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Friday, 11 August 2017 15:19
Tajikistan: Pastor sentenced to 3 years in prison
Tajikistan's Sughd Oblast court sentenced Bahram Khalmatov, a 42-year-old Protestant pastor of the San-Maine-san-Bugim evangelical church in Khujand, to three years in prison on an unproven excuse of extremism, according to Mohabat News. The Tajik priest…
Friday, 11 August 2017 15:17
Iran: What made you hate me?
Eight days after receiving a 15-year prison sentence and nearly a year after he was first detained, Muslim convert to Christianity Amin Afshar Naderi wrote an open letter to Iranian authorities. ‘What have I done against…
Friday, 11 August 2017 15:10
Global: Helping the persecuted Church
Christians are being killed and imprisoned in Iran, Tajikistan, Iraq, Egypt, Syria, Pakistan, and Nigeria, to name but a few and persecution of Christians in the Middle East and Asia is forcing tens of thousands of…
Friday, 11 August 2017 10:15
Guam: North Korea/USA sabre-rattling...
Guam is a 210-square-mile sovereign US territory and military base in the western Pacific Ocean. 92% of the population are professing Christians. On 10 August North Korea defied threats of ‘fire and fury’ from Donald Trump,…
Friday, 04 August 2017 10:58
New Zealand: Income equality and housing
New Zealanders will elect 120 parliamentarians for its House of Representatives in the general election on 23 September. The Anglican Diocese of Wellington see the housing crisis as ‘a key issue’. Many can’t afford a home,…
Friday, 04 August 2017 10:57
Laos: Homeless
‘A’ woke up to the sounds of someone burning her house down. She grabbed her baby son and escaped. This was one of many hardships she had faced since deciding to leave her tribe’s traditional religion…