Christian Personal Checks

Saudi Arabia Arrests Christian Blogger for Conversion Publicity

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.

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

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.

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Christian Convert Arrested in Saudi Arabia

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.

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

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.

Thieves Rape Girl When They Realize Victim is Christian

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 >>>Continue reading >>>