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Archive for November, 2008
Pakistani ‘blasphemer’ arrested
By Sheraz Khurram Khan
Special Correspondent for ASSIST News Service in Pakistan
TOBA TEK SINGH, PAKISTAN (ANS) – Police on November 17, 2008 arrested a Pakistani Christian man, who fled to safety after he was named in the police First Information Report (FIR) in April last year as a alleged blasphemer.
Authorities Target Baptist Churches in Lipetsk, Russia
By Jeremy Reynalds
Correspondent for ASSIST News Service
LIPETSK, RUSSIA (ANS) – In what they believe is targeted state action against them, two Baptist congregations in the regional center of Lipetsk (approximately 400km south-east of Moscow) have lost their legal status and a third has lost its rented prayer house.
Russia to Liquidate fifty-six religious organizations including several Western ministries
By Dan Wooding
Founder of ASSIST Ministries
SALEM, OREGON ANS — A Youth with a Mission leader has delivered a bombshell to Western missionary organization working in Russia: You may be ‘liquidated’
20,000 Muslims Attack a Church in Cairo, Trapping a Thousand Christian Worshippers Inside
By Michael Ireland
Chief Correspondent, ASSIST News Service
CAIRO, EGYPT (ANS) — One thousand Christians were today trapped inside the Coptic Orthodox Church of the Virgin Mary in West Ain Shams, Cairo, after more than twenty thousand Muslims attacked them with stones and butane gas cylinders. The Church’s priest, Father Antonious, said the situation is “extremely dangerous.”
Pastor Beaten and Abducted
Madhya Pradesh, India – A Gospel for Asia native missionary serving as a pastor in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh has been beaten and abducted and is still missing.
GFA leaders in the state report that Pastor N. Chauhan was attacked by a mob of 40 anti-Christian extremists on Monday, beaten severely and then dragged into the forest. Attempts to contact him have failed, and no word of his fate has been received.
When a GFA leader tried to call Pastor Chauhan on his mobile phone, a voice answered, saying, “The same thing is going to happen to you!”
The GFA state leader and other pastors have reported the incident to police, who have promised to take the matter seriously.
The leaders are asking for prayer that God will protect Pastor Chauhan, and that He will give wisdom to all who are handling the situation.