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ASSIST News Service (ANS) - PO Box 2126, Garden Grove, CA 92842-2126 USA
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Friday, April 29, 2005

PAKISTANI CHRISTIAN BEATEN ALMOST TO DEATH BECAUSE MUSLIM BOSS WAS KIND TO HIM

By Michael Ireland
Chief Correspondent, ASSIST News Service

PAKISTAN (ANS) -- A Pakistani Christian who was shown kindness by his Muslim employer has been attacked and beaten by a gang of Muslims.

Shahbaz Masih was attacked by a group of seven or eight Muslims from his village on April 23 and left for dead, with both legs broken, says a report from the Barnabas Fund.

In an e-mail report from Barnabas Fund, the Christian human rights organization says Masih's assailants are believed to be jealous of any success within the Christian community, and apparently singled him out because he was favorably treated by his Muslim boss.

Shahbaz Masih lives in a predominantly Muslim village called Chak No. 2 Mandi Baha-Uddin, south of the Pakistani capital Islamabad.

Barnabas Fund says there are some 20-25 Christian families in the village who mostly work as agricultural laborers for Muslim landowners. Shahbaz, a young man in his twenties, was a tractor driver for Mir Hussein, who treated him kindly, apparently because he was an honest and hard worker.

The Barnabas Fund report continues: "This kindness from a Muslim to a Christian caused resentment amongst the Muslim group who attacked Shahbaz last Saturday, reports a local church leader, who adds the group were also angered by two Christians doing well in their studies at school and university recently. According to one report the group had tried to force Shahbaz to convert to Islam. He is now in a critical condition in hospital."

According to Barnabas Fund, many Muslims in Pakistan regard Christians as second-class citizens, “unclean,” and despicable. There are approximately three million Christians in Pakistan, about 2 percent of the population.

Barnabas Fund works to support Christian communities mainly, but not exclusively, in the Islamic world where they are facing poverty and persecution.
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Barnabas Fund’s e-mail news service provides the media and its supporters with urgent news briefs concerning suffering Christians around the world.

Further details, quotes and photos on this and other stories may be available for news editors on request.

Barnabas Fund, The Old Rectory, River Street, PEWSEY, Wiltshire, SN9 5DB, UK. Tel: +44(0)1672 564938, Fax: +44(0)1672 565030, E-mail: info@barnabasfund.org. Web: www.barnabasfund.org
** Michael Ireland is an international British freelance journalist. A former reporter with a London newspaper, Michael is the Chief Correspondent for ASSIST News Service of Garden Grove, CA. Michael immigrated to the United States in 1982 and became a US citizen in Sept., 1995. He is married with two children. Michael has also been a frequent contributor to UCB Europe, a British Christian radio station.
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"N.Korea May Carry Out Nuclear Test by June-Kyodo(preparation since March,plutonium device)"
Kyodo News ^ | 04/30/05

Posted on 04/29/2005 11:11:00 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster

"N.Korea May Carry Out Nuclear Test by June - Kyodo"

Fri Apr 29,10:13 PM ET

ARTICLE SNIPPET: "TOKYO (Reuters) - The United States has warned the International Atomic Energy Agency that North Korea has been preparing to carry out an underground nuclear test since March and could go ahead as early as June, Kyodo news agency said on Saturday.

The report, which quoted diplomatic sources in Vienna, came a day after the chief U.S. negotiator to stalled talks on Pyongyang's nuclear ambitions said Washington believed North Korea might be trying to harvest material for a nuclear bomb from a shut-down reactor.

According to the sources, who said the information was obtained by satellite photos and from within North Korea, Pyongyang was preparing to test a small-scale plutonium device.

The United States had called on China to urge North Korea to halt its preparations, but there were no signs that Beijing had done so, the sources said.

Japanese officials were unavailable for comment."

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"Gallows for seven in American Center attack"
The Times of India ^ | THURSDAY, APRIL 28, 2005 01:16:48 AM | TIMES NEWS NETWORK

Posted on 04/30/2005 2:39:04 AM PDT by Cronos

ARTICLE SNIPPET: "KOLKATA (Calcutta): A city court on Wednesday handed out death penalty to Dubai-based underworld don Aftab Ansari and six others for the attack outside the American Center here that left five policemen dead five years ago.

The acting chief judge of the civil and sessions court, Basudeb Majumdar, on Tuesday found the group of seven — Ansari, Rehan Alam, Adil Hassan, Hasrat Alam, Shakil Akhtar, Musharat Hussain and Jamaluddin Nasser — guilty of using banned and sophisticated arms to kill. This is a crime under Section 27 (C) of the Arms Act and can only draw the death sentence. Public prosecutor Nabakumar Ghosh said another charge — sedition — almost always fetched capital punishment."