Manal and Alaa's bit bucket

Civil Rights Activist, Chen Guangchang Sentenced MIDLAND, Texas, Aug. 28 /Christian Newswire/ — CAA learned August 19, a house church in Liang Jiagou Village, Wudaqu District, Wuhai City, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region in China was raided by the local police. Around 8 AM, August 19, the local police, accompanied by the officers of the [...]

Aussie Pastors Face Jail Sentences; Won’t Apologize for expressing Beliefs About Islam vs. ChristianityWashington-based Becket Fund Defends Their Rights Under International LawWASHINGTON, Aug. 14 /Christian Newswire/ — Two Australian pastors in the province of Victoria will go to jail if they don’t apologize for publicly comparing Christianity with Islam according to their beliefs. Riding to [...]

MIDLAND, Texas, July 14 /Christian Newswire/ — CAA learned that a prominent female House Church leader was imprisoned in Jilin province on July 14, 2006. Additionally, in the past few days, 17 House Church pastors were detained at Henan and Sichuan Province. Photo: Detention paper by Langzhong City PSB, Sichuan province According to eyewitness reports, [...]

MIDLAND, Texas, July 6 /Christian Newswire/ — China Aid Association learned in the verdict of the first trial of a controversial religious group, three leaders were sentenced to death and another three were given two-year suspended death sentences. One more House Church leader was arrested at Sichuan Province today. According to a reliable source that [...]

MIDLAND, Texas, July 6 /Christian Newswire/ — China Aid Association learned in the verdict of the first trial of a controversial religious group, three leaders were sentenced to death and another three were given two-year suspended death sentences. One more House Church leader was arrested at Sichuan Province today. According to a reliable source that [...]

MIDLAND, Texas, July 14 /Christian Newswire/ — CAA learned that a prominent female House Church leader was imprisoned in Jilin province on July 14, 2006. Additionally, in the past few days, 17 House Church pastors were detained at Henan and Sichuan Province. Photo: Detention paper by Langzhong City PSB, Sichuan province According to eyewitness reports, [...]

Khartoum Continues to Deter Deployment of UN Peacekeepers International Force Urgently Needed to Address Deteriorating Situation on GroundWASHINGTON, June 26 /Christian Newswire/ — The Genocide Intervention Network today expresses serious concern over the UN’s failure to take meaningful action to end genocide in Darfur. Following the Sudanese government’s outright rejection of an international force [...]

WASHINGTON, June 16 /Christian Newswire/ — The Washington-DC based human rights group, International Christian Concern (ICC) www.persecution.org learned earlier in the year that two Christian men in Bhutan were arrested for showing the “Jesus” film in a Buddhist home. Recently, they were given 10 days to appeal to the courts for bail to avoid serving [...]

MIDLAND, Texas, June 14 /Christian Newswire/ — China Aid Association learned that a well-known disabled Chinese House church pastor was formally arrested May 26, 2006. Forty- Three-year-old Pastor Wang Zaiqing was accused of illegally printing and distributing Bibles and other Christian literature. According to a reliable source, May 26, Pastor Wang’s wife, Zhang Hongyan, received [...]

SANTA ANA, Calif., April 19 /Christian Newswire/ — It is estimated that between 2 and 3 million North Koreans have died over the past 10 years – most of them due to starvation – under the brutal dictatorship of President Kim Jong Il. North Koreans are denied basic freedoms and rights.Thousands are detained in prison [...]

Massive Arrest of Church Leaders Including Americans in Yunnan Province; CAA Issues Heartbreaking True Stories on Persecution inside China MIDLAND, Texas, April 19 /Christian Newswire/ — According to China Aid Association’s field investigators in China, 7 foreign evangelical church leaders including 5 Americans and 2 Taiwanese were interrogated for 5 hours [...]

Christian Freedom International Requests Emergency Donations to Assist Persecuted in Burma KO KAY VILLAGE, Burma, April 8 /Christian Newswire/ — Burma’s military dictatorship has launched a new wave of attacks against predominantly Christian Karen villages. In Burma this time of year is known locally as the “killing season” and this year is no exception. During [...]

MIDLAND, Texas, April 6 /Christian Newswire/ — China Aid Association learned that an anonymous party has submitted a petition on behalf of Pastor Gong Shengliang to the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention. Meanwhile, pastor Gong’s family members and legal representatives filed an appeal for medical parole to the Chinese prison due to pastor [...]

Christian Freedom International concerned about growing hostility in Washington toward persecuted Christian asylum seekers and refugees.MAE HONG SONG, Thailand, April 3 /Christian Newswire/ — Rie Htoo, 20, is ethnic Karen and was born in Burma. “My mother died when I was seven, my father died when I was 15,” Rie Htoo told Christian Freedom International. [...]

Damare, a young slave boy, had his knees and feet nailed to a board and was left to die - just for attending a church service. Miraculously he survived and told The Voice of the Martyrs that he forgave his cruel tormenter, becuase Jesus was nailed and forgave him.Learn the truth about Christian persecution! [...]

By Randall TerryA mysterious world exists behind the “Crescent Curtain;” a world in which a Muslim’s conversion to Christianity is viewed as a treasonous act against God, the state, and the community – punishable by death. Now that the potential death sentence of the Afghani — Mr. Abdul Rahman — is not imminent, the question [...]

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WASHINGTON, March 27 /Christian Wire Service/ — Concerned Women for America (CWA) is grateful that a court in Afghanistan has dismissed the case of Abdul Rahman, a man who was on trial for converting to Christianity over 16 years ago. The court’s decision to drop the case resulted from a reported “lack of information.” “Christians [...]

I am so happy. Overjoyed, even. If you would like to know why, then take a look at the following article, or at least the title of the article:“Official Saudi Fatwa of July 2000 Forbids Construction of Churches in Muslim Countries; Kuwaiti MP Concurs.” (Full Article.)Now look at the title of a recent CNN story:“Top [...]

My take: Rachel Frank felt like an outcast from her own (Dutch) society, and has fallen into the “religion,” albeit through marriage, from a desire to join a more accepting society. I’ll give them that… they sure know how to seduce people into their snares, just like any good cult!Dutch woman’s embrace of Islam draws [...]