From Release Internatinal, this special report from Vietnam, filmed on location. It features interviews with two wives whose husbands have been tortured and jailed for calling for freedom of worship and the return of land seized by the authorities. An ex-prisoner also paints a picture of brutality and overcoming faith behind bars.
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Compass Direct News reports: In an effort to stop conversions to Christianity in the east Indian state of Bihar, a 25-year-old ailing man on Sunday March 8 exploded a crude bomb in a church and shot the pastor. Police Inspector Hari Krishna Mandal told Compass that the attacker, Rajesh Singh, had come fully prepared to kill the >>>Continue reading >>> By Dan Wooding, Founder of ASSIST Ministries WASHINGTON, DC (ANS) — International Christian Concern (ICC), a Christian human rights group, says it has learned that Libyan intelligence officials have detained and tortured four Christians for converting from Islam adding that the Christians have been imprisoned for the past seven weeks in Tripoli, Libya’s capital. Compass Direct News reports that Gun and club attacks on a Presbyterian church and neighboring homes in the predominantly Christian area of a village in Pakistan last week killed one woman and left 16 people wounded. Seeking revenge for a robbery complaint that a Christian filed against him, local Muslim Waseem Butt on March 2 led groups >>>Continue reading >>> By Dan Wooding and Sheraz Khurram Khan, Special to ASSIST News Service GUJRANWALA, PAKISTAN – As violence continues to spiral out of control in Pakistan, ANS has received news that indiscriminate firing by a group of Muslim men on congregants of a Presbyterian church in Gujranwala district on Monday, March 2, left a woman dead and >>>Continue reading >>> |
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