Pakistani pastor escapes, other leaders missing
May 27, 2004
ISTANBUL, Pakistan — A Protestant pastor kidnapped May 16 escaped from his Islamist abductors overnight May 17, some 40 hours after he had disappeared on
Arrests made in India persecution incident
May 27, 2004
DELHI, India — Six people were arrested May 3 in connection with a Feb. 10 incident regarding residents of Kilipala village in Orissa state shaving
Egyptian court returns I.D. card to Christian
May 27, 2004
CAIRO, Egypt — In an unprecedented verdict on April 13, an Egyptian court ordered the Interior Ministry to return formal Christian identity status to a
Young mothers risk death of self, infants
May 20, 2004
WESTPORT, Conn. — More than 1 million infants and about 70,000 teenage mothers die each year in developing countries because adolescent girls are marrying and
Former Iraq hostage returns to ‘normal’ life in Mississippi
May 20, 2004
In an attempt to return to a normal life in his hometown of Macon, Miss., Thomas Hamill attended a morning worship service at Calvary Baptist
Cleric detained in Pakistani Christian death
May 20, 2004
ISTANBUL — Pakistani police reluctantly detained a Muslim cleric last week after a Christian university student savagely tortured inside an Islamic madrasseh (seminary) died of
Mennonite evangelists imprisoned in Vietnam
May 20, 2004
HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam — More than two months after their arrest, three evangelists and a staff member of the Mennonite Church in Vietnam
Rwanda 10 years later: Rebuilding after genocide
May 6, 2004
In the spring of 1994 Rwanda President Juvenal Habyarimana’s plane exploded from a missile attack, killing everyone on board. Hours later the country plummeted into
