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Pastor attacked and arrested on false charges of conversion in Andhra Pradesh, India
By James Varghese, Special Correspondent for ASSIST News Service in India ANDHRA PRADESH, INDIA - Hindu radicals attacked a pastor and reported him for distributing Christian literature in Hyderabad in Andhra Pradesh State, India, on Saturday, June 6. … Read entire article »
Filed under: Assist News Service, Christian, HIndu, India, Persecution
Tribal Church Shut Down by Police in Karnataka, India
By James Varghese, Special Correspondent in India for ANS KARNATAKA, INDIA ANS — A newly built Indian Apostolic church was forcefully locked up by police in a village called Chennagiri, Davanagere District in Karnataka state, India, on Sunday, June 7, 2009. … Read entire article »
Filed under: Assist News Service, Christian, HIndu, India, Persecution
Muslim Forces 12 Year-Old Girl to Convert then Marry Him
Compass Direct News reports from Pakistan that: The Christian mother of a 12-year-old girl in Punjab Province who was kidnapped, coerced into converting to Islam and forcibly married to a 37-year-old Muslim hopes to recover her daughter at a court hearing next week. The reaction of Pakistani law enforcement authorities to Sajida Masih’s complaint so far – ridiculing her and asserting that there is nothing she can do because her daughter is now a Muslim – does not encourage her hopes of recovering her daughter Huma at next Thursday’s June 11 hearing. Masih said that Muhammad Imran abducted Huma at gunpoint on Feb. 23 from Hanif Kot village in Gujranwala district, forcibly converted her and then married her. Imran has since disappeared along with his first wife, three children and new child-bride. Read the … Read entire article »
Filed under: Christian, Compass Direct, Muslim, Pakistan
Five Christian Converts from Islam Arrested by Iranian Security Officers
By Michael Ireland, Chief Correspondent, ASSIST News Service WASHINGTON, DC – Iranian security forces on May 21 raided an underground house church and arrested five Christian converts from Islam in the city of Karaji, Iran. According to International Christian Concern (ICC), citing the Farsi Christian News Network (FCNN), plainclothes security officers handcuffed and took the five Christians to an unknown location. The officers also confiscated several Bibles. Mr. Javad Abtahi, the leader of the church, is among the detained Christians. … Read entire article »
Filed under: Assist News Service, Christian, Iran, Muslim, Persecution
Evangelists Beaten by Muslim Villagers in Bangladesh
Compass Direct News reports Nearly four months after Muslim villagers furiously beat two evangelists for showing the “Jesus Film,” one of the Christians is still receiving treatment for nerve damage to his hip. … Read entire article »
Filed under: Bangladesh, Christian, Compass Direct, Muslim, Persecution
