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• Indonesian Pastor Battling Order to Demolish Home - Worthy News Officials in Cipayung district, East Jakarta, have ordered Pastor Chris Ambessa of the Protestant Church of Indonesia to dismantle the newly constructed second floor of his home and to cease all religious activity in the area. Added: 07.24.2008 17:31 • Eritrea: Christian Woman in Prison Dies of Malaria - Worthy News Imprisoned and tortured for her Christian faith since December, 37-year-old Azib Simon died of malaria in Eritrea’s Wi'a Military Training Center last week. Added: 07.24.2008 04:51 • Belarus Fined Christian For Bible Study Group - Worthy News A Christian in Belarus has been fined the equivalent of nine months minimum wage salary for attempting to organise an informal Bible study and discussion group, Christian rights investigators said Wednesday, July 23. Added: 07.23.2008 14:56 • Iran: Tortured Christian Flees - Worthy News Days after his release from a month of interrogations and severe torture under secret police custody, Iranian Christian Mohsen Namvar has fled across the border into Turkey with his family. Added: 07.23.2008 06:16 • China House Church Leader "Homeless" After Meeting US Congress Delegation - Worthy News One of China's most respected house church leaders remained homeless Sunday, July 20, with his wife after authorities expelled them from their home in the Chinese capital Beijing for meeting an American Congressional delegation, officials and a rights group said. Added: 07.21.2008 04:14 • Messianic leaders say Hebrew tablet validates Jesus' claims - Worthy News Israeli Jewish believers in Jesus say the recently publicized Hebrew tablet describing the death and resurrection of a messianic figure challenges centuries of teachings by rabbinic Judaism that the redemptive process of Jesus was a departure from biblical Jewish understanding, according to a story carried on www.israeltoday.co.il Added: 07.21.2008 03:31 • India: State Admits Few Complaints of 'Forced' Conversions - Worthy News The Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party government in Gujarat state has disclosed that there were only three complaints of alleged "forcible" conversions in the state in the last 10 years, and only two of those concerned Christian conversions. Added: 07.18.2008 03:14 • Turkey Authorities "Supported" Murders Of Christians, Trial Observers Claim - Worthy News There was concern Wednesday, July 16, that Turkish authorities were involved in last year's murder of three evangelical Christians at a Christian publishing house in the city of Malatya. Added: 07.17.2008 01:57 • Spike in Attacks against Egyptian Coptic Christians - Worthy News The Washington-DC based human rights group, International Christian Concern (ICC) www.persecution.org has learned that a recent increase in attacks against Egypt’s Coptic Christians has prompted various Christian groups to organize demonstrations condemning fanatic Muslims engaging in these attacks and the officials of the Egyptian government who have failed to protect Christians against such attacks. Added: 07.16.2008 04:11 • Muslim Mob Attack Protestant Church In Pakistan - Worthy News A tense calm returned Tuesday, July 15, to the outskirts of Pakistan's largest city, Karachi, after several Christians, including a pastor, were injured when Muslim militants stormed a Protestant church during a prayer service, officials told BosNewsLife. Added: 07.16.2008 04:08 • Bush Condemns Religious Rights Abuses In Iran, Eritrea, Sudan and China - Worthy News United States President George W. Bush on Monday, July 14, condemned Iran, Eritrea, Sudan, North Korea, Uzbekistan, Saudi Arabia and China for violations of religious rights, saying thousands of people are suffering and "languish in the nation's" jails, but noted some progress in Communist-run Vietnam. Added: 07.15.2008 05:55 • Protestant Christian Faces 15 Years Prison In Uzbekistan - Worthy News A Protestant Christian leader in Uzbekistan faces up to 15 years in prison on charges that include teaching religion without official approval and encouraging people to read "prohibited Christian literature," a major religious rights group said Monday, July 14. Added: 07.15.2008 05:54 | |
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