Bhubaneswar; (SVM News) December 28, 2007: At least 55 Churches at G Udaygiri, Nuagaon, Brahmanigaon and Phulbani Sadar were attacked and a Congress MP Radha Kant Nayak`s house was ransacked in Dasingbadi in violence on the fifth day in the rural tribal dominated areas of Orissa.
Eight people kil

PAKISTAN (ANS) -- Former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto was assassinated in an election-rally attack in Rawalpindi, threatening the stability of a nuclear-armed nation that is a focal point of the West`s war on terror.
Bloomberg News reported that police said at least 16 people died and m

Pakistani opposition leader and former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto has been assassinated in a suicide bomb attack earlier on Thursday, December 27, in Rawalpindi, Pakistan.
The attack took place during a political rally ahead of the general election on January 9. Around 20 people are believed to

OTTAWA: December 27, 2007. Deepak Obhrai, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Member of Parliament for Calgary East, joins the Honourable Maxime Bernier, Minister of Foreign Affairs, in condemning the assassination of Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto:
Earlier to

Danellandia proposes all organizations and individuals that fight against weapons and for peace to join forces and to ask Unicef to start a case before the International Court of Justice of the United Nations against the weapons industry.
Why Unicef? Because its aim is to make a better world for a

Lahore 07 December 2007: The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan calls upon all members of civil society to observe the Universal Human Rights Day as a "black day". The worst human rights abuses, in the history of the country, were recorded in 2007. The rights of ordinary people have been violated b

The daughter of a British imam is living under police protection after receiving death threats from her father for converting to Christianity.
The 31-year-old, whose father is the leader of a mosque in Lancashire, has moved house an astonishing 45 times after relatives pledged to hunt her down and

Pakistan; December 7, 2007. U.S. human rights activists Medea Benjamin and Tighe Barry were arrested in Lahore, Pakistan at 8:30pm on Wednesday, December 4 after attending a student rally at the Lahore Press Club. Upon leaving the Club in the company of several journalists, the car they were driving

Islamabad: December 4, 2007. A girl in Punjab province became victim of an honour killing when she was axed to death by her father and close relatives for allegedly having an affair with a boy from her locality.
The girl was killed after her father, Farooq Khan Baloch, became suspicious that his d

Jakarta: December 4, 2007. 19 years in prison for three Islamic terrorists guilt of having decapitated three young Christians in Indonesia. The crime took place in 2005 in Poso in Central Sulawesi. Yesterday a court in South Jakarta condemned Wiwin Kalahe alias Rahman to 19 years in prison; his acc

Israel: November 28, 2007. (JP) The heads of three major evangelical Christian organizations based in Jerusalem on Tuesday criticized the proposed division of Jerusalem as part of a peace treaty between Israel and the Palestinians, saying such a move would severely restrict freedom of worship in the

Ankara: November 26, 2007. The trial of seven people accused of murdering three employees of protestant bookshop Zirve, in Malatya south east Turkey last April, has been adjourned to January 14th.
The trial was adjourned as the defence attorneys asked for time to prepare their defence.
Represent

Riyadh (AsiaNews) – The young Saudi women condemned to prison and 200 lashes is an adulteress who "provoked the attack" of her rapists because she was "indecently dressed". That is the conclusion of the Saudi Minister for Justice in an official declaration reported today by the Saudi news agency S

NEW DELHI, INDIA (ANS) -- At least four cases of Christian persecution are being reported every week of this year from across India, according to statistics compiled from dependable sources by Dr. John Dayal, member of the National Integration Council, and others actively monitoring the situation.

Sargodha, Pakistan, Nov 24, 2007. Rays of Development Organization (ROD) observed International Day of Children with the motto "Save the Children and secure the future", on Nov 24th, at St Patrick's High School Gillwala, Sargodha. Coordinator Child Rights Committee (CRC) SPARC and Advocacy Network S