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Pray for the World

By and others ⋅ November 7, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

Prayer Focus Update November 2007 Issue 133 PRAYER FOCUS UPDATE is a monthly information bulletin with up-to-date news on the persecuted Church to help Christians pray for their suffering brothers and sisters. You can use this for prayer groups, your own information and for inclusion in church magazines. SUDAN – Grenade in Church service kills […]

International News

By and others ⋅ November 7, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

AUSTRALIAN PRAYER NETWORK NEWSLETTER * CHINA REACHES AN OFFICIAL FIGURE OF 130 MILLION CHRISTIANS * REPORT ON ASIAN REGIONAL PRAYER SUMMIT * KIWIS STAND UNITED IN PRAYER AT SOLEMN ASSEMBLY * INCREASING NUMBER OF DOCTORS IN THE UK REFUSING TO PERFORM ABORTIONS * AFRICAN CLERIC SAYS CHURCH HAS A PROPHETIC ROLE AND MUST NOT REMAIN […]

Kazakhstan; Russia; Transdniester

By and others ⋅ November 7, 2007 ⋅ 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 ================================================= 2 November 2007 KAZAKHSTAN: STATE AND FORMER USER FIGHT OVER HARE KRISHNA FARM http://www.forum18.org/Archive.php?article_id=1042 A court in Kazakhstan has decided to hand […]

Saving Iraqi Christians

By and others ⋅ November 2, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

31st October 2007 The 2,000-year-old Church in Iraq faces extinction at the hands of Islamic extremists. Many of the militants have made clear that they seek to cleanse their country of Christians and Christianity. They tell the Christians, “Convert to Islam, leave or die.” The militants are well on the way to succeeding in their […]

The Battle for Pakistan

By and others ⋅ October 31, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

On May 2007, WEA RLC released a News & Analysis posting entitled “Pakistan in Crisis: Situation Critical” (link 1), which examined Pakistan’s escalating sectarianism (Sunni vs Shi’ite) and Islamisation (both of which fuel Islamic zeal and intolerance) and lawlessness (which facilitates criminal activity and intensifying religious persecution). The situation is most severe in the Taliban […]

Pakistan

By and others ⋅ October 31, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

Subj: Pakistan: War and unprecedented persecution in NWFP. PAKISTAN: WAR AND UNPRECEDENTED PERSECUTION IN NWFP Persecution of Christians has long been intense right across Pakistan’s highly Islamised and Talibanised North West Frontier Province (NWFP). However Islamic zeal, tension, intolerance and belligerence has escalated dramatically over recent years as the Pakistan Army has been engaged in […]

International News

By and others ⋅ October 29, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

AUSTRALIAN PRAYER NETWORK NEWSLETTER * MILITANTS ATTACK CHRISTIAN CHURCHES IN PREVIOUSLY SAFE INDIAN STATES * LESS CHRISTIANS READING THEIR BIBLE IN NEW ZEALAND * BURMA CRACKDOWN CONTINUES ON KAREN MINORITY * NEWSWEEK POLL REVEALS 91% OF AMERICANS BELIEVE IN GOD * INDIA: PERSECUTION AT ALL TIME HIGH * CANADIANS ISSUE WORLD APOLOGY FOR SOCIAL ENGINEERING […]

Islamic Violence Against Christians (October 2007)

By and others ⋅ October 24, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

* NIGERIA – Anti-Christian rioting in Kano state * PAKISTAN – Two Christian schools targeted in NWFP * PAKISTAN – Surprise acquittal of Christian on blasphemy charges * IRAQ – Threats and violence to Christians continue * ETHIOPIA – Persecution of Christians in West * UK – Plight of converts from Islam in national media […]

International News

By and others ⋅ October 23, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

AUSTRALIAN PRAYER NETWORK NEWSLETTER * ARCHBISHOP ATTACKS UNFORGIVING MATERIALISTIC BRITAIN * SLAVERY STILL THRIVES IN SAHARA * BUSH SAYS ALL RELIGIONS PRAY TO SAME GOD * UK COUNCILLOR CALLS FOR LONDON CHURCHES TO TAKE AUTHORITY OVER HIGH YOUTH CRIME RATE * INDONESIAN CHURCHES MEET TO ADDRESS PERSECUTION * CLINICS RECRUIT SURROGATES TO PROVIDE KIDS FOR […]

Christian Bookstore Owner Was Tortured Before His Death

By and others ⋅ October 19, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

Wed, 17 Oct 2007 14:05:02 +0200 The owner of a Christian bookstore in the Gaza Strip who was found dead this weekend was publicly beaten by Islamic gunmen accusing him of spreading Christianity, witnesses and Palestinian Arab security officials said. The body of Rami Ayyad, director of Gaza’s only Christian bookstore, was found Sunday riddled […]

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