Fourteen months after they were arrested for their Christian faith and activities, Maryam Rostampour and Marzieh Amirizadeh have been acquitted of all charges by the Iranian judicial authorities. However, they were warned that any future Christian activity in Iran will be seriously dealt with.
Today, Saturday May 22, 2010, they left Iran and arrived safely in >>>Continue reading >>>
By Michael Ireland, Chief Correspondent, ASSIST News Service
TEHRAN, IRAN (ANS) — Two Christian converts from Islam, who were originally charged with anti-government activities and held in Tehran’s notorious Evin Prison for more than six months, will go on trial, Tuesday, April 13.
The Jubilee Campaign (www.jubileecampaign.org ) says Maryam and Marzieh were conditionally released in >>>Continue reading >>>
By Dan Wooding, Founder of ASSIST Ministries
LAHORE, PAKISTAN ANS — Two Christians in Gojra, Pakistan who allegedly fired warning shots as an Islamist mob approached which eventually resulted in seven Christians being burned to death on Aug. 1 have told Compass Direct News www.compassdirect.org that they were tortured after police arrested them.
By Dan Wooding and Sheraz Khurram Khan, Special to ASSIST News Service
TOBA TEK SINGH, GOJRA, PAKISTAN (ANS) – In a shocking display of violence in Pakistan, Islamists set ablaze some 60 Christian houses in Korian village in Toba Tek Singh district on Thursday, July 30, 2009, at 9:00 pm Pakistan time after a blasphemy accusation >>>Continue reading >>>
Compass Direct News reports:
NAIROBI, Kenya, – Islamic extremists have beheaded two young boys in Somalia because their Christian father refused to divulge information about a church leader, and the killers are searching Kenya’s refugee camps to do the same to the boys’ father.