Focus: INDONESIA (9/4/2008)
by Staff Source: wwww.opendoorsusa.org INDONESIA: * The manager of a campground in East Jakarta this week asked staff members and 600 female students from a theological college who had taken refuge there to leave and pay stiff fees. Officials had sent the students to the facility after a violent ...
Focus: LAOS (9/3/2008)
by Staff Source: wwww.opendoorsusa.org LAOS: * The chief of Boukham village in Savannakhet province, Laos today ordered the families of three detained Christians in Savannakhet province to sign documents renouncing their faith. Human Rights Watch for Lao Religious Freedom reported that the family m...
Focus: INDIA (9/1/2008)
by Staff Source: wwww.opendoorsusa.org INDIA: * Three more deaths were reported today in the eastern state of Orissa, where a spate of anti-Christian violence began after suspected Maoists murdered Hindu leader Swami Laxmanananda Saraswati and four of his disciples on Saturday (Aug. 23). The numb...
Focus: TURKEY (8/30/2008)
by Staff Source: wwww.opendoorsusa.org TURKEY: * The five young Turkish men accused of torturing and killing three Christians in Malatya last year may have been incited by members of a vast political conspiracy allegedly responsible for multiple murders in recent years. The 10th hearing on the mu...
Focus: MALAYSIA (8/29/2008)
by Staff Source: wwww.opendoorsusa.org MALAYSIA: * The Ministry of Home Affairs has issued a warning to a Catholic weekly demanding an explanation for articles that did not “focus” on religion and for a report that allegedly degraded Islam entitled, “America and Jihad – where do they stand?” Fath...
INDONESIA: * The manager of a campground in East Jakarta this week asked staff members and 600 female students from a theological college who had taken refuge there to leave and pay stiff fees. Officials had sent the students to the facility after a violent ...
