At least a quarter of a million civilians, including Christians, remained displaced Wednesday, May 27, in Sri Lanka following the government’s final military crackdown on independence seeking Tamil rebels, but Tamil and Sinhalese Christians said they have united to overcome the crisis and show reconciliation is possible.
Suspected Muslim militants with links to the terror groups Al Qaeda and the Taliban attacked a historic church in northwestern Pakistan and burned Bibles and other Christian books, but police are reluctant to investigate the case and detain suspects, Christians said Tuesday, May 26.
United Nations officials on Saturday, May 23, remained concerned over the situation of Burma’s political prisoners, including detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, as Christian rights investigators reported fresh evidence of”human rights violations” by the ruling military in the country.
The president of a US-based group helping Christians persecuted for their faith has expressed outrage that United States military personnel have burned confiscated Bibles in Afghanistan.
Evangelical Christians in India’s eastern state of Andhra Pradesh faced the difficult task Sunday, May 10, of rebuilding their church after suspected anti-Christian militants torched the building, the latest in a series of attacksagainst churches in the area, investigators said.
Hundreds of thousands of people, including Christians, have fled Pakistan’s Taliban-controlled Swat Valley and nearby areas as the Pakistani military on Saturday, May 9, continued to pound suspected militant positions.
Amid protests against reported church destructions, the city of Hanoi has ordered one of its districts to stop construction work on land claimed by the Catholic church, Worthy News monitored Thursday, May 7.
Pakistan’s military and the militant Taliban group clashed in the country’s strategic Swat Valley Wednesday, May 6, adding to fears among minority Christians and forcing thousands of civilians to flee the area.
A Protestant pastor who says he was tortured while being detained in the Philippines has warned of widespread killings and other attacks against church members in the Asian nation.
Two men are dead and another remained missing Saturday, April 25, after some 40 Muslim militants raided the predominately Christian village of Sitio Arco in Basilan province in the southern Philippines, a Christian rights group said.
Pakistani Christians and advocacy groups remained concerned Monday, April 20, that militant Muslims will impose strict Islamic law across Pakistan after parliament approved such legislation in a key area of the country, while dramatic television footage showed the flogging of a teenage girl.
Two elderly Christian men could worship in freedom Sunday, April 19, after more than two years in a Pakistani jail on charges of blasphemy.
Worthy News Asia Service
NOMSOMBOON, LAOS (Worthy News)– Christians in a village of Laos’ Borikhamxay province were without a church building Tuesday, April 14, as police destroyed their property as part of a crackdown on Christians in rural areas, Worthy NewsLife learned.
A Christian journalist in Pakistan feared for his life Easter Sunday, April 12, after receiving threatening letters for publishing pro-democracy columns in a national daily and refusing to convert to Islam.
Christian families in Pakistan’s Punjab province were seeking justice Saturday, April 11, after men suspected of raping a Christian girl were acquitted and a baby girl was taken away from her Christian father, allegedly for religious reasons.
A Pakistani widow wanted to know Monday, April 6, why authorities allegedly let her imprisoned Christian husband die of asthma in Pakistan’s Punjab province, while a father there complained that his Christian son was detained on “false” charges.
An impoverished father was no longer expecting justice Thursday, April 2, over a month after his Christian son was killed in Pakistan’s troubled Pubjab province for “refusing to convert to Islam”, the latest in a series ofanti-Christian incidents in the region.
Human rights investigators have urged India’s government to tackle extremist groups and to improve protection of the country’s Christian minority after “the most severe anti-Christian violence seen in post-independence India,” which killed scores of people and displaced thousands, mainly in the states of Orissa and Karnataka.
Abducted Chinese Christian human rights attorney Gao Zhisheng was missing 50 days on Thursday, March 26, amid “increasing concern for his life,” human rights investigator said.
Pakistani police have detained five Muslim militants for their alleged involvement in a shooting spree at a Presbyterian Church, which killed at least one woman and injured several worshipers, a key investigator told Worthy News Saturday March 21.