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Thursday, 26 June 2014 01:00
Central Asia: Persecution threatens summer ministry
Preparations are under way for summer Bible camps in several nations formerly belonging to the Soviet Union. At the same time, in Central Asia persecution is on the rise. ‘For example, in Kazakhstan, one of the…
Thursday, 26 June 2014 01:00
USA: Don’t talk about faith, Christian student told
A Christian high school student was told he would be violating the US constitution if he mentioned his faith in his graduation speech. Officials from Brawley Union School District in California told Brooks Hamby, 18, that…
Thursday, 26 June 2014 01:00
Nigeria: Sixty more schoolgirls and women kidnapped, plus 31 boys
At least 91 people – including 60 schoolgirls and young women, plus 31 schoolboys – were kidnapped last week by Boko Haram extremists, two months after the same group kidnapped more than 200 schoolgirls in northeastern…
Thursday, 26 June 2014 01:00
India: Christian couple hacked to death
Police in eastern India were investigating Saturday, June 21, why a Tibetan couple was hacked to death after converting to Christianity. The investigation came while a funeral was under way for Dominic Bhutia, 45, and his…
Thursday, 19 June 2014 01:00
Turkey: Official discrimination towards Christians
Aykan Erdemir, a member of Turkey’s parliament, will travel to Diyarbakir Church in mid-June. To prepare for his visit, he looked up the church’s website but his parliamentary office computer blocked the church website with a…
Thursday, 19 June 2014 01:00
EU takes aim at radical jihadist websites
Nine European countries endorsed plans on 5th June to step up intelligence-sharing and take down radical websites to try to stop European citizens going to fight in Syria and bringing violence back home with them.The initiative…