Focus: COLOMBIA (7/5/2008)
by Staff Source: www.opendoorsusa.org COLOMBIA: * A series of death threats against a pastor in a working-class Medellín neighborhood prompted him to abandon his home and ministry last May and flee with his family to Colombia’s capital. For three years, 31-year-old Wilmer Ribón pastored
Focus: INDIA (7/4/2008)
by Staff Source: www.opendoorsusa.org INDIA: * Hindutva (Hindu nationalist) extremists belonging to the Vishwa Hindu Parishad, Bajrang Dal and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on June 22 attacked a Christian prayer meeting, beating participants and the pastor in Krishnagar, Dehra D...
Focus: TURKEY (7/3/2008)
by Staff Source: www.opendoorsusa.org TURKEY: * Twenty months after two Turkish Christians went on trial for allegedly “insulting Turkishness and Islam,” a local criminal court has requested a Justice Ministry review of one of three charges in the case. On Tuesday (June 24), Silivri Criminal Cou...
Focus: IRAQ (6/28/2007)
by Staff Source: www.compassdirect.org
A letter issued by Muqtada al-Sadr’s Mahdi army to Christians in Baghdad orders Christian women to veil them selves or face grave consequences.
For the Christian Assyrians (also known as Chaledans and Syriacs) in Baghdad, the imposition of Sharia is coming from both Sunnis and Shiites. I...
Focus: MEXICO (6/26/2007)
by Staff Source: www.compassdirect.org
More than five weeks after town bosses in Los Pozos, Chiapas state signed an agreement to restore water lines cut off from Christians since January, the protestants still rely on dirty, distant wells an puddles for washing and drinking.
The April 23rd agreement calls for the autocratic r...
Focus: GERMANY (6/24/2007)
by Staff Source: www.compassdirect.org
Muslim converts fear for their lives - not only in predominantly Muslim countries but also in Germany.
Bishop Wolfgang Huber, the leader of the main line Protestant Churches, is deeply concerned about increasing threats to the lives of former Muslims, who have embraced the Christian fait...
Riots against spiralling food costs in several world capitals call
attention to a severe hunger problem affecting more than 800 million of the world's poorest people. The President of the World Bank warned that 33 countries are at risk of social unrest because of rising food prices....
COLOMBIA: * A series of death threats against a pastor in a working-class Medellín neighborhood prompted him to abandon his home and ministry last May and flee with his family to Colombia’s capital. For three years, 31-year-old Wilmer Ribón pastored 
A letter issued by Muqtada al-Sadr’s Mahdi army to Christians in Baghdad orders Christian women to veil them selves or face grave consequences.
For the Christian Assyrians (also known as Chaledans and Syriacs) in Baghdad, the imposition of Sharia is coming from both Sunnis and Shiites. I...
