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Christians Brace for Sharia in Pakistan's Swat Valley
Saturday, 03.28.2009, 04:15am
Just over a month since Pakistan’s fertile Swat Valley turned into a Taliban stronghold where sharia (Islamic law) rules, the fate of the remaining Christians in the area is uncertain. |
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Burma Clamps Down on Christians
Thursday, 01.22.2009, 05:55am
DUBLIN, January 21 : – Burmese authorities last week increased restrictions on Christian activity in the capital city of Rangoon and surrounding areas, including the closure of several churches, Compass sources confirmed yesterday.
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Buddhists Drive Bangladeshi Christian from Home
Friday, 12.26.2008, 03:13pm
DHAKA, Bangladesh, December 26 :– Buddhist villagers in southeastern Bangladesh’s Rangamati district last week beat a young father and drove him from his house for converting to Christianity. |
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INDIA: Christians Attacked, Arrested in Maharashtra and Karnataka States
Tuesday, 11.18.2008, 11:28am
New Delhi: November 18, 2008:- A mob of about 20 Hindu Vishwa Hindu Parishad and Shiv Sena on November 15 accused a pastor of forced conversion, stripped and beat him up till he felt unconscious in Bhayander, Mumbai, Maharashtra.
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INDIA: Orissa Braces For More Violence After Another Murder
Thursday, 11.06.2008, 04:21am
Terrified Christians already ravaged by more than two months of violence in Orissa state’s Kandhamal district braced for more carnage as suspected Maoists today gunned down a local worker of the Hindu extremist Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS). |
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INDIA: Soldiers Protecting Christians Mutilated, Killed in Orissa.
Tuesday, 10.21.2008, 02:47pm
A paramilitary soldier assigned to protect Christians from Hindu violence in Kandhamal district, Orissa was mutilated and killed by a mob in Sisapanga village on Oct. 13. |
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BANGLADESH: Christian Convert's life threatened
Thursday, 10.16.2008, 12:49pm
Muslim clerics and neighbors have ordered the father of a man who converted to Catholicism to remain confined to his house until retaliatory punishment can be exacted from the convert.
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PAKISTAN: Taliban Bombs Catholic Girls High School
Wednesday, 10.15.2008, 04:30am
Taliban militants bombed a Catholic-run girls’ school in Pakistan’s war-torn Swat Valley as part of a larger effort to subvert women’s status in society through Islamic law, locals say.
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INDIA: Evidence Concocted Against Christians In Murder Of Hindu Leader
Saturday, 10.11.2008, 04:05am
After police in the eastern state of Orissa confirmed this week that Maoists killed Hindu nationalist leader Swami Laxmanananda Saraswati, a Hindu extremist group circulated allegedly forged documents in an attempt to implicate a local church in the Aug. 23 murder.
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PAKISTAN: Pastor Suffers Police Attacks, Death threats
Friday, 10.10.2008, 04:54am
A Pakistani pastor and his family in Punjab province have been living in fear for months after death threats from a murder suspect and repeated attacks on their house by police squads.
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BANGLADESH: Suspects Charged In Rape Of Pastor's Daughter
Thursday, 10.02.2008, 10:53am
Police have submitted a charge sheet to a district court accusing two persons of raping a pastor’s daughter in the village of Laksmipur, said a state prosecutor.
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Fresh Attacks claimed 300 houses and 3 Churches, leaving 1 dead in Kandhamal
Thursday, 10.02.2008, 05:15am
The situation in Kandhamal is getting worse again. On September 30, 2008 nearly 300 houses and 3 churches were burnt by the mob of 3000 from RSS, VHP and Bajrang Dal from 7 Panchayats. The attack took place in the presence of police. Victims who sustained injury at village- Hrundangia, Telengia and Gadagura of G. Udayagiri, Kandhamal are admitted at MKCG Medical College and Hospital Berhampur. One woman later succumbed to injuries.
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Bishop wants ban on VHP and Bajrang Dal
Wednesday, 10.01.2008, 06:13am
New Delhi: Aggrieved over continuing attacks on churches and Christian community in Orissa, a prominent Christian Bishop has demanded a ban on VHP and Bajrang Dal and alleged that Naveen Patnaik government in the state is not "not even doing minimum" to protect the community.
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Manmohan Singh faces EU ire over 'massacre' of Christians in India
Wednesday, 10.01.2008, 05:30am
The European Union on Monday ticked off Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for his government's failure to curtail violence against ministry Christians in different parts of the country including severely affected states like Karanataka, Orissa and Kerala.
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