Persecuted Christians

  German language 02.10.2015    TANSANIA Seit 2013 insgesamt 13 Kirchen in betroffener Provinz bei Anschlagserie zerstört (Open Doors, Kelkheim) - Innerhalb von nur einer Woche sind im Nordwesten Tansanias sechs Kirchen durch Brandanschläge zerstört worden. Es ist der vorläufige Tiefpunkt einer seit zwei Jahren anhaltenden Entwicklung. Örtliche Pastoren...
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by Sumon Corraya The attackers wanted money in exchange for the house. They threatened to kill the residents. Christian activist: "Grave injustice to the Christian community. In Bangladesh we are a weak minority and this is why Muslims are attacking us. "   Dhaka (AsiaNews) - About 100 Muslims attacked a Christian family living in Dhaka and forced them to leave their three...
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http://www.asianews.it/news-en/Aceh:-thousands-of-people-flee-religious-violence-following-church-attacks-35595.html by Mathias Hariyadi   Jakarta (AsiaNews) – Thousands of people have fled their homes, streaming out of Aceh Singkil Regency, Aceh Province, following sectarian violence two days ago. Hundreds of Muslims from the Islamic Youth Movement  set fire...
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http://www.asianews.it/news-en/Arrested-for-praying,-Laotian-Christian-dies-in-prison-for-lack-of-treatment-35373.html »  09/21/2015 LAOS Tiang, a married father of six, died in jail waiting before his appeal could be heard. Although he suffered from diabetes, prison officials repeatedly denied him treatment. He and four others had been convicted for praying on behalf of a...
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22 September 2015 If you're not a morning person, you may have joked about needing coffee to 'bring you back to life' - but for Belen, an Ethiopian Christian, God has used coffee to bring real transformation. When Belen's husband rejected her because of her faith, she was able to open a coffee shop to support her family, thanks to the prayers and gifts of Open Doors supporters. "God...
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09/23/2015 Washington, D.C.  ( International Christian Concern ) - International Christian Concern (ICC) has learned that the Christians of El Oula village, El Amerya district, Alexandria have been under attack since Sunday. At least two Christians have been hospitalized in critical condition after suffering serious injuries, and four homes have been attacked. On Sunday,...
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09/11/2015 Washington, D.C. ( International Christian Concern ) - Christian villagers in India's Chhattisgarh state have reportedly been brutally assaulted by Hindu radicals following the passing of a resolution in the village banning all non-Hindu religious activities. As a result of the attack, two Christian women were seriously injured and rushed to a hospital for treatment. This...
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25 August 2015 A group of 15 young believers travelled 430 km from Addis Ababa to the Eastern Ethiopian town of Karamile in the Muslim majority area of Oromia state to meet other Christian youngsters and do outreach work. The group encountered trouble on their first day when a group of local people who were opposed to their evangelism efforts physically assaulted two of the girls...
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http://www.asianews.it/news-en/Faisalabad:-Christian-family-forced-to-flee-from-place-to-place-after-wife-converts-from-Islam-35131.html »  08/25/2015 PAKISTAN by Stephen Masih Khurram Naveed, 33, a Christian man, and Sobia, 25, a Muslim woman, taught at the same school. Aided by Khurram, Sobia discovered Christianity and decided to be baptised. Since they got married and...
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27 July 2015 Maryam*, is a secret believer in the Middle East. She decided to follow Jesus after going to a house church with her aunt. Recently she joined with other believers at an Open Doors discipleship training programme held at a secret location. Like all the others in attendance, Maryam has had to take precautions because of her faith. She left her government...
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07/29/2015 Washington, D.C. ( International Christian Concern ) - In January 2015, Christians in a village in southern India were brutally assaulted by Hindu radicals. In response to the crisis faced by this Christian community, International Christian Concern (ICC) was able to replace the Bibles these Christians lost in the assault, by doing so, and also brought this persecuted...
