Compass Direct News
- 11/04/2011
Police-Sponsored Thugs Attack Church in Central Vietnam
Thugs said to be doing the bidding of local authorities attacked a pastor and his family with iron bars and wooden clubs in central Vietnam on Oct. 23, seriously injuring the heads and arms of the church leader’s father and other relatives, sources said.
- 11/03/2011
Massacre in Egypt Said to Cost Government All Credibility
- 11/03/2011
Burma Army Targets Christian Civilians in War on Insurgents
A recent attack on Christians and church buildings by Burmese soldiers in Kachin state showed that Christian civilians are targeted in the military offensive against insurgents.
- 10/25/2011
Christian Mother of Five in Nigeria Killed
Nigerian soldiers summoned to stop inter-religious fighting between Muslim and Christian youths last week shot and killed a Christian mother of five in the Yelwa area of Bauchi city, according to family and church sources.
- 10/25/2011
Indonesian Church Denied Site as New Bill Threatens Freedoms
The ban on street meetings forced church members to worship at an alternative location on Sunday. Amid the stand-off, religious freedom for groups such as the Yasmin church would be dramatically reduced under a “Religious Tolerance Bill” under consideration by the Ministry of Religious Affairs, critics of the proposal say. A constitutional debate is raging in Indonesia over the bill.
- 10/24/2011
Church Faces Increasing Hostility in Sudan
Emboldened by government calls for a Sudan based on Islamic law since the secession of South Sudan, Muslims long opposed to a church near Khartoum have attacked Christians trying to finish constructing their building, sources said.
- 10/23/2011
Pakistani Mother Condemned for 'Blasphemy' Allegedly Beaten
A female prison officer assigned to provide security for a Christian mother of five who was sentenced to death on “blasphemy” charges beat her earlier this month, sources said.
- 10/23/2011
Maldives Arrests, Deports Indian Teacher for Owning Bible
Police in the island nation of Maldives held a teacher from India for about 15 days before deporting him on Oct. 14 for having a Bible in his house, a source said.
- 10/23/2011
Islamic Extremists in Somalia Behead 17-Year-Old Christian
Militants from the Islamic extremist al Shabaab beheaded a 17-year-old Somali Christian near Mogadishu last month, a journalist in the Somali capital told Compass.
Tags Persecution - 10/18/2011
Islamic Extremist Group Kills Another Christian in Nigeria
Violence-weary Christians in Borno state have been further upset to learn of the murder of a Nigerian evangelist by Boko Haram less than three months after the Islamic extremist group killed a Maiduguri pastor.
- 10/13/2011
Officials in Sudan Threaten to Raze Three Church Buildings
Local authorities have threatened to demolish three church buildings in Omdurman as part of a long-standing bid to rid Sudan of Christianity, Christian sources told Compass.
- 10/13/2011
The Double Lives of Iraq's Christian Children
Nuria’s parents became Christians seven years ago. Life was easier for her parents before she and her sisters went to school. Her dad, a carpenter, used to speak openly about his faith. These days he is not so brave; he has had to change jobs one too many times because his employers discovered his faith.
- 10/13/2011
Egyptians Mourn Massacre of Coptic Christians
Funeral services were held Monday in Cairo for some of the victims of a military attack against a group of Christian protestors that left 26 dead and hundreds wounded.
- 10/08/2011
Students at Orphanage in India Forced to Pay Idol Worship Fee
Hindu extremists in West Bengal, India who earlier this year refused to admit Christian orphans to a high school have forced them to contribute funds for idol worship in order to gain admission, sources said.
- 10/07/2011
Pakistani Muslims Fire on Christians in Land-Grab, Killing One
Muslims in Pakistan’s Mian Channu area in southern Punjab Province shot dead an unarmed Christian man and injured 21 others, six of them critically, in an attempted land-grab on Wednesday.
