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At last report, Pastor Ashish Kumar Muna, 25, was in a jail in Rourkela district since November 15, after a Hindu fundamentalist belonging to the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) lodged a complaint accusing him of “conversions” in Udit Nagar police station in Jhirpani Taluka.
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The Rev. John Thomas, president of the US United Church of Christ, has been arrested in a protest about the Iraq war outside the White House. Thomas and another denominational official, the Rev. Linda Jaramillo, had been trying to deliver to the White House on 10 October what they called a "pastoral letter" that contained 60 000 signatures calling for an end to the military action in Iraq.
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Ajay Topno, a missionary with a Christian media organization, was shot and killed in the Ranchi district of Jharkland state on September 19 for converting three tribal families to Christianity, according to a September 28 report from Compass Direct. Local Christians reported that villagers had been angered by the recent conversion of these families to Christianity.
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The Christian Post reports that young Americans today are more skeptical and resistant to Christianity than were people of the same age just a decade ago. A new study released Monday from The Barna Group shows that negative perceptions toward the faith have outweighed the positive...
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A soldier detonated a hand grenade Thursday at an evening worship service, killing himself and five children and wounding four others. The reason for the incident is unknown at this time. According to Pastors Francis Ayul and Saphano Riak Chol, leaders of FEBAC-Sudan, the newly-formed association of evangelical Baptist churches...
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The World Council of Churches has warned of an "exodus" by the small Christian community of Iraq and said the country's leaders and foreign governments need to install the rule of law and restore a multi-cultural balance in society.
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More people in the world are living in cities than ever before, and this is leading to renewed interest in religion, and confounding those who predicted a growth of secularisation, according to a new UN report.
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At least 4,000 Christians from across India were temporarily arrested in New Delhi yesterday in protest against the federal government’s silence over increasing attacks on Christians. The rally, “Stop Violence on Christians,” began at 10 a.m. on May 29 and was attended by about 5,000 people.
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Christians in North-West Frontier Province in Pakistan are facing fresh threats, including a message signed by the “Taliban’s Detonative Department”, after rejecting demands to convert to Islam.
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A local Christian source, who requested anonymity, said that Hindu fundamentalist groups have been running a hate campaign against Christians, using the local newspapers, which normally have their reach limited to towns and cities. This anti-Christian campaign has been mainly limited to urban areas and the majority of the population lives in rural areas and did not participate.
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International Christian Concern (ICC) has just learned that the three Christians who were martyred in Turkey last week were horribly tortured for three hours prior to being killed, as details continue to leak out. As difficult and sorrowful it is to learn more, we believe that we must expose the truly hellish nature of this attack for what it is.
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As millions marked Martin Luther King Day across the United States yesterday, American church leaders urged their congregations to join Christians and others in their communities to "to exercise common witness and common service as together we seek to dismantle racism and, in so doing, to be the voice and presence of God's love in the world."
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Defying some perceptions of widening divisions between Christians and followers of Islam, hundreds of Muslims have joined a sit-in in the Indian capital organized by Christian groups fighting discrimination meted out to Dalits, considered by many in the country still to be "untouchable" citizens.
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The Church hardly communicates with the youth of today and even in "so-called Christian countries" the majority of young people are Bible illiterate but well informed of the latest MTV programmes, says the head of the World Council of Churches.
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International Christian Concern (ICC) has learned that a drunken mob of Muslims attacked a Christian congregation in Lahore Pakistan on November 12 with guns and clubs. While no one was seriously injured, it highlights the constant hatred and persecution that Christians live under in Pakistan.
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