Marr Balochaan, Pakistan, Jan 27th (ROD): A Christian youth Francis Nadeem 15, son of Sadeeq Masih is believed to be kidnapped and allegedly sold for illegal human organ extraction and transplantation, here at Marr Balochaan, a village near Nankanna District of Punjab Province in Pakistan. Where a

Mumbai: January 26, 2008. (AsiaNews) - Our founding Fathers had enshrined religious freedom in our constitution making India a Sovereign Democratic Republic. It a matter of great disappointment that certain fringe elements unleashed a wave of violence against the Christians in Orissa.
I am deeply

The Taliban-style intimidation of Afghan newspapers came to the surface after a journalist was sentenced to death for distributing an article deemed to have "insulted Islam".
Sayed Parwez Kaambakhsh`s crime was to have passed around a piece taken from a website questioning why Muslim women cannot

Dhamtaree: January 17, 2008. After Orissa, there are now reports of another attack on Christians. The latest one took place in Dhamtaree district of Chattisgarh.
Workers from a Hindu organisation going by the name of Dharamsena attacked a health camp being conducted by christian missionaries.
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Rome, Jan. 7, 2008 (CWNews.com) - In a year-end account of missionary deaths, the Fides news service has named 21 Church workers who died for the faith in 2007.
The Fides report lists the priests, religious, and seminarians who were killed during the year. The report notes that the number is sligh

BHUBANESWAR: January 7, 2008. At least seven teenage girls were missing in eastern India where Christian-Hindu violence left over 9 dead and more than 60 churches damaged, a state government official said Sunday.
Enlarge this picture7 female Christian students missing in violence-hit Orissa, says o

DHAKA: (ANS) -- Bangladeshi Christians have condemned the assassination of former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto, the first woman elected to lead an Islamic state.
A story on UCA News (www.ucanews.com) reported that on Dec. 31, a five-member team representing Catholic and Protestant commu

Islamabad: January 5, 2008. World Minorities Alliance and Pakistan Human Right Party chief J. Salik held a protest rally from Press club Islamabad to Sarena Hotel.
J. Salik was hoisting European Union Flag for supports to Christian to elect their true representatives.
Mrs. Marry J. Salik was hold

Sargodha: Jan 3rd (ROD): Rights and advocacy organizations of the Civil Society of Sargodha massed at Katcherry Bazaar, Sargodha to pay tribute to the martyred of democracy, Benazir Bhutto under the aegis of Taangh Wasaib Organization (TWO) by lighting up the candles.
Rays of Development, Organi

USA; January 3, 2008. Christian broadcaster Pat Robertson, who has made predicting the future an annual tradition, predicts a recession and a major stock market upheaval are on their way for the United States.
Aside from a recession this year, Robertson suggested Wednesday that Americans will be pa

UK: The assassination of former Prime Minister and opposition leader Benazir Bhutto is "devastating news" for Pakistan's oppressed Christian population. This was the reaction of CLAAS, an organisation that fights for the rights of Pakistan's 3.5 million-strong Christian minority.
Nasir Saeed, dire

Malabar: (SVM News) December 30, 2007: Underground house church of Salem Voice Ministries demolished by Muslim extremists at Sunnam Potty in Malabar on December 29.
A mob of 10 to 15 people came by cars and vans with spade, picks axe, iron bar and other tools and weapons and totally demolished the

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