05/15/2009 12:35:03 AM PDT · by americanophile · 10 replies · 504+ views
    Assyrian International News Agency ^ | 5-14-2009 | Mary Abdelmassih
    AINA) -- As a result of a rumor that a young Christian Copt hurled a stone towards a mosque, thousands of Muslims congregated and attacked Copts and their properties, leaving several injured and arrested. The incident, which took place on Wednesday, May 13, 2009,in the area of Saft El-Labn, Giza, resulted in the injury of 14 people from both sides. The police arrested 20 Copts, including 6 women, and 7 Muslims, and security imposed a curfew on the region. Among the Copts randomly rounded up by the police is 29-year-old Sabry Shaker, a physically handicapped man suffering from infantile paralysis....
  • Kirkuk Police Seek to Ease Ethnic Tension

    05/13/2009 5:50:42 PM PDT · by SandRat · 1 replies · 319+ views
    American Forces Press Service ^ | Pfc. Justin Naylor, USA
    KIRKUK, Iraq, May 13, 2009 – Provincial police representatives in Iraq’s Kirkuk province met May 4 with Christian leaders in Kirkuk city to address concerns about increased violence against Kirkuk's Christian minority. Only about 3 percent of Iraq's total population -- about 800,000 Iraqis -- are Christian. "Anyone that targets you, targets us also," said Maj. Gen. Turhan, the Kirkuk city deputy police chief, a Kurdish Muslim. Two attacks April 26 left three Christian residents of Kirkuk dead and two others injured, the third series of attacks targeting Christians in the city in recent months. "Our history has always coincided...
  • KIDNAPPED FIVE-YEAR-OLD IRAQI CHRISTIAN'S BODY FOUND RIDDLED WITH BULLET HOLES

    05/14/2009 2:08:50 AM PDT · by Cindy · 24 replies · 1,488+ views
    ASSIST NEWS SERVICE ^ | Wednesday, May 13, 2009 | By Michael Ireland
    Note: The following article SNIPPET is a quote: WASHINGTON, D.C. (ANS) -- The body of a kidnapped 5-year-old Christian boy was discovered riddled with gunshots in Iraq on May 11. International Christian Concern (ICC) www.persecution.org has learned that Tony Adwar Shaweel was kidnapped on March 5, 2009 by an unknown group who demanded a ransom of $50,000. ICC says the identity of Tony's kidnappers and murderers is still unknown. However, Christians in Iraq have been increasingly targeted by criminal gangs, Islamic extremists and other armed groups as part of a broader strategy to drive the Iraqi Christian population from country....
  • Two Pakistani Christians injured in April 22 firing die

    04/29/2009 7:32:49 PM PDT · by Cindy · 5 replies · 253+ views
    ASSIST NEWS SERVICE ^ | Wednesday, April 29, 2009 | By Dan Wooding and Sheraz Khurram Khan
    Note: Photos included. Wednesday, April 29, 2009 Two Pakistani Christians injured in April 22 firing die Fundamentalist Islamists torched houses, desecrated Bibles and manhandled Christians By Dan Wooding and Sheraz Khurram Khan Special to ASSIST News Service KARACHI, PAKISTAN (ANS) -- Two Christian teenager boys, who had received gunshot wounds from police’s alleged firing on April 22 amid protest of Christians against chalking of church wall with slogans commending Taliban have died from their injuries, ANS has learnt. The deceased have been identified as Imran Masih, 13 and Intikhab Masih, 18. Former Member of Provincial Assembly Sindh, Michael Javaid told...
  • Pakistan: 11-Year-Old Boy Dies After Being Attacked During Taliban Assault on Christian Compound

    04/29/2009 7:02:30 PM PDT · by Liam2007 · 11 replies · 529+ views
    Irfan Masih, the 11-year-old boy wounded on 22 April during a Taliban attack against Christians in Tiasar Town near Karachi, has died. In critical conditions from the start, the boy slipped away after five, agonisingly long days. Fr Emmanuel Yousaf Mani, the director of the National Commission for Justice and Peace (NCJP), led a delegation to the site of the attack. The group, made up of clergymen and lay people, visited the wounded in hospital and then met leaders of the Muttahida Quami Movement(MQM), the only Pakistani party that is opposed to the introduction of Sharia in the Swat Valley....
  • Hate Crimes Bill Passes House..No Republicans voted for it

