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Embattled Indonesian Church Services Disrupted Again
By Dan Wooding BOGOR, WEST JAVA, INDONESIA (ANS) – A crowd of Muslim hard-liners disrupted about 100 members of the embattled GKI Yasmin congregation as they held divine services at a member’s home in Bogor, West Java, on Sunday. “We were conducting our worship at one member’s home before people from Forkami and Garis came to our place,” GKI Yasmin spokeswoman Dwiati Novita Rini told The Jakarta Post (www.thejakartapost.com) over the telephone on Sunday. Dwiati said she did … Read entire article »
Filed under: Assist News Service, Christian, Indonesia, Persecution
Muslims in Egypt Attack Church, Burn Christian Homes and Shops
By Michael Ireland, ASSIST News Service CAIRO, EGYPT (ANS) – A Muslim mob yesterday (Jan.19) attacked Copts in the Upper Egyptian village of Rahmaniya-Kebly, Nag Hammadi, Qena province, destroying and torching their homes, straw huts and shops, while chanting Allahu Akbar. Mary Abdelmassih, an Egyptian journalist writing for the Assyrian International News Agency (AINA) — www.aina.org — says no one was reported killed or injured. According to reports, security forces were present but did not intervene … Read entire article »
Filed under: Assist News Service, Christian, Egypt, Muslim, Persecution
Police Beat, Arrest Evangelist in Sudan
KHARTOUM, Sudan (Compass Direct News) – Police this week beat and arrested a church leader in Khartoum, sources told Compass. Evangelist James Kat of the Evangelical Church of Sudan was arrested on Tuesday morning (Jan. 17), with officers beating him as they took him to a North Division police station, the sources said. He was released on bail the same day. Police detained Kat, who lives at the church site, apparently because he was using the place … Read entire article »
Filed under: Christian, Compass Direct, Muslim, Persecution, Sudan
Sudan Threatens to Arrest Church Leaders
Christians subject to stricter controls, religious freedom violations. KHARTOUM, Sudan (Compass Direct News) – Sudan’s Ministry of Guidance and Religious Endowments has threatened to arrest church leaders if they carry out evangelistic activities and do not comply with an order for churches to provide their names and contact information, Christian sources said. The warning in a Jan. 3 letter to church leaders of the Sudan Presbyterian Evangelical Church (SPEC) arrived a few days after Sudan President Omar … Read entire article »
Filed under: Christian, Compass Direct, Muslim, Persecution, Sudan
Four Christians Killed by Islamist Group Boko Haram in Nigeria – Villages Threatened
Nigeria (Chrisitan Solidarity Worldwide) – Gunmen from the Islamist group Boko Haram gunmen yesterday shot dead four Igbo Christian men in Potiskum town in Yobe State, and threatened to launch an attack on two nearby villages later that evening. The four men were reportedly shot in a vehicle as they were migrating southwards to rejoin their families, who had already moved to that area to escape the violence. Previous attempts to join them had been … Read entire article »
Filed under: Christian, Christian Solidarity Worldwide, Islam, Nigeria
