Posts Tagged ‘Association’
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Anti-Christian hostility high in Zanzibar as Tanzania mainland also heats up
Islamic extremist attacks and land grabs on this semi-autonomous island off the coast of Tanzania have continued unabated even as violence has increased on the mainland.
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Suspected Boko Haram gunmen kill Christian leader in Borno State, Nigeria
Gunmen believed to be members of the Islamic extremist Boko Haram group yesterday killed the Rev. Faye Pama Musa, secretary of the Borno state chapter of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN). He was 47.
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ChinaAid, 7 others urge Kerry to raise human rights issue in China visit
WASHINGTON, DC (ANS) – In advance of US Secretary of State John Kerry’s first trip to China, ChinaAid and seven other human rights groups, have advised him his visit is a “unique opportunity” for the United States t...
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Pakistani court overturns Younis Masih’s ‘blasphemy’ conviction, Death Sentence
A court in Pakistan today overturned the death sentence of a Christian convicted under Pakistan’s “blasphemy” laws and ordered him released, according to an advocacy group.
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Case against Rimsha Masih to be reopened
By Dan Wooding Founder of ASSIST Ministries ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN (ANS) – Following the recent savage violence against Christians in a poverty-stricken Lahore ghetto on Saturday, March 9 during which a frenzied Muslim mob ...
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Iranian Pastor Nadarkhani believed to be dead
An Anglican vicar in Iraq has said that besieged Iranian Pastor Youssef Nadarkhani is dead.
Writing on his Facebook page today (Thursday, March 7), Canon Andrew White, who serves St. George’s Church in Baghdad, said he was m...
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2 pastors in India arrested after being beaten, threatened
NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – Pastor Mallik Arjun knew something was wrong when he received a call from the mobile phone of his friend and fellow pastor in Gadag District, Karnataka state – but it was a stranger on the other ...
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Evangelical group proposes code of ethics for pastors
The National Association of Evangelicals is urging pastors to seek a common moral ground by uniting under a consistent code of ethics.ale Church in Eden Prairie, Minn.
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Billy Graham Evangelistic Assoc. lays off 50 employees
The Billy Graham Evangelistic Association is laying off 10 percent of its staff as it shifts resources to make online evangelism a priority. Some 50 people on the 500-member staff will lose their jobs between mid-March and this...
Turkish Christians Subject to Discrimination, Attacks, Report Says
Despite some promising developments, Christians in Turkey continue to suffer attacks from private citizens, discrimination by lower-level government officials and vilification in both school textbooks and news media, according ...