    04/29/2009 11:33:48 AM PDT · by Victory111 · 116 replies · 5,204+ views
    The Phoenix ^ | 4-29-09 | David S. Bernstein
    The House of Representatives just passed HR 1913 -- The Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2009 -- on a vote of 234-190. The bill, which Obama has urged Congress to pass, would extend federal hate crimes laws to cover sexual orientation, gender identity, and disability, as well as race, color, religion, national origin, and sexual orientation. Not a single Republican voted in favor. 15 Democrats voted against. In the floor debate before the vote, North Carolina Republican Virginia Foxx called it a "hoax" that Matthew Shepard's killing had anything to do with him being gay. Ted Kennedy...
  • House passes hate crimes bill

    04/29/2009 3:27:28 PM PDT · by anniegetyourgun · 138 replies · 3,134+ views
    Boston.com ^ | 4/29/09
    The House this afternoon passed an expanded hate crimes bill that would protect gay victims, and its chief sponsor in the Senate called for prompt final action. The measure passed 249-175 over the objections of conservatives, the Associated Press reports.
  • Molotov Cocktail Hits Christian Mayor's Car (JERUSALEM)

    04/26/2009 3:54:03 PM PDT · by kellynla · 7 replies · 432+ views
    worldnetdaily.com ^ | April 26, 2009 | Aaron Klein
    JERUSALEM – A Molotov cocktail and gunshots targeted the car of Bethlehem's Christian mayor yesterday, as local leaders there quietly fingered Islamists for attempting to intimidate Christians in one of the most important cities for Christianity. "It's in retaliation for the Passover festivities we held two weeks ago," claimed one Bethlehem Christian leader, speaking to WND on condition of anonymity out of fear for his life. "We had very loud and public Christian displays," he said. "Now they (Islamists) want to send us a message not to get too comfortable." Mayor Victor Batarsa's car was hit while it was parked...
  • IRAN: IMPRISONED CHRISTIAN WOMEN IN PERIL - A Call to Pray for Iran

    04/26/2009 1:36:13 AM PDT · by Cindy · 8 replies · 605+ views
    ASSIST NEWS SERVICE ^ | April 22, 2009 | Elizabeth Kendal
    Note: The following text is a quote: Wednesday, April 22, 2009 Iran: Imprisoned Christian women in peril - a call to pray for Iran By Elizabeth Kendal Religious Liberty Prayer Bulletin (RLPB) 001 Special to ASSIST News Service AUSTRALIA (ANS) -- Maryam Rostampour (27) and Marzieh Amirizadeh Esmaeilabad (30) share an apartment and are active members of Iran's Christian community. On 5 March one of the women attended a summons at the Ministry of Intelligence. Officers then took her back to her apartment, arrested both women and confiscated their computers, books, Bibles and other personal items. According to International Christian...
  • Taliban Excecutes 2 Christians

    04/25/2009 12:23:24 PM PDT · by docbnj · 17 replies · 778+ views
    WorldNetDaily ^ | 25 Apr 2009 | anonymous
    Taliban Islamic radicals have attacked a community of Christians, executing two of them following a rally that protested Muslim graffiti in their neighborhood that ordered them to accept Islam or die, according to an international Christian organization. The attack in Pakistan follows only by days an expansion of the territory occupied by the Islamic Taliban members. The report from International Christian Concern said it happened in Taseer Town in Karachi. The organization, which reaches out to persecuted Christians around the world, said it was told by Asif Stephen, a Christian politician, that the Christians protesting the Islamic slogans say: "We...
  • Pakistan: Karachi churches vandalized with "Long live the Taliban," "Long live Islam,"...

