Vietnamese Authorities Raid House Churches and Threaten Attendees

Compass Direct News reports

HANOI – Local authorities in Vietnam have balked at registering house churches, contributing to a recent uptick in sometimes violent harassment of congregations.

Four police officers and two government officials broke up the Sunday morning worship service of a house church in Tran Phu Commune in Hanoi on July 26, announcing that it was illegal to worship and teach religion. The police chief of Tran Phu Commune in greater Hanoi, Dang Dinh Toi, had ordered the raid.

When Christians under the leadership of Pastor Dang Thi Dinh refused to sign a document admitting they were meeting illegally, an angry police officer shouted, “If I find you meeting here next Sunday, I will kill you all like I’d kill a dog”

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Police Torture Pastor and Two Others in Bangladesh

Compass Direct News reports

DHAKA, Bangladesh – At the urging of local Muslim leaders, police in western Bangladesh have tortured a pastor and two other Christians for legally proclaiming Christ.

Habibur Rahman, 45, pastor of Boalia Spiritual Church Boalia Ruhani Jamat in Boalia in Cuadanga district, 220 kilometers 136 miles west of Dhaka, said he was about to meet with 11 others for a monthly meeting on evangelism at 8 p.m. on June 8 when local police stormed in and seized him and Zahid Hassan, 25, and a 40-year-old Christian identified only as Fazlur. Read the rest of this entry »

Christian Murdered by Muslim who had ‘decided he would Kill a Christian’

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ISTANBUL – On a crowded street here last week a German businessman died after a Turk with a history of mental problems stabbed him for being a Christian. Read the rest of this entry »

Christian Shot and Killed After Converting from Islam

Compass Direct News reports

AIROBI, Kenya – Muslim extremists early this morning killed a Christian convert in Mahadday Weyne, Somalia, 100 kilometers 62 miles north of Mogadishu.

Al Shabaab Islamist rebels shot Mohammed Sheikh Abdiraman to death at 7 a.m., eyewitnesses told Compass. They said the Islamic extremists appeared to have been hunting the convert from Islam, and when they found him they did not hesitate to shoot him. Read the rest of this entry »

Officials Announce Ban on Christianity in Laotian Village

Compass Direct News reports:

Following the confiscation of livestock from Christian families earlier this month, officials in a village in Laos on Saturday July 11 called a special meeting for all residents and announced that they had “banned the Christian faith in our village.” Read the rest of this entry »