Persecution Journal: November 2009

New Resources

November 8: Churches Reminded to Pray for the Persecuted
The Nightingale Sings of Persecution in Eritrea

Killings, martyrdoms

Christian Killed Over Alleged Son’s Affair: Coptic Christian shot to death.
Iraq: In Kirkuk, Christian Presence Sometimes Targeted

New releases, freedoms, protections

Vietnam government legalizes Pentecostal church
Can Egypt Protect its Copts?

Legislation

Vietnam: Sharp Backsliding on Religious Freedom [...]

Persecution Journal: August 16, 2009

Killings, martyrdoms

Somali Islamists Behead Christian Leader’s Young Sons
Mauritania: Christians Tense after Murder of Aid Worker

New releases, freedoms, protections

China Releases House Church Leaders, Christians: more than a dozen freed.
New Governor of Karnataka Promises to Protect Minorities
Egypt: Court Grants Custody of Sons to Coptic Mother

Legislation

India: Church Welcomes Move to Review Anti-Conversion Laws

Injustice, false arrest, false imprisonment

Church School [...]

Persecution Journal: July 16, 2009

General trends

The church in Iran gains momentum? (CBN News)

Religious Freedom

Qatar Christians celebrate consecration of new church: Qatar making progress in respecting freedom of religion.
Maldives: Almost no religious freedom for migrant workers: luggage searched, workers banned from practicing non-Muslim faiths privately. 80,000 migrant workers make up a quarter of the country’s population, mostly in [...]

Persecution Journal: June 16, 2009

General analysis of trends

Christians Suffering Inside Iran
Anti-Christian bias in Egypt: Report
Yemen Christian Expatriates Review Security Following Killings
ICC: Diminishing Middle Eastern Christians

Martyrs

Christian Murdered for Drinking Tea from a Muslim Cup
New Martyrs in Yemen: several medical workers abducted, killed
Gunmen Kill Priest, 2 Seminarians in Mexico

Threats

Christians in Nepal Defy Extremists’ Demand [...]

A case study on persecution from Colombia

This morning’s news flash from Compass Direct is another case study of the question, “When is persecution, persecution?”
In this particular case, evangelical pastors in Colombia are being threatened with death–not because they are Christians, but because they preach a message of peace which contradicts the aims of the guerrillas. The pastors were told that they [...]

Iran: Parliament passes apostasy death bill

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By Elizabeth Kendal
World Evangelical Alliance Religious Liberty Commission (WEA RLC)
Special to ASSIST News Service, Republished with permission
AUSTRALIA (ANS) – That apostasy (leaving Islam) is an enormously risky even deadly business in any Muslim country is [...]

Christians hide in forests as Hindu mobs ransack villages

As death toll rises, Prime Minister denounces ‘national shame’ in state of Orissa where 60 churches were burned down. In Guardian.co.uk.

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Saudi man kills daughter for converting to Christianity

A Saudi man working with the Commission for Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice recently killed his daughter for converting to Christianity. The death of the girl sent shockwaves and websites where the victim used to write with various nick names have allocated special space to mourn her, while some others closed temporarily in
protest. [...]

Christians attacked in Nigeria

An Islamic group in Nigeria’s Kwara state is attacking Christians, blaming Christian prayers for a Muslim leader’s death. In Compass Direct.

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New Martyr in Somalia

Islamic extremists shot and killed a Muslim convert
to Christianity on July 10, 2008 in Afgyoye, a town 18 miles away from
Mogadishu, Somalia’s capital. The victim’s name was Sayid Ali Sheik
Luqman Hussein, and he was 28 years old. He was the fifth believer martyred in Somalia in the last nine months. In Assist News.

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