    04/24/2009 4:31:38 AM PDT · by Cindy · 7 replies · 581+ views
    Pakistan: Karachi churches vandalized with "Long live the Taliban," "Long live Islam," and "Christians, convert to Islam" Karachi (AsiaNews) – SNIPPET: "Fr Pervez Khalid, assistant parish priest at St Jude’s Parish Church, told AsiaNews that no one was killed in the attack but that six people had gunshot wounds. The situation is now under control, he added. Rangers and police and were patrolling the streets. Still people are very scared and dare not go out, especially after police advised them to stay in-door. Father D’Souza, parish priest at St Jude’s, visited the area where the attack took place. There, he...
  • Al-Qaeda-linked gunmen kill 2 Filipino farmers

    04/14/2009 3:19:43 AM PDT · by Cindy · 2 replies · 451+ views
    (AP) via YNET NEWS.com ^ | 04.13.09, 11:27 / Israel News | n/a
    Al-Qaeda-linked militants have killed two farmers, one of whom they kidnapped during an attack on a Christian village in the southern Philippines, officials said Monday.
  • Pakistan: Muslim men who gang-raped a 13 year-old Christian girl are declared "innocent"

    04/11/2009 9:20:18 PM PDT · by Cindy · 26 replies · 1,152+ views
    Pakistan: Muslim men who gang-raped a 13 year-old Christian girl are declared "innocent" "[D]espite eye witness accounts and medical evidence indicating their guilt." Considering that according to sharia, Christian testimony is worth half that of Muslim testimony, obviously such eye-witness accounts must have fallen on deaf ears. "Pakistan: Suspects in rape of Christian girl cleared," from Compass Direct News, April 10: Police in Muslim-majority nation suspected of corruption. ISTANBUL, April 10 (Compass Direct News) – Police have declared three Pakistani men innocent of raping a 13-year-old Christian girl despite eye witness accounts and medical evidence indicating their guilt. At a...
  • Travel Warning: Sudan

    04/09/2009 4:57:19 PM PDT · by Cindy · 6 replies · 470+ views
    OSAC ^ | n/a
    Note: The following text is a quote: https://www.osac.gov/Reports/report.cfm?contentID=100131 YOU ARE HERE: Home > Reports > Consular Affairs Bulletins > Report Travel Warning: Sudan CONSULAR AFFAIRS BULLETINS Sub-Saharan Africa - Sudan 8 Apr 2009 Printer Friendly Email Article RELATED REPORTS Today SOUTHERN SUDAN STABILITY CONCERNS 24 Mar 2009 SUDAN 2009 CRIME & SAFETY REPORT: KHARTOUM 24 Mar 2009 SUDAN 2009 CRIME & SAFETY REPORT: JUBA 9 Mar 2009 TRAVEL WARNING: SUDAN 4 Mar 2009 WARDEN MESSAGE: SUDAN DEMONSTRATIONS The U.S. Department of State issued the following Travel Warning on April 8: The Department of State warns U.S. citizens of the risks...
  • Extremists Try to Murder Missionary; Attack Well-Drilling Team

    04/06/2009 12:42:43 AM PDT · by Cindy · 29 replies · 801+ views
    ASSIST NEWS SERVICE ^ | April 3, 2009 | (GOSPEL FOR ASIA) via ASSIST NEWS SERVICE
    Note: The following text is a quote: http://www.assistnews.net/Stories/2009/s09040025.htm Friday, April 3, 2009 Extremists Try to Murder Missionary; Attack Well-Drilling Team Gospel for Asia For Immediate Release ASIA (ANS) -- A mob of anti-Christian extremists tried to murder a Gospel for Asia-supported missionary working at a Jesus Well drilling site on Tuesday. The pastor escaped unharmed, but they badly beat a ministry intern and one of the men drilling the well. Jesus Wells are tangible evidence of God's love for the people of Asia. The incident occurred Tuesday when the well-drilling team arrived in the village where missionary Bala Nunwate serves....
  • Culture Wars : UK: Christian minister beaten up to silence his views of Islam on his TV show

