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Kenyan Pastor Beaten at Somaliland Border
Compass Direct News reports: NAIROBI, Kenya – A pastor trying to visit Somalia’s autonomous, self-declared state of Somaliland earlier this year discovered just how hostile the separatist region can be to Christians. A convert from Islam, Abdi Welli Ahmed is an East Africa Pentecostal Church pastor from Kenya who in February tried to visit and encourage Christians, an invisibly tiny minority, in the religiously intolerant region of Somaliland. … Read entire article »
Filed under: Christian, Compass Direct, Islam, Persecution, Somalia
How Christians are being persecuted in North Korea
By Success Kanayo Uchime, Special to ASSIST News Service NORTH KOREA – It’s very disheartening to note the level of persecution of Christian in North Korea, even in the hands of the government officials who’re supposed to protect them in accordance with the country’s constitutions. … Read entire article »
Filed under: Assist News Service, Christian, Open Doors, Persecution
Christians attacked, Pastor and four year old injured in Maharastra State, India
By Jacob Philip, Assist News Service MUMBAI, INDIA – A group of Hindu radicals stormed into a Christian prayer meeting held at a private Hall in a place called Vasi, a Mumbai suburb, on Tuesday and attacked the attendees leaving a child injured. … Read entire article »
Filed under: Assist News Service, Christian, HIndu, India, Persecution
Lawyer Threatens to Kill Christian Charged with Blasphemy
Compass Direct News reports: ISTANBUL – A Pakistani Christian charged with abetting blasphemy against Islam was denied bail for his own safety last week after an Islamist lawyer allegedly threatened his life in a court hearing. Hector Aleem, 51, remains in Adiyala Jail in Rawalpindi, near Pakistan’s capital of Islamabad. Judge Mustafa Tanveer dismissed his bail application at a court session on Thursday April 30. “If the judge does not punish Aleem according to the law, then [we] will kill him ourselves,” said Tariq Dhamal, an attorney for the unnamed complainant, according to a report by the Centre for Legal Aid Assistance and Settlement CLAAS. Police arrested Aleem last November when a Muslim scholar received a text message insulting the Islamic prophet Muhammad. Authorities charged Aleem with blasphemy and abetting blasphemy, sections 295c and … Read entire article »
Filed under: Christian, Compass Direct, Pakistan, Persecution
Mayor Revokes Church Permit
Compass Direct News reports: JAKARTA, Indonesia – Church members in Depok city, West Java, are unable to use their church building after the mayor, citing protests from area Muslims, revoked a permit issued in 1998. Under a Joint Ministerial Decree SKB issued in 1969 and revised in 2006, all religious groups in Indonesia must apply for permits to establish and operate places of worship. Read the full story at Compass Direct News … Read entire article »
Filed under: Christian, Compass Direct, Indonesia, Muslim, Persecution
