South China Church Leaders Evade Execution
Leaders of the South China Church have had their sentences reduced by the same court that tried them the first time after a retrial was ordered by the Hubei Province Supreme Court.
Month: July 2002
Former Taliban Captives Tell How They Survived Imprisonment
Former Taliban prisoners Heather Mercer and Dayna Curry told more than 1,800 attendees at the 42nd annual Minnesota Prayer Breakfast how they coped with their three-month incarceration in an Afghan jail.
Christians Attacked and Killed by Islamic Fanatics in Nigeria
Christians in the Plateau State of central Nigeria have been killed and forced from their land by extremist Islamic militants.
Papuan Christians Fear Onslaught in Indonesia
Christians in the Indonesian province of Papua (Irian Jaya) are fearful that a violent campaign could be unleashed against them later this year as Laskar Jihad Islamic militants continue to flood into the province with the apparent collusion of the authorities.
Christians Fear Imposition of Islamic Law In Malaysia
1 July 2002
Moderate Muslims, women’s groups, Christians and other non-Muslim minorities have all reacted with horror to plans by Muslim opposition party PAS to impose full Islamic Shari’ah law in Malaysia’s Terengganu State.