    03/25/2009 10:22:07 PM PDT · by ReformationFan · 6 replies · 511+ views
    Virtue Online ^ | March 15, 2009 | James Cohen
    A Christian minister who has had heated arguments with Muslims on his TV Gospel show has been brutally attacked by three men who ripped off his cross and warned: 'If you go back to the studio, we'll break your legs.' The Reverend Noble Samuel was driving to the studio when a car pulled over in front of him. A man got out and came over to ask him directions in Urdu. Mr Samuel, based at Heston United Reformed Church, West London, said: 'He put his hand into my window, which was half open, and grabbed my hair and opened the...
  • Greece: Iranian group threatens to murder ex-Muslim Christian pastors

    03/21/2009 12:56:36 AM PDT · by Cindy · 12 replies · 1,363+ views
    March 20, 2009 SNIPPET: ""Whoever changed his Islamic religion, then kill him" -- Muhammad" SNIPPET: "An Iranian Muslim extremists group identifying themselves as “Hezbollah” sent a letter to three Iranian pastors with a Muslim background threatening them to return to Islam or else risk being murdered. The radical group calls itself “The Hezbollah Party, Army of the World’s Imam” and accused the pastors of being spies for foreign powers, according to Farsi Christian News Network (FCNN). The extremists demanded the Iranian pastors denounce their faith in Christ and return to Islam. In the letter delivered to the Iranian pastors on...
  • Indonesia Update

    03/07/2009 3:40:30 AM PST · by Cindy · 19 replies · 1,098+ views
    COUNTERTERRORISM BLOG.org ^ | March 6, 2009 09:48 AM | By Kenneth Conboy
    Indonesia Update In a South Jakarta courtroom this week, a Singaporean terror suspect admitted that he was part of a plot to hijack an Aeroflot aircraft from Bangkok and crash it into Singapore’s Changi International Airport. Mohammad Hasan bin Sayanudin, alias Fajar Taslim, was testifying against two other terrorist suspects. All three are charged with killing a Christian high school teacher in South Sumatra province during 2007. They are also charged with plotting to kill two Catholic priests in 2005 and to carry out a bombing of a café in West Sumatra. According to Sayanudin, those who were part of...
  • Charges Filed against Pakistani Kidnappers of Young Sisters

    03/01/2009 1:54:43 AM PST · by Cindy · 9 replies · 726+ views
    ASSIST NEWS SERVICE ^ | February 27, 2009 | Jeremy Reynalds
    Note: The following text is a quote: http://www.assistnews.net/Stories/2009/s09020175.htm Friday, February 27, 2009 Charges Filed against Pakistani Kidnappers of Young Sisters Police ignore arrest order, but lawyers hopeful 13-year-old can be returned to parents By Jeremy Reynalds Correspondent for ASSIST News Service ISTANBUL (ANS) -- After months of legal deadlock, lawyers in Pakistan said they have new hope they can restore to her family a 13-year-old Christian girl who was kidnaped and forced to marry a Muslim. According to a story by Compass Direct News, Saba Masih might be returned to her family, the lawyers said, if they can legally maneuver...
  • Clinton under fire for softening human rights stand with China

    02/26/2009 3:04:43 PM PST · by Tailgunner Joe · 5 replies · 293+ views
    christianexaminer.com ^ | February 26, 2009
    WASHINGTON, D.C. — On her first trip to China as Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton downplayed the Asia giant's human rights record and instead emphasized concerns over global warming and the world economy. Virginia Republican Congressman Frank R. Wolf has drafted a stinging letter to Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton chiding her for diminishing the importance of human rights when dealing with China. Clinton, while stopping in Seoul, South Korea as part of a four-country tour to Asia, told reporters Feb. 20 that other issues were more pressing than human rights. “Successive administrations and Chinese governments have been poised...
  • Christian milkman murdered by Muslim employers

