More churches signed up to Olympics outreach than ever before
With just over a year left before the Games come to the capital, churches are drawing up their plans for coordinated outreach and engagement during the Games..
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Pakistan's 'blasphemy' laws pose growing threat
Pakistan's notorious "blasphemy" laws can put even children at risk, and Christians say the days when they could teach their offspring pat answers to protect them from accusations of disparaging Islam or its prophet seem to have passed.
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Villagers in Bangladesh beat Christian for defending girls
Muslim villagers beat a 22-year-old Christian man last month for defending Christian girls against routine harassment and bullying, sources said.
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Indonesian 'blasphemy' law a weapon for radical Islam
On Feb. 6 in Indonesia, Muslim hardliners armed with machetes brutally murdered three members of a "blasphemous" Muslim sect in the village of Cikeusik, West Java. Five other members escaped with severe injuries; police were present but did not intervene.
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CSW calls for aid and action for eastern Burma to address growing humanitarian crisis
Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW) is today calling for international action to end the growing humanitarian crisis in eastern Burma, where there is an acute food shortage in Karen state, and attacks on civilians in Shan State continue.
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'Blasphemy' laws in Egypt, Sudan threaten converts
Shifting political winds in the north African countries of Egypt and Sudan will leave their mark on history, but local attitudes ensure one thing remains unchanged: the laws against defaming Islam will stand like granite in a sandstorm.
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Nigerian pastor's wife, children among Christians killed in attack
As she lay on the ground after being shot and then slashed with a machete, Dune James Rike looked into her husband's tear-filled eyes and asked, "Is this the end between us, so we shall not be together again?"
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Vietnam: 130 detained as military disband ethnic minority cult followers
130 men have been detained and military personnel have been sent to Dien Bien province, North West Vietnam to seal off an area where ethnic Hmong followers of a cultic movement were disbanded by local military and the Vietnam People's Army last week. Several thousand cult followers, mostly women and children, were sent home, but sources suggest up to 3,000 remain.
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Iran: eleven Christians await verdict following rushed trial
Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW) has learned that eleven members of the Church of Iran who are facing charges of 'activities against the Order' and drinking alcohol were suddenly brought before the Revolutionary Tribunal in the Iranian city of Bandar-Anzali on Sunday 1 May.
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Mentally ill Christian charged with 'blasphemy' in Pakistan
Police in Chichawatni, Sahiwal district have charged a mentally ill Christian with "injuring religious feelings" under Pakistan's widely condemned blasphemy laws.
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Vietnam tries to portray cult gathering as Christian
The government tried to portray several thousand Hmong followers of a sub-Christian messianic cult as orthodox Christians while the military forcibly disbanded their gathering yesterday and today.
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Mother's Day in solitude for Asia Bibi, between pain and hope
Asia Bibi, the 45-year-old Christian mother of five who has been sentenced to death for alleged blasphemy, will spend \"Mother\'s Day\" (Sunday, May 8, 2011) in solitude in her prison cell.