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CIC PERSECUTION NEWS HEADLINES
News of persecution, human rights violations, and other articles of interest.
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1 Corinthians 12:26a
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PERSECUTION NEWS HEADLINES for the two weeks ending June 7, 2013
| Vietnam Stonewalls Efforts to Rectify Religious Rights Abuses Officials cavalier or ineffective in face of murder, destruction |
| Police Back Off Statement of Religious Motive in Murder of Christian in India Investigator also denies tribal ritual took place before slaying; a more senior officer says it did |
| Iran Pastor Irani Facing Death Penalty; Health Deteriorating Iranian Pastor Behnam Irani, who may face the death penalty for "apostasy", is facing serious health problems after two years imprisonment, a close friend told BosNewsLife Friday, June 7. |
| Protests spread in Turkey, Christian ministry calls for prayer As protests spread to 61 of Turkey’s 84 provinces, Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan rejected criticism by the European Union over his government’s excessive use of force. |
| Imprisoned Pastor's Wife Addresses UN Panel Naghmeh Abedini, the wife of Pastor Saeed Abedini, an American citizen imprisoned for his faith in one of Iran's most notorious prisons, testified this week in Geneva, Switzerland, before the United Nations Human Rights Council. |
| Human Rights Organizations Expresses Concern at "Disproportionate" Sentencing of NGO Workers in Egypt A human rights organization is deeply concerned at the sentencing of 43 NGO employees, who were convicted of working in Egypt illegally by the Cairo Criminal Court on June 4 2013. |
| EGYPT: Christian Teacher Accused of Blasphemy Egyptian Christians have requested prayer following the detention of a Christian teacher accused of blasphemy. |
| ‘Christian Convert Kidnapped In Pakistan By Taliban Militants’ A 16-year-old Christian convert from Islam remained missing Friday, June 7, some two weeks after he was kidnapped by Islamic militants in Pakistan's volatile Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, Christian said. |
| India Militants Attack Baptist Pastors; Several Injured Twenty Baptist pastors have been attacked by suspected Hindu militants in southeastern India and several church leaders required hospital treatment for severe injuries, representatives said Friday, June 7. |
| Nigeria: Boko Haram officially banned On Tuesday morning, June 4, gunmen surrounded the Rubuki village in Nigeria, killing at least 16 people and destroying 25 homes. |
| Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan Sentences Pastors For Evangelism, Literature Distribution Evangelical Christians in Central Asia remained concerned Tuesday, June 4, about the plight of Pastor Sharofat Allamova who was sentenced to 1.5 years "corrective labor" in Uzbekistan for distributing Christian literature while in neighboring Kazakhstan a pastor was detained after distributing red tea during communion, activists and missionaries said. |
| ‘China To Eradicate All House Churches; Dozen Closed In Province’ China's Communist government has closed a dozen churches in Hainan Province and threatens to shut down many more as part of a "clandestine plan" to "eradicate" all unregistered house churches, an advocacy group warned Thursday, June 6. |
| The rise of Islamic extremism in Central Asia and the Caucasus New wave of radicalism predicted as region undergoes transition |
| Pakistan Pressured To Detain 36 Militants As PM Takes Office As Pakistan's former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif returned to power Wednesday, June 5, dozens of suspected Muslim militants were to learn whether their release on bail would be overturned, a Christian lawyer involved in the cases told BosNewsLife. |
| Visa trouble could be problematic for foreign workers in Afghanistan The Government of Afghanistan is refusing to give or renew visas for a large number of foreign workers with several international organizations, according to the Voice of the Martyrs USA (VOM). |
| Christians watchful as Sharif returns to power in Pakistan Fundamentalist ties, inaction on blasphemy laws give some cause for concern |
| World Watch Monitor reviews Paul Marshall, Lela Gilbert & Nina Shea's new book Persecuted: The Global Assault on Christians |
| Turkey: at the crossroads? -- a call to pray for the remnant church and for national awakening in Turkey The 'Great Schism' of 1054 left the church divided into Western (Latin / Roman) and Eastern (Greek / Byzantine) branches. As imperialist Ottoman Islamic forces advanced northwards, the Eastern Church found itself on the front-line of Islamic jihad. |
| NGOs Mark the Eleventh Anniversary of Government Crackdown on Churches in Eritrea Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW) joined members of the Eritrean diaspora, the Orthodox Church and six NGOs from the United Kingdom (UK) and Ireland on Thursday, May 20, 2013, in a protest vigil outside the Eritrean Embassy in London marking the eleventh anniversary of the imposition of severe restrictions on churches in Eritrea. |
| Serbia Ministry Leader in Prison for Defending His Family and Home Sasko Bogeski, the founder of ELION Media Ministry in Belgrade, Serbia, is sitting in prison because he defended his family and his home from a midnight intruder. For the second time in about six weeks, the apartment that Sasko lives in with his wife, Ira, and their daughter Abigail, age 8, was broken into. |
| Egypt practicing 'legal' discrimination against Christians Since the Arab Spring in Egypt, things have gotten increasingly worse for Christians. |
| Kazakhstan targets Muslim background Christians A new arrest in Kazakhstan has evangelical Christians concerned around the world. |
| Allegation against Imprisoned American-Iranian Pastor Saeed Abedini Says He was Commissioned by the White House A website affiliated with Iranian Intelligence Service claims in a report that Pastor Saeed Abedini, the Iranian-American pastor, was commissioned by the White House and the "Evangelical Council" to pursue nine objectives in the Assemblies of God church in Tehran. |
| China Sentences House Christians To Long Prison Terms Seven members of a house church in China's Henan province spent Sunday, June 2, behind bars after they were sentenced to long prison terms on charges of "cult activity", a leading rights activist told BosNewsLife. |
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