Archive for January, 2009

Saudi Arabia Arrests Christian Blogger for Conversion Publicity

January 31st, 2009

By Michael Ireland
Chief Correspondent, ASSIST News Service

SAUDI ARABIA (ANS) — Authorities in Saudi Arabia have detained a 28-year-old blogger, Hamoud Bin Saleh, for publicly writing about his conversion from Islam to Christianity on his website.

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Pakistani Muslim mob demands death for Christian activist accused of ‘blasphemy’

January 31st, 2009

By Dan Wooding and Sheraz Khurram Khan

RAWALPINDI, PAKISTAN – 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. A January 27 court hearing also drew angry Muslims who protested outside the court.

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Christian Convert Arrested in Saudi Arabia

January 28th, 2009

Compass Direct News reports:

Five months after the daughter of a member of Saudi Arabia’s religious police was killed for writing online about her faith in Christ, Saudi authorities have reportedly arrested a 28-year-old Christian man for describing his conversion and criticizing the kingdom’s judiciary on his Web site.

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Egyptian Judge tells Christian defendent “If I had a knife I would kill you”

January 27th, 2009

Compass Direct News reports:

Istanbul -  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 Saturday Jan. 24, but not before a judge took her aside and said he would like to kill her, according to her lawyer.

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Thieves Rape Girl When They Realize Victim is Christian

January 26th, 2009

By Dan Wooding
Founder of ASSIST Ministries

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.

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