Christian Personal Checks

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 >>>Continue reading >>>