NAGORNO-KARABAKH: Repressive new Religion Law signed

By Felix Corley, Forum 18 News Service The President of the internationally unrecognised entity of Nagorno-Karabakh, Bako Sahakyan, has signed a repressive new Religion Law, Forum 18 News Service has learnt. It comes into force ten days after its official publication, which is expected to be after the current Christmas holidays. No officials were available […]

China ‘in Political Dead End’

 
2009-01-03
Bao Tong, a former top Communist Party official, says China’s political system has a disastrous lack of checks and balances, calling it a terrifying juggernaut.
AFP
A brand new statue of revolutionary leader Mao Zedong, who founded the People’s Republic of China in 1949, is completed in Chongqing, October 2008.
A series of changes in policy, and in […]

Islamists attack two Churches in Pakistan

Islamists attack two Churches in Pakistan

Source:  www.assistnews.net
Date:  2009-01-04
By Dan Wooding and Sheraz Khurram Khan Special report
KARACHI, PAKISTAN (ANS) — Islamist fundamentalists in the Pakistani city of Karachi in the Pakistani province of Sindh attacked two churches on the eve of New Year.
Unidentified militants forcibly entered in Christ Awami Church located […]

Persecution in 2009

Persecution in 2009 Source:        www.MNNonline.orgDate:           January 2, 2008 International (MNN) ― Persecution will probably continue to intensify in the year 2009, as nations struggle through economic troubles and the Untied States inaugurates a new president. “I think this is an extremely volatile time, and I think Christians around the world are […]

Christian leaders in Jerusalem say violence in Gaza does not lead to peace, only increases hatred

The appeal by 13 patriarchs and heads of Christian Churches denounces the violence by both sides. It calls on Palestinian factions to seek reconciliation and put the interests of the population before their own; it also urges the international community to make a commitment to a lasting solution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. They call on […]

WUC and UAA Submission for the Fourth Session of the Universal Periodic Review

WUC and UAA Submission for the Fourth Session of the Universal Periodic Review
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Universal Periodic Review - China - Reference DocumentsWUC and UAA SubmissionUniversal Periodic Review“By your first anniversary in June, the wheels of the Council should be in full motion, including the Universal Periodic Review. This mechanism has great potential to promote and protect […]

Christmas peaceful in India for Christians

Source:        www.MNNonline.org
Date:           December 30, 2008
 

India (MNN) ― Christians in India are joyful today after a calm Christmas in Orissa. Last year at this time, radicals attacked Christians, beating them, burning their homes and destroying churches.
Founder and President of Gospel for Asia KP Yohannan says even though […]

WOLF VOICES GROWING CONCERN ABOUT PLIGHT OF THE IRAQI CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY

 
 
Washington, D.C. — At a U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom press conference today in which the Commission  recommended that Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice designate Iraq a “Country of Particular Concern” (CPC), Rep. Frank Wolf (R-10th) voiced his shared concern about the state of religious liberty in Iraq, specifically the plight of the ancient […]