    02/19/2009 3:10:26 AM PST · by Cindy · 14 replies · 872+ views
    CHRISTIAN TODAY.com ^ | Posted: Wednesday, February 18, 2009, 10:34 (GMT) | by Daniel Blake
    SNIPPET: "With the need to support his family becoming more urgent, Ashraf returned on 1 February and again demanded his wages. The three Muslims reportedly responded angrily to Ashraf's request, saying, “You are Esai [a derogatory term for Christians] and you demanded your pay from Muslims, what courage you have. We will finish you right now. Then go to your Esa [Christ], He will give you everything.” The three men then killed Ashraf and fled the scene."
  • Tenn. church shooter pleads guilty, gets life

    02/15/2009 6:18:30 PM PST · by LuxMaker · 24 replies · 843+ views
    google.com ^ | 9 Feb, 2009 | DUNCAN MANSFIELD
    KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — An out-of-work truck driver smiled Monday as he pleaded guilty to killing two people and wounding six others at a Tennessee church last summer because he considered the liberal church "a den of un-American vipers." ">snip<"
  • 3 Teens Arrested In Attack On Fullerton Minister

    02/15/2009 4:15:39 PM PST · by BenLurkin · 23 replies · 911+ views
    cbs2 ^ | Feb 15, 2009 3:30 pm US/Pacific
    Fullerton police have arrested three boys suspected of attacking a minister and his family as they were driving to his church. The suspects were arrested shortly after the Friday night attack on Willie Holmes, president and founder of International Nondenominational Assemblies, but their arrests weren't revealed until Sunday. Each of the boys was booked on suspicion of felony vandalism, assault with a deadly weapon and being a gang member. Their names were withheld because of the their ages. Holmes had said a group of youths stepped in front of his car Friday night and began throwing rocks, bricks and bottles....
  • Valentines Day Al Shabab Style (Beheading)

    02/15/2009 3:43:31 PM PST · by Cindy · 11 replies · 966+ views
    THE JAWA REPORT ^ | February 14, 2009 | n/a
    The video below fold is a beheading by the Somali terrorist group al Shabab. The mans sin was converting to Christianity. Warning....graphic.
  • List Names Worst Persecutor of Christians

    02/08/2009 7:20:05 AM PST · by GonzoII · 10 replies · 649+ views
    CBN.COM ^ | Febraury 6, 2009 | Gary Lane
    CBNNews.com - The hermit nation of North Korea has retained its designation as the worst persecutor of Christians in the world, according to the 2008 Open Door USA "World Watch List." The country, headed up by dictator Kim Jong Il, is perhaps one of the most isolated nations and worst oppressors of its own people. Click the player to watch the Christian World News report followed by an interview with CBN News Gary Lane about the Open Door USA list.
  • Christian Legal Center supports Baptist Christian nurse suspended for prayer offer

    02/04/2009 3:20:36 AM PST · by Cindy · 8 replies · 382+ views
    ASSIST NEWS SERVICE ^ | Monday, February 2, 2009 | Michael Ireland
    Note: The following SNIPPET is a quote: http://www.assistnews.net/Stories/2009/s09020008.htm Monday, February 2, 2009 Christian Legal Center supports Baptist Christian nurse suspended for prayer offer By Michael Ireland Chief Correspondent, ASSIST News Service SOMERSET, UNITED KINGDOM (ANS) -- A Christian nurse from western England has been suspended from her work for offering to pray for an elderly patient. Caroline Petrie, a community nurse and devout Christian, is facing dismissal for an alleged breach of her code of conduct on equality and diversity in her work in Weston-super-Mare, near Bristol, Somerset, in England's West Country, according to the Christian Legal Center. Mrs Petrie,...
  • Pakistani Muslim mob demands death for Christian activist accused of 'blasphemy'

