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Iranian Christian convert sentenced to one year of deprivation of education
By Michael Ireland, ASSIST News Service TEHRAN, IRAN (ANS) — In the latest approach of the Islamic Republic of Iran to oppose the growth of Christianity, a Christian convert was sentenced to one year of deprivation of education by a Revolutionary Court in Tehran. According to the Iranian Christian news agency, www.MohabatNews.com , Ms. Fatemeh Nouri, an art student in one of the universities in Tehran (the name of university is withheld for security reasons) was … Read entire article »
Filed under: Assist News Service, Christian, Iran, Persecution
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
