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Converts Ordered to Stop Christian Activities
Compass Direct News reports: Declaring three Iranian Christians guilty of cooperating with “anti-government movements,” a court in Shiraz on March 10 ordered the converts to discontinue Christian activities and stop propagating their faith. An Islamic Revolutionary Court judge handed an eight-month suspended prison sentence with a five-year probation to Seyed Allaedin Hussein, Homayoon Shokouhi, and Seyed Amir Hussein Bob-Annari. The judge said he would enforce their prison sentence and try them as “apostates,” or those who leave Islam, if they violate terms of their probation – including a ban on contacting one another. A new penal code under consideration by the Iranian Parliament includes a bill that would require the death penalty for apostasy. “The warning that they will be ‘arrested and tried as apostates’ if they continue their Christian activities is quite chilling,” … Read entire article »
Filed under: Christian, Compass Direct, Iran, Islam, Persecution
Police Destroy Church Building in Laos Village
Compass Direct News reports Police in Borikhamxay province, Laos, on March 19 destroyed a church building in Nonsomboon village while Christian residents attended a meeting called by district officials. A member of the provincial religious affairs department, identified only as Bounlerm, has since claimed that police destroyed the worship facility because it was built without official approval. Tension between the Christians and local authorities escalated last year when officials ordered at least 40 Christian families living in Ban Mai village to relocate some 20 kilometers 12 miles to Nonsomboon for “administrative reasons,” according to advocacy group Human Rights Watch for Lao Religious Freedom HRWLRF. Local sources said the forced relocation to Nonsomboon village was an effort to control the activities of Christians in Ban Mai who were sharing their faith with other people … Read entire article »
Filed under: Christian, Compass Direct, Laos, Persecution
American being held in Ho Chi Minh City for sharing the Gospel of Jesus – Again
By Dan Wooding, Founder of ASSIST Ministries HO CHI MINH CITY, VIETNAM ANS — A close friend of Dr. Paul Ai Tran, a much persecuted Vietnamese Christian leader whom the communist authorities grew so frustrated with because of his prolific church planting efforts that they deported him from Vietnam in 1999 to the United States, has told ANS that Tran is being held under “city” arrest in Ho Chi Minh City, formerly known as Saigon. … Read entire article »
Filed under: Assist News Service, Christian, Persecution, Vietnam
Christian TV host attacked in London in ‘faith hate’ crime
By Dan Wooding, Founder of ASSIST Ministries LONDON, UK ANS — A London-based Christian minister and TV show host has been attacked by Muslims in what police are calling a “faith hate” crime. … Read entire article »
Filed under: Assist News Service, Christian, England, Muslim, Persecution
Mob Brutally Attacks Missionaries
A large mob of anti-Christian extremists brutally attacked two Gospel for Asia-supported missionaries on Saturday, March 14. After stripping them naked and beating Murari Jay and Atul Rajesh, the vicious group burned all their belongings, and then had the missionaries arrested. … Read entire article »
Filed under: Christian, Gospel for Asia, India, Persecution