    02/01/2009 12:47:46 AM PST · by Cindy · 12 replies · 706+ views
    ASSIST NEWS SERVICE ^ | January 30, 2009 | By Dan Wooding and Sheraz Khurram Khan
    Note: The following text is a quote: http://www.assistnews.net/Stories/2009/s09010196.htm Friday, January 30, 2009 Pakistani Muslim mob demands death for Christian activist accused of ‘blasphemy’ By Dan Wooding and Sheraz Khurram Khan Special to ASSIST News Service RAWALPINDI, PAKISTAN (ANS) -- In an apparent attempt to influence court proceedings, a huge Muslim mob gathered outside a court in Rawalpindi on Friday, January 30, as it heard the case of Hector Aleem, a Christian activist, who was arrested on January 22 under Pakistan’s most abused blasphemy laws. Muslim protesters shouted slogans against Hector Aleem and demanded that the accused be given death sentence....
  • Muslim Thieves Rape Girl When They Realize Victim is Christian

    01/28/2009 10:53:13 AM PST · by forkinsocket · 33 replies · 2,211+ views
    AINA ^ | 1-27-2009 | Staff
    The Washington-DC based human rights group, International Christian Concern (ICC) www.persecution.org has just learned that six unidentified men went on a robbing spree in a rural village in Pakistan on the night of January 10, and when they realized that one of the households they were robbing was Christian, they gang-raped a 14-year-old girl in front of her parents to violate their faith. The six criminals, armed with guns, forced their way into two Muslim houses and three Christian homes, physically assaulted the residents, and took cash, TVs, cell phones and other valuables. After robbing the homes, the six men...
  • Egyptian Judge Tells of Desire to Kill Christian convert

    01/27/2009 2:50:20 PM PST · by Cindy · 11 replies · 471+ views
    ASSIST NEWS SERVICE ^ | January 27, 2009 | Jeremy Reynalds
    Note: The following text is a quote: http://www.assistnews.net/Stories/2009/s09010177.htm Tuesday, January 27, 2009 Egyptian Judge Tells of Desire to Kill Christian convert Bail granted to convert from Islam barred from legally changing religious ID By Jeremy Reynalds Correspondent for ASSIST News Service ISTANBUL (ANS) -- After her arrest at Cairo’s airport on Dec. 13 while attempting to flee anti-Christian hostilities in Egypt, convert Martha Samuel Makkar was granted bail on Jan. 24, but not before a judge took her aside and said he would like to kill her, according to her lawyer. According to a story published by Compass Direct News,...
  • Thieves Rape Girl When They Realize Victim is Christian

    01/27/2009 2:18:23 AM PST · by Cindy · 13 replies · 1,130+ views
    ASSIST NEWS SERVICE ^ | Monday, January 26, 2009 | By Dan Wooding
    PUNJAB PROVINCE, PAKISTAN (ANS) -- The Washington-DC based human rights group, International Christian Concern (ICC) ---www.persecution.org -- says that it has just learned that six unidentified men went on a robbing spree in a rural village in Pakistan on the night of January 10, and when they realized that one of the households they were robbing was Christian, they gang-raped a 14-year-old girl in front of her parents to violate their faith. “The six criminals, armed with guns, forced their way into two Muslim houses and three Christian homes, physically assaulted the residents, and took cash, TVs, cell phones and...
  • Pakistani Christians Acquitted in "Blasphemy" Case

    01/24/2009 10:22:40 PM PST · by Cindy · 461+ views
    ASSIST NEWS SERVICE ^ | Friday, January 23, 2009 | Jeremy Reynalds
    Note: The following text is a quote: http://www.assistnews.net/Stories/2009/s09010164.htm Friday, January 23, 2009 Pakistani Christians Acquitted in "Blasphemy" Case Religious reconciliation meetings produce first such acquittal as imams issue fatwa By Jeremy Reynalds Correspondent for ASSIST News Service ISTANBUL (ANS) -- Five Christians charged with “blasphemy” against Islam during April 2007 religious holidays were released on Jan. 19 after reconciliation meetings between Christian and Islamic leaders – the first verdict to have resulted from such efforts in Pakistan. According to a story by Compass Direct News, a Punjab court released Salamat Masih, 42, his 16-year-old son Rashid, and their relatives Ishfaq,...
  • Christian Deaths Mount in Eritrean Prisons

