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Pakistan: Christian Government Minister slain
06 Mar 2011
Unknown assailants sprayed bullets at minorities minister Shahbaz Bhatti a Christian who defied death threats following the murder of another politician opposed to Pakistan’s blasphemy law which carries the death penalty. While no one has been…
North Korea: World Watch update
06 Mar 2011
North Korea is in total crisis. Persecution of Christians is more severe there than anywhere else in the world. Famine holds vast swathes of the nation in its grip and untold thousands live in poverty and…
Afghanistan: Campaign to free Christians
06 Mar 2011
We can rejoice over the release of prisoner Said Musa, a Muslim convert to Christianity under threat of execution for apostasy, as Christian human rights organizations continue to work for the release of other converts who…
Zimbabwe: Bishops warn of rushed elections
06 Mar 2011
Last month scores of supporters of Tsvangirai's party sheltered in churches after being attacked and forced out of their homes by militant supporters of Mugabe's party. The work of the compromise government has been characterised by…
Christians in the evangelical church in Honduras fear they are being deliberately targeted following the murder of several pastors in recent months. Pastor Carlos Roberto Marroquín, the founding pastor of the Pentecostal Church of God and…
Libya: Refugees need help
02 Mar 2011
Tripoli Bishop Giovanni Martinelli needs help for refugees sheltering in his church. ‘We are worried for hundreds of Eritreans stranded here - no one cares for their evacuation. Italy is trying to take fifty four, such…