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.
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.
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’
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.”
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 >>>Continue reading >>>