Archive | March, 2013

Pakistan. Exclusive photos: RescueChristians distribute food and supplies in Joseph Colony.

    These photos are new ones from our team on the ground in Pakistan, which has continued the effort to distribute food and supplies to the victims of the Muslim mob that descended on Joseph Colony near Lahore.                   Is it good enough just to be informed? Consider being a […]

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Syria/Europe. 1,000 Muslims from Europe are active as Islamic jihadists in Syria.

“I ended up running for my life, barefoot and handcuffed, while British jihadists — young men with south London accents — shot to kill. And not a Syrian in sight. This wasn’t what I had expected.” — John Cantlie, British photographer More than 1,000 Muslims from across Europe are currently active as Islamic jihadists, or […]

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Iran. three Christians released on a bail of $80,000 each.

Iranian authorities have released on bail three members of the evangelical Church of Iran who were detained on charges linked to their Christian activities, BosNewsLife learned Wednesday, March 20. Surush Saraie, Mohammad Roghangir and Massoud Rezaie were released by midnight Tuesday, March 19 after spending over five months behind bars, said Firouz Khandjani, a Church […]

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Sweden/Iran. Christian woman At Risk of Deportation to Iran.

Parvaneh Sarabadi is a Christian woman who converted from Islam to Christianity with her husband around two years ago. One of their relatives who works for the Islamic regime and has security support from the government, found out about their faith and eventually killed her husband in a conflict. In her interview with Mohabat News […]

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Indonesia. Church in Setu in Bekasiwas demolished on Thursday afternoon.

The Batak Protestant Church (HKBP) in Setu in Bekasi, West Java, was demolished on Thursday afternoon, according to a church leader who said that a lawsuit would be filed against the local administration. “It’s over. The church was demolished at around 2:45 p.m.,” Rev.Torang Parulian Simanjuntak told The Jakarta Post over the phone today. HKBP […]

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USA/Gaza. Hamas wants to be dropped from the list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations…

Hamas wants be dropped from the U.S. State Department list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations not because it has changed, but because it feels that the world has changed, and that many naïve Westerners are now willing to tolerate its radical ideology and terrorism. Hamas leaders are working hard these days to have their movement removed […]

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Egypt. Hundreds of Muslim villagers have attacked Christian-owned stores in search of girl.

Hundreds of Muslim villagers in Egypt’s south have attacked Christian-owned stores in search of a girl whose family claims was abducted. The villagers assaulted the stores Tuesday and surrounded two churches in the city of al-Wasta in Bani Suef province in Egypt’s south. Security forces guarded the churches. No casualties were reported. The college-aged girl […]

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Nigeria. Suicide bombing in Christian neighborhood – death toll has risen to 41.

The death toll has risen to 41 in the wake of Monday’s suicide bombing of a bus station in Kano, Nigeria. Many believe Christians were the target of the bombing because it took place in a primarily Christian neighborhood. Two suicide bombers, believe to be connected to Boko Haram, rammed a car full of explosives […]

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Nigeria. Five Christians shot dead, eleven were hospitalized.

Christian children fleeing from gunmen saved their lives by hiding among the rock formations towering over the eastern side of this northern village, but a 6-month-old baby and a 13-year-old girl never got the chance. The infant, Alexander Blessed, and the girl, Happiness Adamu, were the youngest of five people from five churches who were […]

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Burma. government troops had killed and raped dozens of civilians and burned hundreds of churches and homes.

Days before Burmese President Thein Sein was reportedly nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize last week, a report revealed his government troops had killed and raped dozens of civilians and burned hundreds of churches and homes. At war with rebels in predominantly Christian Kachin state, government troops killed at least nine civilians and wounded more […]

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