After five months in a tiny pitch-black cell, Hzkias, an Eritrean Christian jailed for his faith, said he "looked like another creature."
0Amid vigorous debate among scholars in China on the status of house churches, one prominent scholar has suggested the government offer more openness and legal standing to house church Christians, but authorities have reacted with raids, arrests, forced church closures and a ban on the Chinese Federation of Christian House Churches.
1Living and working in the Middle East means living and working in the midst of wreckage. Wherever you travel in the region you find the traces of conflict.
0A Christian mother in Egypt has won custody of her twin sons from her estranged husband, who had converted to Islam and claimed them according to Islamic legal precepts.
1Nearly a year after the outbreak of anti-Christian violence in Orissa, India, the state government finally handed out its first conviction.
1Hindu hardliner and chief of the Rashtriya Hindu Sena, Pramod Muthalik, has criticized a India's top government official for apologizing to the victims of last year's anti-Christian violence.
2Appalled by the violence and its consequences on Christians in the communally sensitive Kandhamal, India's top government official apologized and offered adequate security and rehabilitation measures to help the affected start their lives newly.
13The wave of attacks on churches in Karnataka, India, have only "increased our faith and brought us together," says Archbishop Bernard Moras, whose noteworthy initiative has united churches of many denominations.
6A Christian persecution aid group has released a report describing the state violence underlying the recent mass exodus of the Myanmar ethnic Karen people.
0A judge in Cairo recently rejected a request by a Muslim background believer in Egypt to legally change his religious status, marking the second time such a request was turned down in the predominantly Muslim country.
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