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Coptic Christian Family in NJ Slaughtered by Islamic Radicals

By and others ⋅ January 21, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

ISLAMIC HATE’ EYED IN SLAYS By DOUGLAS MONTERO and STEFAN C. FRIEDMAN http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/38704.htm January 16, 2005 — The father of a murdered New Jersey family was threatened for making anti-Muslim remarks online – and the gruesome quadruple slaying may have been the hateful retaliation, sources told The Post yesterday. Hossam Armanious, 47, who along with […]

Funeral of an Egyptian Christian family

By and others ⋅ January 21, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

New York Daily News – http://www.nydailynews.com Grief and anger BY TAMER EL-GHOBASHY DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER Tuesday, January 18th, 2005 Anger boiled over as thousands of mourners gathered in Jersey City yesterday for the funeral of an Egyptian Christian family found robbed and slain in their home. With authorities mum about their probe into the […]

19 January 2005 Update From HCJB World Radio

By and others ⋅ January 20, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

DISTRIBUTION OF 54,000 NEW TESTAMENTS IN TURKISH CITIES CAUSES STIR CAMBODIA CLOSES BORDERS TO MONTAGNARDS FLEEING VIETNAM MILITANT MUSLIMS KILL ANOTHER CHRISTIAN IN NIGERIA’S PLATEAU STATE AZERBAIJANI CHILD WITH CHRISTIAN NAME FINALLY GETS BIRTH CERTIFICATE NIGERIAN CHRISTIANS SLAM GOVERNMENT REPORT ON RELIGIOUS VIOLENCE SLAVIC GOSPEL ASSOCIATION HELPS HEAL WOUNDS IN BESLAN, RUSSIA Today’s News Stories: […]

Armenia; Belarus; Kazakhstan; Nagorno-Karabakh;Turkmenistan

By and others ⋅ January 20, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

FORUM 18 NEWS SERVICE, Oslo, Norway http://www.forum18.org/ The right to believe, to worship and witness The right to change one’s belief or religion The right to join together and express one’s belief 6 January 2005 ARMENIA: RELIGIOUS CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTOR FORCIBLY TAKEN TO NAGORNO-KARABAKH http://www.forum18.org/Archive.php?article_id=484 Armen Grigoryan, a religious conscientious objector who is seriously contemplating becoming […]

Egyptian Christian Family of Four Killed in New Jersey

By and others ⋅ January 20, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

19 January 2005 EGYPTIAN CHRISTIAN FAMILY OF FOUR KILLED IN NEW JERSEY An Egyptian Christian father, Hossam Armanious, his wife and two daughters were found knifed to death in their home on 14th January 2005. Police are investigating several theories, but religious tensions have been suggested as a potential motive. Armanious had been threatened during […]

Azerbaijan; Georgia; Kazakhstan

By and others ⋅ January 20, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

FORUM 18 NEWS SERVICE, Oslo, Norway http://www.forum18.org/ The right to believe, to worship and witness The right to change one’s belief or religion The right to join together and express one’s belief 10 January 2005 AZERBAIJAN: WILL CHRISTIAN CHILDREN NOW GET BIRTH CERTIFICATES? http://www.forum18.org/Archive.php?article_id=487 Having repeatedly refused to register 18-month old Luka Eyvazov’s birth, because […]

18 January 2005 Update From HCJB World Radio

By and others ⋅ January 20, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

Today’s Headlines: CHINESE BELIEVERS DOUBTFUL NEW RELIGION LAW WILL INCREASE FREEDOMS GEORGIAN BAPTISTS FACE CONTINUAL PRESSURE FROM OPPONENTS WORLD EVANGELICAL ALLIANCE’S SECRETARY GENERAL RESIGNS MISSIONARY URGES BELIEVERS TO HELP REBUILD IRAQ’S DAMAGED CHURCHES FEEDING, TECHNOLOGY PROGRAM BRINGS HOPE TO IMPOVERISHED KENYANS JAMES KENNEDY TO BE INDUCTED INTO NRB HALL OF FAME Today’s News Stories: CHINESE […]

17 January 2005 Update From HCJB World Radio

By and others ⋅ January 19, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

Today’s Headlines: LOWER PAKISTANI COURT ACQUITS CHRISTIAN ACCUSED OF BLASPHEMY POWERFUL BOMB FOUND INSIDE CATHOLIC CATHEDRAL IN PHILIPPINES COURT TO HEAR APPEAL FROM 2 IMPRISONED VIETNAMESE MENNONITES MINISTRY CONTINUES TO REACH OUT TO HAITI’S FORGOTTEN STORM VICTIMS MEN FOR MISSIONS OUTREACH PLANS TO EXPAND WORK BEYOND HAITI UKRAINIAN STREET CHILDREN FIND NEW LIFE DURING DEMONSTRATIONS […]

Day for peace in a splintered Sudan

By and others ⋅ January 18, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

January 10, 2005 edition Sunday’s agreement may end the north-south civil war, but the humanitarian crisis continues in Sudan’s Darfur region. By Abraham McLaughlin | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor NAIROBI, KENYA – In a sun-dappled stadium here full of some 30,000 people, a peace deal was inked Sunday that may end Africa’s […]

20 December 2004 Update From HCJB World Radio

By and others ⋅ January 17, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

2 AUSTRALIAN PASTORS FOUND GUILTY OF ‘VILIFYING ISLAM’ MINISTRY BRINGS HOPE TO WESTERN SUDAN AMID CONTINUED FIGHTING NO ROOM IN THE COWSHED FOR PENTECOSTAL CHURCH IN BELARUS 21-NATION SURVEY SHOWS THAT MAJORITY OF EUROPEANS BELIEVE IN GOD BIBLE COURSES REACH ADDITIONAL ETHNIC GROUPS IN FORMER SOVIET UNION DONORS INCREASINGLY SEEK CONVENIENCE OF ONLINE HOLIDAY GIVING […]

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