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ICC Note: When ISIS is pushed out of a territory Christians are wanting to go back, but often the area is littered with land mines awaiting the return of village residents. Kurdish fighters and militiamen are sweeping homes and farms with families after ISIS’s retreat, but are finding themselves unprepared and untrained to deal with this problem effectively. Many have died trying to...
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06 July 2015 Martina Paul, a 32-year-old mother of five, remembers the night she was taken by Boko Haram militants: "The insurgents came to our village at night. I was in the room with my husband and the kids. We said our prayers, went to bed, and woke up to the sound of explosions and gunshots all over the village. We heard cries of other people in the village, shouting the name of...
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ICC Note:  This article traces the campaign of cross removals and entire church demolitions in Zhejiang Province to the “sinicization” policy laid out by Chinese President Xi Jinping in May.  However, crosses were being removed, and entire churches razed, long before that time.  “Sinicization” is just the latest excuse used by government officials to try to justify the overt...
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http://www.asianews.it/news-en/Yogyakarta:-Islamists-expel-thousands-of-Christians-from-a-scout-camp-because-it-is-Ramadan-34678.html »  07/03/2015 INDONESIA by Mathias Hariyadi Organised by an Indonesian Protestant group for the period of 1-5 July, the gathering was shut down on its second day following a raid by Muslim fundamentalists. For a radical Muslim leader,...
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Read more at http://www.christianpost.com/news/isis-holds-227-assyrian-christians-hostage-as-world-watches-genocidal-ethno-religious-cleansing-in-the-middle-east-says-relief-worker-140603/#Y6Z0kBW27yB9416D.99 Over 200 Assyrian Christians remain captured by terror group ISIS despite the release of another hostage earlier this week, and despite the liberation of Assyrian villages that...
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ICC Note: Christians in the Middle East bear the cross of abandonment by Christians in the West. In the ancient birthplace of the religion, there is a cleansing that jihadists carry out in a brutal fashion and it is spreading across the region. Now as 88 Eritreans are captured in Libya and countless others are still missing, will the western church continue to turn a blind eye to this? At...
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    Christians Told to Give Up Church or Face False Blasphemy Accusation in Pakistan   By ICC's Pakistan Correspondent,     ...
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26 May 2015   "It was so cold during the night you would suffer hypothermia... So hot during the day that your skin would burn to the edge of the container... The bugs that bite you felt like fire all over your body... But like driving a nail into wood, every hit, every beating, and every blow to my body drew me closer to God..." These are the words of an Eritrean...
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29 May 2015 Noushin* is a house church leader in Iran. When people from her network of secret believers started being arrested she feared that she would be next. Would her faith be strong enough to endure persecution? I am the leader of my house church, so when one day I heard of yet another arrest in my network I feared for my arrest as well. I wasn't ready to go to prison. I...
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5/26/15 Khartoum, Sudan  ( FOX News ) - Two Christian pastors from South Sudan who traveled north to Sudan and were arrested on charges of spying could face the death penalty when their trial begins next week, according to their attorneys. Yat Michael Ruot and Peter Yein Reith, both Presbyterian pastors from the breakaway Christian nation of South Sudan, are being held by...
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  Government and police officials are complicit to land grab, intimidation, and infringement upon family's religious freedom 5/21/15 Washington, D.C. (International Christian Concern) - International Christian Concern (ICC) has learned that a Muslim mob in Deder, Ethiopia, has attacked a Christian man and forced him out of his home on the threat of...
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          The story of a modern-day Paul, redeeming her imprisonment for the glory of God, preaching the gospel for the salvation of Muslim inmates. ...
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      They Died Because of Their Love for Jesus and Family The story of three Ethiopian martyrs  who claimed Christ and sought better lives  ...
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22 April 2015 Among the   800 migrants who drowned   when their ship capsized off the Italian coast there were some 150 from Eritrea. The Guardian has  an excellent article  which demonstrates that many Eritrean refugees are not so-called 'economic migrants' but people who are desperate for freedom. "In Eritrea you're even afraid to talk to your family,"...
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