Benedict intends to live ‘hidden from the world’
February 15, 2013
Addressing church leaders for one of the last times of his papacy, Pope Benedict XVI said Feb. 14 that he intends to live
Persecution of Christians continues to rise for 7th straight year in China
February 14, 2013
Government persecution of Christians in China increased in 2012 for the seventh consecutive year, ChinaAid reported Feb. 4, with the government especially moving to eradicate
Preteen boys charged with ‘contempt’ of Islam
February 14, 2013
BENI SUEF, Egypt — Two boys, accused of allegedly showing contempt of Islam and arrested in late September 2012, are soon to stand trial.
Abducted girl’s family threatened in Pakistan
February 14, 2013
LAHORE, Pakistan — A powerful Pakistani politician’s aid who abducted a Christian girl from her home in Karachi has warned her parents that the
Police raid Baptist services in Kazakhstan
February 14, 2013
PETROPAVL, Kazakhstan — At least eight separate meetings for worship in Kazakhstan were raided by the authorities in January, according to Forum 18 news service.
Iranian-American pastor reportedly tortured
February 11, 2013
An Iranian-born pastor who is a U.S. citizen is undergoing physical and mental torture in a notoriously brutal Tehran prison while an international campaign for
Vietnam’s religion decree seen as step backward
February 7, 2013
HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam — Protestant Christians and leaders of other faiths in Vietnam are criticizing a new decree on religion that went
Iran sentences US pastor to 8 years in prison
February 7, 2013
ISTANBUL — Iranian-American pastor Saeed Abedini was sentenced to eight years in Iran’s most notorious prison Jan. 27 for allegedly threatening “national security” by planting
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