Pakistani Christian Beaten for Refusing to Convert to Islam

By Dan Wooding, ASSIST Ministries

KALLUR KOT, PAKISTAN (ANS) — Compass Direct News (CDN) is reporting that the four older Muslim brothers of a 26-year-old Christian beat him unconscious in Kallur Kot town, Pakistan, earlier this month because he refused their enticements to convert to Islam.

The CDN story says that Riaz Masih, whose Christian parents died when he was a boy, said his continual refusal to convert infuriated his siblings and the Muslim cleric who raised them, Moulvi Peer Akram-Ullah. Read the rest of this entry »

Pakistani Muslims Allegedly Poison Christian Employees to Death

GUJRANWALA, PAKISTAN (ANS) — Muslim employers of three Christian sanitation workers at a banquet/wedding hall allegedly poisoned the three workers yesterday, killing two of them. At press time the third was struggling for life in intensive care.

According to a story by Compass Direct News, the father of the three workers, Yousaf Masih, said the owner of the hall, along with the manager, poisoned his sons because they were Christians who had asked for wages owed to them. Read the rest of this entry »

China Sentences House Church Pastors to Prison

Open Doors reports that five pastors arrested without a warrant in China’s Shanxi Province as they were on their way to file a complaint over the demolition of their church building, have been sentenced to prison terms of three to seven years. Read the rest of this entry »

Islamic Extremists Kill Somali Church Leader

By Jeremy Reynalds, Correspondent for ASSIST News Service

WASHINGTON, D.C.  – A human rights group has learned that members of al-Shabab a Somali Islamic extremist group have killed yet another leader of an underground church in the Somalia capital of Mogadishu. Read the rest of this entry »

Christian Arrested by Egyptian Security for Praying At Home

By Jeremy Reynalds
Correspondent for ASSIST News Service

EGYPT ANS – Egyptian State Security recently arrested a Christian Copt in the village of Deir Samalout, Samalout, Minia province, for praying “without a license.” Read the rest of this entry »