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India: Asks US evangelists to leave
23 Jun 2011
An international advocacy group urged the U.S. government to condemn Indian authorities for asking three American Christians to leave India because they allegedly participated in evangelism. ‘We urge the U.S. government to look into this matter…
Afghan Christian refugees who fled to India are in hiding over fears they will be deported back to Afghanistan, where possible arrest, imprisonment and execution await them. In 2010, a television network broadcast baptisms of Afghan…
Syria: Christians' concerns
23 Jun 2011
On Wednesday security forces entered Damascus university dormitories, detaining dozens of students and setting fire to some rooms. Source: An Open Doors report said, Christians in Syria have been living in peace with churches practicing their…
Sudan: A call to prayer
23 Jun 2011
June 21st the Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Kadugli called Sunday June 26th a day of prayer and fasting ‘To end the Nuba Genocide and for the Peace of all Sudan’ as Sudan faces the…
INSIGHT: Horrendous violence in Sudan
16 Jun 2011
A newly built Anglican cathedral has been burned down and UN personnel are ‘unable to protect civilians’ in South Kordofan Sudan, which is overrun by the army using heavy force to subdue militias. The violence is…
Nigeria: More Muslim militants’ murders
16 Jun 2011
Muslim extremists from the Boko Haram sect killed Rev. David Usman, 45, and church secretary Hamman Andrew in Maiduguri, in northeastern Nigeria’s Borno state. They were the latest casualties in an upsurge of Islamic militancy that…