    01/22/2009 1:55:04 AM PST · by Cindy · 4 replies · 390+ views
    ASSIST NEWS SERVICE ^ | January 21, 2009 | Jeremy Reynalds
    Note: The following text is a quote: http://www.assistnews.net/Stories/2009/s09010155.htm Wednesday, January 21, 2009 Christian Deaths Mount in Eritrean Prisons Three more believers die in military confinement centers in past four months By Jeremy Reynalds Correspondent for ASSIST News Service LOS ANGELES (ANS) -- Three Christians incarcerated in military prisons for their faith have died in the past four months in Eritrea, including the Jan. 16 death of a 42-year-old man in solitary confinement, according to a Christian support organization. Compass News reported sources told Open Doors that Mehari Gebreneguse Asgedom died at the Mitire Military Confinement center from torture, and complications...
  • Muslims drive Christian grandparents from home

    01/16/2009 1:51:34 AM PST · by Cindy · 6 replies · 386+ views
    COMPASS DIRECT NEWS via ONE NEWS NOW.com ^ | 1/15/2009 7:30:00 AM | n/a
    DHAKA, Bangladesh – Muslims in a village in western Bangladesh have forced two brothers to expel their parents from their home for converting to Christianity. Ishmael Sheikh, 70, and his wife Rahima Khatun, 55, were baptized on Nov. 9. By the end of the month, Sheikh told Compass, Muslim neighbors in Kathuly village, near Gangni town in Meherpur district, had compelled their two sons to expel them from their house. The ailing Sheikh told Compass that his two sons had come under tremendous pressure from neighbors in the village, which was entirely Muslim before the coupled received Christ. The neighbors...
  • Islamists attack two Churches in Pakistan

    01/04/2009 2:59:17 PM PST · by Cindy · 8 replies · 596+ views
    ASSIST NEWS SERVICE ^ | Sunday, January 4, 2009 | Dan Wooding and Sheraz Khurram Khan
    Note: The following text is a quote: http://www.assistnews.net/Stories/2009/s09010020.htm Sunday, January 4, 2009 Islamists attack two Churches in Pakistan By Dan Wooding and Sheraz Khurram Khan Special report KARACHI, PAKISTAN (ANS) -- Islamist fundamentalists in the Pakistani city of Karachi in the Pakistani province of Sindh attacked two churches on the eve of New Year. Unidentified militants forcibly entered in Christ Awami Church located in Rasool Shah Colony on New Year night. They told the congregants to stop worshiping in the church, and when they put up resistance, the militants desecrated Bibles, a cross on the wall, as well as hymn...
  • British missionaries in Gambia jailed for one year with hard labour for sedition

    12/30/2008 12:05:50 PM PST · by nickcarraway · 7 replies · 650+ views
    The Telegraph ^ | 30 Dec 2008
    A British couple working as Christian missionaries in Gambia have been jailed for one year with hard labour for sending emails that were critical of the Muslim state. David Fulton, 60, a former Army major, and his wife, Fiona, 46, pleaded guilty to making seditious comments "with intent to bring hatred or contempt against the president or the government". Their sentence, in a country which has one of west Africa's worst human rights records, sparked concern after reports that other prisoners on similar charges have been poisoned while in jail. The couple, originally from Torquay in Devon, have spent 12...
  • Ugandan LRA 'in church massacre' (Catholic women and children slaughtered)

    12/30/2008 6:03:51 AM PST · by NYer · 9 replies · 832+ views
    BBC ^ | December 29, 2008
    Uganda's army has accused the Lord's Resistance Army rebels of hacking to death 45 civilians in a Catholic church in the Democratic Republic of Congo.Capt Chris Magezi said the scene was "horrendous... dead bodies of mostly women and children cut in pieces". The attack happened on 26 December. A rebel spokesman has denied responsibility for the killings, which follow a collapse in the peace process. The UN says at least 189 people were killed in several attacks last week. Some reports say more than 100 people were killed in the church alone. The armies of Uganda, South Sudan and DR...
  • Chinese Government Launches Attacks Against Christians During Christmas Season

