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The Association of Protestant Churches in Turkey has called for a day of prayer for Turkey to be held this Saturday, 18 April. The hope is that this will become an annual event in honour of the three Christians who were martyred in Malatya by Muslims. “On 18 April 2007, Necati Aydin, Tillman Geske and [...]
A candidate running for the pro-Hindutva Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in upcoming elections in India has been charged with hate speech following an incendiary address in which he attacked Christianity and defamed Christians. The speech was given near the Kandhamal district of Orissa state, which has been rocked by anti-Christian mob violence that began last [...]
The Coptic Orthodox Church of Egypt has for the first time issued a certificate of conversion to a Muslim-born Christian. Maher al-Gohari, who is seeking to change his religion on his official documents from Muslim to Christian was asked by a court to provide a conversion certificate from the Egyptian church. […] It is only [...]
Human rights activist Dania Avallone was seriously injured in Rome last October while participating in a peaceful protest at an Eritrean festival when rocks and bottles were thrown at her. Now, some Eritreans living in Italy have charged Ms Avallone with “disruption”. She is to appear in court next week. Maria Daniela (Dania) Avallone is [...]
In some countries, Christians risk their lives just for publicly naming the name of Jesus. They are secret believers, and they need our prayers. Remember the persecuted. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSYc7VpMlxQ[/youtube] Easter for Secret Believers Our Father in heaven, may your family of believers around the world unite this weekend and glorify the risen Lord. Whether we are [...]
The April issue of The Voice of the Martyrs (Canada) Newsletter has an answer to the headline question. (Text not online, so no link.) In India in the last five years, more Christians have been beaten or killed and more houses and churches burned than in all other countries of the world combined. What has [...]
Muslim-born Christian convert Maher Mu’Tasim—whose Christian name is now Peter Athanasius—has sued to force Egyptian authorities officially to recognise the change of religion for himself and his 14-year-old daughter Dina (at right). During a court session in February, a state lawyer made the ludicrous claim that Christianity mandates killing of apostates. Last week in court, [...]
The Evangelical Fellowship of Canada (EFC) recently published a report on the plight of Christians in India. Hindus and Christians have lived in a tense relationship since independence in 1947, but those tensions exploded into widespread open violence in the state of Orissa in August 2008, which the report calls a “tipping point”. Christians were [...]
In a follow-up to this story, Marzieh Amirizadeh Esmaeilabad (30) and Maryam Rustampoor (27), the two Christian women recently arrested by Iranian security agents, have now been in custody for 28 days and are reportedly suffering poor health. Assist News Service has received a press release from Elam Ministries about their condition. “They are in [...]
Controversial Dalit activist Udit Raj points out that widespread persecution of Christians by Hindu extremists began around 1998, when the BJP came to power. Mr Raj argues that the real reason for hatred of Christians is not conversion, but the threat that Christianity presents to Hindu social beliefs and traditions. What worries the Sangh Parivar [...]
Speaking at the Fourth National Persecution Meet in Karnataka, India, Archbishop Emeritus of Bangalore Dr Ignatius Paul Pinto, contradicted oft-repeated claims by Hindu fanatics that Christians bribe or coerce people into professing Christ. He expressed the community’s dismay and shock that persecution had arisen in India – a land known for its tolerant spirit. But [...]
The Hindu political party BJP has nominated for elective office a man now in police custody and accused of leading anti-Christian mob violence in Orissa state, India, that began last August. Manoj Pradhan is the prime accused in last year’s ethno-communal riots in Kandhmal and currently behind bars. But that hasn’t stopped BJP from giving [...]
Farsi Christian News Network (FCNN) reports that two Iranian Christian women were arrested and imprisoned earlier this month solely because of their faith. On March 5th 2009, two Iranian Christian women, Miss Marzieh Amirizadeh Esmaeilabad (30), and Miss Maryam Rustampoor (27), were arrested by the Iranian security forces. Their only crime is that they are [...]
Dr Michael Nazir-Ali, one of the Church of England’s most outspoken leaders, has unexpectedly announced his retirement as Bishop of Rochester, effective 1 September. He will turn 60 in August and could have remained in office for another ten years. Instead, he now plans to minister to Christians in Muslim-majority nations who face harassment and [...]
Canon Andrew White, vicar of St. George’s, Baghdad, the only Anglican church in Iraq, says Iraqi Christians are still being killed and forced into exile. He does not condemn the invasion of Iraq and is glad Saddam was deposed, but the situation today is disastrous for non-Muslims. I look around our church and most of [...]
