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Church shootings on rise in U.S.
Dec. 15, 2007 - This article shows that there have been 10 church shootings in the last 4 years, including the two in Colorado last week. It warns that church leaders must be prepared to defend their congregations.
- Source: WorldNetDaily
Two Separate Shootings in Colorado Springs Christian Buildings
Dec. 10, 2007 - A young man killed two unsuspecting people at a Youth With A Mission training center in Arvada, Colorado, then drove to Colorado Springs where he killed two more in the parking lot of the New Life Church. There were some 7000 people in the church, but his killing spree was ended when he was shot and killed by an armed security guard.
- Source: Fox
- Colorado Church Gunman Had Grudge Against Christian Group, Cops Say - Fox
- Colorado Church Gunman Sought Revenge After He Was Kicked Out of Missionary Training - Fox
- Hero guard: 'It was me, the gunman, and God' - WorldNetDaily
- Gunman boasted of following 'wickedest man in the world' - WorldNetDaily
Nov. 12 - International Day of Prayer For the Persecuted Church
Nov. 12, 2006 - Links to many organizations that are serving the more than 200 million persecuted Christians in the world!
- Also see: Pray for the Persecuted Church on November 12 - Crosswalk
Teen's testimony of faith unstopped by death
Missionary into Kim Jong-Il's kingdom of religious oppression martyred
Oct. 26, 2006 - Read this inspiring story of a brave Chinese young man who was a bold witness for Christ in North Korea. He was eventually caught, tortured and killed for his faith. Many people turned to Christ because of him, and after his death the work he started in a prison camp continued.
- Source:WorldNetDaily
Persecution is Coming to the West
Oct. 23, 2006 - A declaration from the Ecumenical Confessional Convention in Blankenburg, East Germany, says that an increase of persecution is coming to Western culture. It warns that the trend is a dangerous anti-Christian influence on legislation, academic life and school education. Home-schoolers in Germany are subject to fines and imprisonment. The 20th century was the bloodiest in church history, and the future looks grim.
- According to estimates by human rights organizations, 200 million Christians suffer discrimination for their faith. Every year 170,000 Christians die a martyr’s death.
- Source: Crosswalk
Two Eritrean Christians Tortured to death
Oct. 20, 2006 - Intense persecution of Christians continues in Eritrea. Just after detaining a U.S. citizen and re-imprisoning a Christian singer, thirteen people were arrested for participating in a religious service in a private home. Two of them, Immanuel Andegergesh, 23, and Kibrom Firemichel, 30, were tortured to death in a military camp outside the town of Adi-Quala. The fate of the other 10 is not yet known. For three years in a row Eritrea has been named by the U.S. State Department a “Country of Particular Concern” It is considered one of the worst violators of religious freedom in the world.
- Recently confirmed statistics indicate that at least 1,918 Eritrean citizens are jailed solely for their religious beliefs, without any access to judicial process.
- Source: Crosswalk
Terror suspect contributed to school 'religion guidelines'
Oct. 19, 2006 - "Religious Expression in Public Schools" guidelines issued by President Clinton, lets students pray to Allah, but banishes Christmas.
- Abdurahman Alamoudi, who was president of the American Muslim Council and a supporter of Hamas and Hezbollah, worked with President Clinton and the American Civil Liberties Union when the guidelines, launched by Clinton in 1995.
Since then Alamoudi was arrested for allegedly trying to transport $340,000 to terrorist causes.
- Source: WorldNetDaily
- Student Says Mention of 'Prayer' Enrages Professor - Crosswalk
Christians 'too evangelical' for Christian school
Oct. 13, 2006 - Georgetown University, a Catholic school in Washington D.C., has "disinvited" some evangelical groups like InterVarsity Christian Fellowship from any association with the school because of the evangelical practice of sharing Christ with students. The Alliance Defense Fund has written a letter to the university requesting that they rectify the problem.
- Source: WorldNetDaily
Rosie's View: 'Radical Christians' Same as 9/11 Terrorists
Sept. 14, 2006 - During her new show, "The View," Rosie O'Donnell said, "Radical Christianity is just as threatening as radical Islam in a country like America ..." Randy Sharp, director of special projects for the American Family Association said we should not be surprised by her opinions.
- "It's been a matter of public record for quite some time now," Sharp explained. "Rosie has a well-documented hatred for the war on terrorism, a hatred for our president, and a hatred for the principles of Christianity."
- Source: Crosswalk
Eritrea's Religious Prisoner Count Tops 1,900
Sept. 14, 2006 - In Eritrea there are at least 1,918 Eritrean citizens in prison. They are subject to torture and forced labor because of their religious beliefs. Ninty-five percent of them are Christians. The information comes from Compass International.
- Source: Crosswalk
Afghan Court Dismisses Case vs. Alleged Christian Convert
Mar. 27, 2006 - An Afghanistan court dismissed the apostasy case against Abdul Rahman, who became a Christian in the 1990s. The decision eased tensions with the U.S., but is considered an insult to radical Muslims who want strict Sharia law upheld. Rahman is in danger of being killed by his countrymen, but his faith is strong.
- "If I must die, I will die," Rahman told the Rome daily La Repubblica, which did not interview him directly but channeled questions through a human rights worker who visited him in prison... "Somebody, a long time ago, did it for all of us," in a clear reference to Jesus Christ.
- Source:Fox
- Afghans protest against convert- BBC
- Rahman One of Thousands Awaiting Death Sentence - Crosswalk
- Italy Formally Grants Asylum to Convert - Fox
- German Protestant Leader: Sharia Violates Human Rights - Crosswalk
U.S. Backs Afghan Man Who Converted to Christianity
Mar. 22, 2006 - Responding to hundreds of contacts from concerned Americans, Undersecretary of State Nicholas Burns and department spokesman Sean McCormack asked Afghanistan to conduct a trial for a man accused of apostasy from Islam because he became a Christian there. The U.S. asked Afghanistan to conduct the trial"in a transparent way." Burns said he told Afghan Foreign Minister Abdullah Abdullah, with whom he held talks at the department, that "we would follow the case closely."
- Source:Fox
- Top Muslim clerics: Convert must die - In Our Islam Section
- Congressman to Afghanistan:
'We will not put up with this' - Lantos says possibility of death for Christians 'absolutely unacceptable' for country we freed - WorldNetDaily
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