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Christians Taken Captive by Buddhist Monks
Compass Direct News reports: DHAKA, Bangladesh – Buddhist clerics and local council officials are holding 13 newly converted Christians captive in a pagoda in a southeastern mountainous district of Bangladesh in an attempt to forcibly return them to Buddhism. A spokesman for the Parbatta Adivasi (Hill Tract) Christian Church told Compass on condition of anonymity that “the plight of the Christians is horrifying.” Local government council officials in Jorachuri sub-district in Rangamati district, some 300 kilometers (186 miles) southeast of Dhaka, are helping the Buddhist monks to hold the Christians against their will, he said. “The 13 tribal Christians were taken forcefully to a pagoda on Dec. 10 to accept Buddhism against their will,” he said. “They will be kept in a pagoda for 10 days to perform the rituals to be Buddhists – … Read entire article »
Filed under: Bangladesh, Buddhism, Christian, Compass Direct, Persecution
Christian Family Beaten, Cut and Face Charges
Compass Direct News reports: MALUMGHAT, Bangladesh – The harassment that Bangladeshi converts from Islam face from Muslim neighbors in this southeastern area near Cox’s Bazar can take serious turns – as it did last month, when an attack by about a dozen Muslims left a Christian family with machete wounds. … Read entire article »
Filed under: Bangladesh, Christian, Muslim, Persecution
Christian’s Life Threatened For Converting from Islam
Compass Direct News reports: DHAKA, Bangladesh\(Compass Direct News) – Muslim clerics and neighbors have ordered the father of a man who converted to Catholicism to remain confined to his house until retaliatory punishment can be exacted from the convert. “Are you not ashamed that your son became Christian?” the founder of a mosque here asked Ruhul Amin Khandaker, father of a 32-year-old businessman who went to Australia earlier this year to court a Philippine Catholic woman, converting to her faith in April. “Why did you not sacrifice your son like cattle before telling the news to us?” Khandaker has become a social outcast whose family lives under threat from fellow Muslims, in violation of Bangladesh’s constitution and international human rights safeguards. His son, Rashidul Amin Khandaker, has applied for protection from Australian … Read entire article »
Filed under: Bangladesh, Christian, Compass Direct, Islam, Muslim, Persecution
Muslims Threaten to Kill Pastor to Keep Church Out of Village
Compass Direct News reports from Bangladesh DHAKA, Bangladesh – Muslim fundamentalists in a village 192 kilometers (119) miles north of the capital have threatened to kill a pastor as part of an effort to keep his church from constructing a church building, according to the head of the Isha-e-Jamat Bangladesh Jesus’ Church denomination. Abdul Mabud Chowdhury, chairman of the Dhaka-based denomination, said the Muslims are trying to wrest land from the congregation in Lokmanpur village, Gaibandha district. The church planned to erect a worship building on the land, which the denomination purchased in January. “We enclosed the land with a brick wall after buying it from a believer,” Chowdhury said. “The local Muslims came to know that there would be a church inside the enclosure, so they demolished the boundary wall in … Read entire article »
Filed under: Bangladesh, Christian, Compass Direct, Muslim, Persecution
Christian Mother and Daughter Gang-Raped by Muslims in Bangladesh
By Jeremy Reynalds Correspondent for ASSIST News Service WASHINGTON D.C. ANS — A Christian mother and her teenage daughter have been gang- raped by three Muslim men at their home in Uttar Som, Bangladesh. Washington-DC based human rights group, International Christian Concern ICC reported in a news release that the attack on Shima D. Silva, and her 14-year-old daughter, Bituni, resulted in the death of the teen’s death a few days after the attack According to ICC, earlier this year, three Muslim men began harassing Bituni on her way to St. Mary’s High school in Toomilia. When Bitunis mother discovered this, she filed a report with the local Kaliganj Police Station. ICC said that for the report to be verified, it was necessary for the officer in charge at the police station to sign it. … Read entire article »
Filed under: Assist News Service, Bangladesh, Christian, Muslim, Persecution
