HO CHI MINH, Vietnam (Compass) — There has been a long history of persecution of minority Christians in Vietnam’s Western Highlands, where churches have largely had to operate underground since the communist takeover in 1975.
Ethnic violence between the Bajju and Ikulu ethnic groups in the Zangon Kataf region of Kaduna state in northern Nigeria have led to the killing of a pastor and two others.
The Bauchi state government in northern Nigeria has threatened to demolish two churches for zoning violations.
In a fresh attack on Christians and Muslims, the Hindu nationalist Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) has joined the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) in demanding the “Indianization” of Christians and Muslims in the country.
There has been a long history of persecution of minority Christians in Vietnam’s Western Highlands, where churches have largely had to operate underground since the communist takeover in 1975.
PHOENIX, AZ (ANS) – Bibles Unlimited, a Phoenix-based ministry that grew out of the New Life League, has been able to distribute some 7,500 Christian Resource Libraries to new believers and “seekers” in Ukraine over the past three years.
(Washington, DC) –– The American Center for Law and Justice, an international public interest law firm, said today the list of nominees announced by President Bush for federal appellate court judgeships is both “”balanced”” and “”diverse”” and urged the U.S. Senate to begin the confirmation process without delay.
WASHINGTON (ABP) — Abuses of religious freedom worsened last year in China and the Sudan, according to the second annual report of a government commission set up to monitor religious persecution abroad.
Early Wednesday morning, the badly mutilated bodies of two Israeli teenagers, both 14 and residents of Tekoa, in the Gush Etzion bloc south of Jerusalem, were found in a cave along a dry stream bed near the Judean Desert community.
BEIJING (BP)–Lay evangelists from numerous house churches in China are not alone as they direct their efforts toward unreached people groups and cities with the gospel.
TULSA, Okla. – Rutherford Institute affiliate attorneys have settled a lawsuit brought on behalf of two students and one teacher who were denied their constitutional rights to form an extracurricular Bible club at McLain High School Career Academy. The lawsuit charges that McLain school officials violated the students’ and teacher’s First Amendment rights of free speech, freedom of association, and freedom from discrimination on the basis of religion as well as their Fourteenth Amendment right of equal protection, and the Federal Equal Access Act.
LAKE STEVENS, Wash. – Rutherford Institute affiliate attorneys have successfully intervened on behalf of students at Lake Stevens High School who were denied their rights to establish an officially recognized extracurricular Bible club.
BOYNTON BEACH, Fla. (BP)–I can’t believe I waited 41 years for this,” exclaimed Frank Ingram, pastor of Westside Baptist Church in Boynton Beach, Fla. about the Passover Seder his church celebrated with Kol Dodi Messianic Congregation on Palm Sunday.
The news that 30 babies were born in the US through “genetic modification” has revived an ethical debate as to whether humans should be genetically modified or cloned.
(Boston, MA) – The American Center for Law and Justice, an international public interest law firm, announced today that the City of Newburyport, Massachusetts has replaced two commemorative brick pavers that were removed by the city from a city park because they contained religious messages.
Five officers of Turkmenistan’s secret police, the KNB (former KGB), raided the Baptist church in the western town of Balkanabad (formerly Nebit-Dag) during a service on July 7, Protestant sources have told Keston News Service.
ISTANBUL, July 5 (Compass) — An Assyrian Christian arrested a month ago for taking home videos in an ancient churchyard in Turkey’s heavily militarized Southeast was ordered released today by Diyarbakir’s State Security Court.
KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA (ANS) – The Prime Minister of Malaysia, Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad, made an impassioned plea for an end to inter-religious strife. Speaking at the official opening of the 11th General Assembly of the World Evangelical Fellowship in Kuala Lumpur on the evening of Friday, May 4, Dr Mahathir said that once started, religious disputes often lead to violence over several generations.
WASHINGTON, D.C. (HSLDA) —”All in favor of the Hoekstra amendment say ‘aye.'”
“AYE.”
“All opposed, ‘NO.'”
Silence . . .
Open Doors with Brother Andrew, the ministry begun more than four decades ago by Brother Andrew, the Dutch-born author of “God’s Smuggler,” is urging Christians worldwide to join their “Wage Peace Upon Colombia” campaign and pray for peace in that trouble-torn country and also for persecuted Christians there.