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Outdoor worship and arrests resume as Chinese authorities again deny facility to Shouwang Church
By Sarah Page DUBLIN (Compass Direct News) – Authorities in China again thwarted efforts by Shouwang Church to lease a worship facility at the year’s end, and the Beijing congregation again met outdoors on Sunday (Jan. 1) – resulting in the arrest of 48 members, sources said. “The church tried three times to rent three different venues, but it was all to no avail because of the authorities’ intervention,” a source close to the church told Compass. … Read entire article »
Filed under: China, Christian, Compass Direct, Persecution
Lao Officials Force Christians to Recant their Faith before allowing a Burial
Separately in Boukham village, authorities move Christians to animal pen. By Sarah Page DUBLIN, December 30 – Officials this week forced Christians in a Lao village to give up their faith in order to bury a family member in the village graveyard, according to advocacy group Human Rights Watch for Lao Religious Freedom (HRWLRF). In Huey, Ad-Sapangthong district of Savannakhet Province, where immediate burial is essential in the hot tropical climate, the village’s eight Christian families quickly began … Read entire article »
Filed under: Buddhism, Christian, Compass Direct, Laos, Persecution
Christian Charged with ‘Blasphemy’ after Argument over Rent
By Murad Khan LAHORE, Pakistan (Compass Direct News) – A young man has been charged with desecrating the Quran under Pakistan’s controversial “blasphemy” laws after the Christian had an argument over rent with his Muslim landlord, his attorneys said. Police in Shahdara Town, near Lahore, arrested Khuram Masih, 23, on Dec. 5 and charged him under Section 295-B after his landlord, Zulfiqar Ali, accused him of burning pages of the Quran in order to prepare tea, the … Read entire article »
Filed under: Christian, Compass Direct, Muslim, Pakistan, Persecution
Five Christians Slain in Another Assault in Kaduna, Nigeria
By Obed Minchakpu UNGWAN RAMI, Nigeria (Compass Direct News) – Local Islamists and Muslim Fulani herdsmen attacked a Christian community in Kaduna state on Monday (Dec. 19), killing five people and wounding six, area sources said, just nine days after a deadly attack on a Christian community in Kukum Gida in the same local government area. The Muslim assailants, brandishing firearms and machetes, attacked Christians in Ungwan Rami village of Kaura Local Government Area at 10 p.m. … Read entire article »
Filed under: Compass Direct, Islam, Muslim, Nigeria, Persecution
Village officials in Laos threaten to evict entire church from village unless they give up their faith
By Sarah Page DUBLIN (Compass Direct News) – Nearly 50 Christians await their fate today after officials in Natoo village, southern Laos, on Wednesday (Dec. 21) summoned four of their leaders and warned that they would evict the entire church “within 24 hours” if they refused to give up their faith. Officials told the Christians they had forfeited their right to live in the village because of their faith, the advocacy group Human Rights Watch for Lao … Read entire article »
Filed under: Christian, Compass Direct, Laos, Persecution
