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July 4, 2009, 06:36:24 PM
Country: Islam, Somalia Islamic extremists are enforcing Sharia law in Somalia. There are small number of Christians in Somalia and the Islamic extremists are bent on destroying them.
July 4, 2009, 03:16:46 PM
Country: India An NGO is planning to provide a legal aid of 1-2 years estimating about 700 families affected in Gajapati district alone due to the still unresolved situation in Orissa.
July 4, 2009, 02:20:15 PM
Country: India Church leaders in India have welcomed a promise by federal Home Minister P. Chidambaram to review so-called "freedom of religion" laws that restrict conversions in several states.
July 3, 2009, 03:40:37 PM
Country: Ethiopia Ethiopian police have shot and killed two people who were helping to build a Christian church at a site which is also claimed by Muslims, officials say.
July 3, 2009, 02:30:03 PM
Country: Pakistan Unidentified people kidnapped the pastor at gunpoint on June 30 but he managed to escape.
July 3, 2009, 02:18:59 PM
Country: India A Church leader in Orissa state has hailed the first conviction linked to anti-Christian riots there last year, saying it will enhance Christians' confidence in the justice system.
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July 2, 2009, 02:53:25 PM
Country: Pakistan ICC first reported this story yesterday morning - other news agencies are picking it up, but you may not see it in the Muslim-dominated Pakistan press. ICC will contribute more details as we receive them from our correspondents.
July 2, 2009, 02:28:15 PM
Country: India On the evening of June 30, a group of believers in Orissa, India, was attacked with weapons by 40 to 50 people after refusing to participate in a Hindu festival.
July 2, 2009, 02:17:20 PM
Country: United Kingdom A school told a child to remove a Christian cross she was wearing even though it lets Sikh children wear bangles as part of their religion.
July 2, 2009, 01:45:00 PM
Country: Egypt Since early 2007 the Egyptian government has been appeasing Muslim fundamentalists by settling matters of sectarian conflict out of court in line with Islamic Sharia law. That prohibits Christians from bringing evidence against Muslims. The government brokers 'reconciliation' sessions where the Christians are forced to drop all the charges they are making (arson, looting, assault, kidnap, robbery, criminal damage, rioting, torture, rape, murder) in exchange for Muslim guarantees of 'peace'.
July 2, 2009, 01:34:24 PM
Country: China Chinese Pastor Dou Shaowen and his wife Feng Lu have been sentenced to a year of "re-education through labor" for "engaging in illegal religious activities" in the country's Henan province. The wife has been released to serve at home to care for their daughter, but she is required to regularly report to PSB and could still be sent to the labor camp if she continues in her "illegal religious activities."
July 2, 2009, 01:26:48 PM
Country: Somalia Islamic extremists have beheaded two young boys in Somalia because their Christian father refused to divulge information about a church leader, and the killers are searching Kenya’s refugee camps to do the same to the boys’ father.
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