A Burmese pastor has been describing how the military regime made him tear down his orphanage stone by stone, forcing the children in his care to live in a tent – in the ruins of their former home.

Before pulling his orphanage down Pastor Stephen held a funeral service for it – in the hope that his work for the children might be resurrected.

“The time that we dismantled the building it was like the funeral service, because we have no shelter for our children. We invited some pastors and they prayed for us. And then we begin to dismantle the building.

Cairo, Aug. 10, 2007 – Egyptian state security agents have arrested 2 Christian community leaders in Cairo, Christian Solidarity International (CSI) reports, saying that the arrests “are part of Egypt’s alarming and growing trend of state-sponsored persecution of Christians.”

Adel Fawzy Faltas and Peter Ezzat Mounir– members of the Canadian-based Middle East Christian Association (MECA)– were being held at police headquarters in Cairo, CSI reported.

Islamabad, Aug 11 : Christians in Peshawar are living in fear after receiving anonymous letters threatening suicide attacks on their localities if they did not convert to Islam, said a Member National Assembly (MNA) belonging to minority community.

MNA Pervez Masih MNA belonging to the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal (MMA) disclosed in the National assembly that the Christians living in various localities in Peshawar had received hand written letters in which they had been asked to quit their religion.

He said the letter titled ‘Maut Ki Dastak’ (final call), had slogans like Islam Zindabad, Jiha

DELHI, INDIA :– new Commissioner of the Delhi Police, Mr. Y.S. Dadwal, IPS, has promised sympathetic consideration of the demand that the police have a “single window” approach to the problems of the hundreds of thousands of tribal girls working in the Indian capital of Delhi, many of who have been victims of rape and sexual molestation, as well as physical abuse and financial exploitation.

The was part of gender justice issues brought to his attention by a delegation of Christian leaders who called on him at the Police Headquarters Friday afternoon (August 10).
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LAHORE, PAKISTAN :– The Chief of the All Pakistan Minorities Alliance (APMA) has vowed that he will continue struggling for the rights of Pakistani minorities till last drop of his blood.

Shahbaz Bhatti, the APMA Chief, made this statement on Friday, August 10 while talking to ANS by phone.

Bhatti, who was optimistic on the turnout of the rally the APMA is staging in Lahore, the provincial capital of province Punjab of Pakistan on Saturday, August 11, said he was expecting a huge number of people from the minorities communities including Christians, Hindus, Sikhs and Parsees at the ra

On July 8, 2007, two pastors, Mohan and Fernandez, were falsely accused of causing communal tensions and then arrested. While they were sharing the Gospel on Sunday afternoon at 6th crossroads of Wilson Garden in Bangalore, a group of people from Ramasaynar Karnataka surrounded them. The attackers forced the two men to go to the police station.

At the police station the attackers complained that the two pastors had torn a picture of the Hindu god Ganesha. Police then arrested the pastors under sections 153A, 295A, and 34 of the Indian Penal Code.

BUDAPEST/MOSCOW :– A Russian Baptist Pastor spent another Sunday, August 5, without his family after he was deported from Turkmenistan for his church activities, fellow Christians and human rights watchers said.

Baptist pastor Yevgeni Potolov was put on a train Russia, July 7, after seven weeks in detention, said Forum 18, a major human rights group. “Pastor Potolov’s deportation separates him from his wife and seven children.

Karnataka: authorities back anti-Christian violence. Sacred Heart Junior College is target of threats and attacks by Hindu extremists. Thousands march to protest the violence.

The principal of the Sacred Heart Junior College makes the claim after his school becomes the target of threats and attacks by Hindu extremists. Thousands take part in a march to protest the violence against the school.