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Video – Persecution in Vietnam
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. … Read entire article »
Filed under: Christian, Persecution, Release International, Vietnam
Pastor Shot in Bomb Attack on Church
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 pastor, Vinod Kumar, in Baraw village in the Nasriganj area of Rohtas district, and then take his own life. “However,” Mandal said, “believers caught him before he could do more damage or kill himself.” The 35-year-old pastor was taken to a hospital in nearby Varanasi, in the neighboring state of Uttar Pradesh and at press time was out of danger of losing his life, according to a leader of Gospel Echoing Missionary Society GEMS who requested anonymity. Full … Read entire article »
Filed under: Christian, Compass Direct, India
Libya Tortures Four Christian Converts from Islam
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. … Read entire article »
Filed under: Assist News Service, Christian, Libya, Muslim, Persecution
One Dead, 16 Injured in Muslim attack on church
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 of his friends and family members in indiscriminate attacks aimed at the Christian community in Sangu-Wali, village, near Aroop town in Gujranwala district, reported advocacy group Sharing Life Ministries Pakistan SLMP. Groups of between five and 15 Muslims arriving from different directions attacked the church and area homes, said Sohail Johnson, head of SLMP. During the violence, 45-year-old Shakeela Bibi sustained bamboo rod blows to the head and died before reaching the hospital. “The death of my … Read entire article »
Filed under: Christian, Compass Direct, Muslim, Pakistan, Persecution
One killed, 11 injured in Pakistan Church attack by gunmen
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 11 others injured. … Read entire article »
Filed under: Assist News Service, Christian, Muslim, Pakistan, Persecution, Religion
