Pakistan Police Torture Christians Arrested in Islamic Attack

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. Read the rest of this entry »

60 Christian houses in Pakistan reduced to ashes by chemical bombs over blasphemy accusation

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 was leveled against a young Christian boy, Imran Masih, and his father Talib Masih. Read the rest of this entry »

Islamist Behead Sons of Christian Leader

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. Read the rest of this entry »

Taliban Extorts Protection ‘Tax’ from Christians in Swat Valley

By Dan Wooding, Founder of ASSIST Ministries

SWAT VALLEY, PAKISTAN – International Christian Concern ICC has learned that hundreds of religious minorities, including Sikhs and Christians, fled Swat Valley because the Taliban had imposed the “jizya tax” required by Islamic law on religious minorities. Read the rest of this entry »

Kenyan Pastor Beaten at Somaliland Border

Compass Direct News reports:

NAIROBI, Kenya – A pastor trying to visit Somalia’s autonomous, self-declared state of Somaliland earlier this year discovered just how hostile the separatist region can be to Christians.

A convert from Islam, Abdi Welli Ahmed is an East Africa Pentecostal Church pastor from Kenya who in February tried to visit and encourage Christians, an invisibly tiny minority, in the religiously intolerant region of Somaliland. Read the rest of this entry »