Persecuted Christians

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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4/20/15 Washington D.C.  (International Christian Concern) - Militant Islamic terror group ISIS released a new video Sunday, April 19,  reportedly showing the gruesome murder of 30 Ethiopian Christian men in Libya. The footage alternates between two scenes: one in northern Libya on a Mediterranean beach where 15 men were beheaded, and one in the desert in southern Libya where...
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4/15/2015 Pakistan  ( Catholic Herald ) - A Pakistani Christian boy has died after being set on fire by a group of young Muslims after they discovered he was a Christian, according to a charity dedicated to supporting Pakistani Christians. The Centre for Legal Aid, Assistance and Settlement (CLAAS) said that Nauman Masih, 14, was set upon by unknown Muslims who were going to the...
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    The Incredible Story of Mounira, a Christian Mother Beaten, Divorced and Abandoned for Her Relationship with Jesus   By René Benoît and Troy Augustine ...
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06 April 2015 Al-Shabaab gunmen attacked a college in Garissa, north-eastern Kenya on Thursday, killing 148 people.  The attackers separated Christian students from Muslim ones and massacred the Christians. The victims are mainly students between the ages of 19 and 23. "The attackers were just in the next room," said Susan Kitoko, a student. "I heard them ask people whether...
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ICC Note: New details emerge in a series of assaults targeting Christians in the Mandera-area of Kenya last week that left five people dead and one critically wounded. Islamist militant group al-Shabaab has taken responsibility for a grenade attack in the town of Wajir, Kenya that killed four Christians March 17, and a shooting in Mandera March 15 where a Kenyan pastor has died....
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