    12/25/2008 11:49:45 PM PST · by Cindy · 10 replies · 497+ views
    ASSIST NEWS SERVICE ^ | December 25, 2008 | Dan Wooding
    Note: The following text is a quote: Thursday, December 25, 2008 Chinese Government Launches Attacks Against Christians During Christmas Season By Dan Wooding Founder of ASSIST Ministries CHINA (ANS) -- ChinaAid has reported to ANS that the Chinese government has targeted Christians in Henan province, Anhui province, and Xinjiang Autonomous Region between December 21 and December 24. A ChinaAid spokesperson said that on Christmas Eve in Henan province, nine Christian women were arrested during a nativity play and are still being held by police. In Anhui province on December 22, officials arrested 19 students and two house church leaders and...
  • Officials Allow Muslims to Demolish 30 Christian Homes for Stable

    12/20/2008 10:45:51 PM PST · by Cindy · 12 replies · 755+ views
    ASSIST NEWS SERVICE ^ | Friday, December 19, 2008 | Jeremy Reynalds, Correspondent for ASSIST NEWS SERVICE
    WASHINGTON D.C. (ANS) -- A human rights group is reporting that a powerful Muslim village elder and his nephews evicted about 30 impoverished Christian families from their homes in order to make way for a stable for their livestock. In a news release, the Washington-DC based International Christian Concern (ICC) said that while the stable will keep the Muslims' animals warm and dry, these 30 Christian families are now homeless in their village of Kotla Punjubaig in Sheikhupura district near Lahore, Pakistan. In an interview with ICC, a local Christian elder of Kotla Punjubaig, Boota Masih, said, “This land was...
  • Egyptian Convert to Christianity Tortured, Raped in Egypt

    12/20/2008 10:39:36 PM PST · by Cindy · 11 replies · 1,014+ views
    ASSIST NEWS SERVICE ^ | Friday, December 19, 2008 | Jeremy Reynalds, Correspondent for ASSIST NEWS SERVICE
    CAIRO, EGYPT (ANS) -- Martha Samuel, an Egyptian Muslim who converted to Christianity five years ago, was arrested at Cairo airport on Wednesday as she, her husband and two sons (four and two years old) were leaving for Russia. Her name was on a list of people prohibited from leaving the country. According to a story by the Assyrian International News Agency (AINA), the Egypt for Christ Ministry is reporting that Martha Samuel has been sexually assaulted by Egyptian police officers at El-Nozha police station as well as at the National Security office in Heliopolis. AINA said Samuel has also...
  • Palin Church Fire Sparks Debate

    12/16/2008 3:51:30 PM PST · by curth · 16 replies · 1,012+ views
    The Bulletin ^ | Tuesday, December 16, 2008 | Joe Murray
    Sarah Palin’s church was badly damaged by a fire the authorities are treating as an act of arson. The fire, which comes after a heated presidential campaign where Mrs. Palin’s church was ridiculed by major media outlets, has some Christian activists contending secular intolerance and bigotry directed toward Christians remains a serious problem in America. “It’s a scare tactic,” proclaimed Bishop Janice Hollis, pastor of Progressive Believers Ministry. “It is a ploy to make Christians more docile and timid, less likely to fight for their rights.” While it is unclear whether or not the fire at Mrs. Palin’s church was...
  • Azerbaijan Demolishes Priceless Medieval Christian Monuments And Western Nations Yawn

    12/15/2008 5:07:35 AM PST · by theothercheek · 9 replies · 366+ views
    The Stiletto Blog ^ | December 15, 2008 | The Stiletto
    Three years ago this week, Azerbaijani soldiers entered a medieval Christian Armenian cemetary and smashed the intricately carved six-foot tall headstones - no two alike - into bits and threw them into a nearby river. Not only Christian graves were desecrated, but a priceless archeological treasure was lost to humankind. So what did George ("We are not at war with Islam") Bush do? Nothing - as usual. The Europeans passed a "resolution" that "condemned" cultural genocide. Bottom line: The Muslims - who are at war with Infidels, make no mistake - got away with it. Please read more at: Azerbaijan...