Christian Persecution – Asia

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.

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.

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.

Thousands of North Korean Christians have received food and Christian education from a major Western organization, despite fresh attempts by North Korea’s leadership to crackdown on foreign aid, Worthy News established Wednesday, March 18.

A Christian teacher says he has been dismissed and two students suspended from an academy in Pakistan’s Punjab province over allegations they “humiliated Islam” and “blessed the Jewish descendants” of Abraham, the Biblical arch-father of the people of Israel.

Christian rights activists were hopeful Wednesday, March 11, that they would be able to “free” a Christian teenager who was allegedly abducted by a Muslim man last year in Pakistan’s Punjab province, and forced to marry him.

A Christian chief of a major hostel for nursing students in the Pakistani city of Lahore faced possible dismissal Wednesday, March 11, after she already receiving death threats from Muslim colleagues and militants for allowing Christian students to pray and worship on the hostel’s premises, a Christian rights and advocacy group said.

A Muslim man in Pakistan kidnapped, raped and forced a 13-year-old girl to convert to Islam and marry him at gunpoint, the latest in “growing trend” of attacks against Christian women in the country and other Islamic nations, Christian rights investigators told Worthy News Thursday, March 5.

An impoverished father of a young Christian woman was still knocking at the doors of Pakistan’s justice system Sunday, March 1, a year after his daughter was kidnapped by Muslim gunmen who apparently tried to “convert” her to Islam.