THE violence Sunday came on the first day of the Muslim Eid al-Adha festival, and just days after the government of President Bashar al-Assad agreed to an Arab League peace plan in which the government promised to end its crackdown against the uprising.
A recent attack on Christians and church buildings by Burmese soldiers in Kachin state showed that Christian civilians are targeted in the military offensive against insurgents.
A 12-year-old Christian girl was kidnapped and repeatedly raped for eight months in Pakistan by a man who then falsified marriage documents with her, it was claimed today.
According to the eye witnesses, Shahbaz Taseer was going towards his company office ‘World Call’ located at 103C2 Gulberg Lahore, at around 10:54 am today when he was intercepted by armed men and kidnapped.
BIBLE translation throughout Oceana remains a high strategic priority with underlying challenges. Using national translators streamlines the process of Bible translation in a region that sometimes deals with hostility toward Christians.
IN a rare move in Pakistan, a lower court in Punjab Province on Tuesday (Aug. 2) released on bail a young Christian man accused of blaspheming Islam.
Shouwang Church, a large, illegal house church in Beijing, is enduring its 11th week of government persecution over its repeated attempts to hold outdoor worship services in a public square. The government pressured the church out of its rented building.
KAMRAN Micheal the Provincial minister for the Human Rights also holds the additional portfolio of finance ministry after PML-N ( Pakistan Muslim league Nawaz group) broke its coalition with PPP in the Punjab Assembly.
AS members of Shouwang Church continue to stand against Beijing police and the Chinese government, members of other churches are showing solidarity with the illegal congregation — to the point of getting arrested, too.
FIVE years after it abolished Hinduism as the state religion, Nepal is working on a new criminal code forbidding a person from one faith to “convert a person or abet him to change his religion.”
