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Remember those in prison as if you were their fellow prisoners, and those who are mistreated as if you yourselves were suffering. - (Hebrews 13:3) |
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28-Oct-2009
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Four months after their abduction, there continues to be no reliable news on the condition of the remaining six expatriate Christians kidnapped in mid-June by unknown assailants in Yemen [ More] |
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27-Oct-2009
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The frequency does not matter so much as the fact that, when these events occur, they too often occur with impunity. Increasingly, Egypt is not a safe country to be a Christian or, for that matter, any religious minority," Rubin said. [ More] |
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26-Oct-2009
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Kazakhstan-born Baptist Viktor Leven, who holds German citizenship, will be deported if a Kazakh court upholds a decision punishing him for "unregistered missionary activity", [ More] |
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25-Oct-2009
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Second-year high school student Chen Le stated emphatically, "I would rather be forced out of school, than deny my faith." On October 20, 2009, the High School Division of the Huashan Middle School officially expelled Chen for signing a document confirming his identity as a Christian. [ More] |
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20-Oct-2009
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Inside the cell, the officers wasted no time in shoving him to the ground and interrogating him: "Why are you here?!" Pastor Bike expressed his desire to visit his brothers and sisters in Linfen City [ More] |
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18-Oct-2009
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PSB officials offered to release ten Linfen-Fushan Church leaders from their detention, under the condition of holding Pastor Yang Rongli until further notice. Protesting her continued detention in an act of solidarity, the church leaders refused to leave without Pastor Yang. [ More] |
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16-Oct-2009
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Osman Nour Hassan was arrested on Aug. 3 for allegedly providing Christian literature in Pepsi village, on the outskirts of the breakaway region’s capital city, Hargeisa. [ More] |
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16-Oct-2009
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After three prosecution witnesses testified yesterday that they didn’t even know two Christians on trial for “insulting Turkishness and Islam,” a defense lawyer called the trial a “scandal.” [ More] |
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15-Oct-2009
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Several parents – named as victims in the indictment against three Baptist Union leaders now on trial in Tashkent – have told the court that statements that their children were taught the Baptist faith against their wishes were fabricated or dictated by Investigator Anatoli Tadjibayev [ More] |
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13-Oct-2009
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Two churches in the greater Jakarta area have received bomb threats. In East Jakarta, the pastor of a Batak Protestant Christian Church (Huria Kristen Batak Protestan, or HKBP) on Bogor Street received a threatening phone call before Sunday services on Oct. 4. [ More] |
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