// Tuesday, Jun-23-2009 by Editor Just as Maldivian citizens do not have the right to religious freedom - Sunni Islam in the state-approved form is the only permitted faith - migrant workers too are denied this right. [ full story ]
// Thursday, Jun-18-2009 by Editor Police invaded the Sunday service of the Agape Baptist congregation in Vietnam’s Hung Yen Province on June 7 and beat worshippers, including women, and arrested a pastor and an elder. [ full story ]
// Wednesday, Jun-17-2009 by Editor PERSECUTION ESCALATES IN VIETNAM Across all Vietnam persecution against both Catholics and Protestants is escalating. Communist authorities have recently demolished two Catholic monasteries in the south and an historic Protestant church in the Central Highlands. In the north Catholics continue to be harassed in Hanoi where the evangelical religious liberty advocate Nguyen van Dai also remains incarcerated. Indigenous Degar house church leader Puih H'Bat, a mother of four whose husband is a refugee in the USA, was arrested in April 2008 and her fate is still unknown. This is of grave concern as Vietnamese ethnic and religious hatred of Degars is intensive and several have been tortured to death. Vietnam seeks to present an international facade of religious freedom but the reality is entirely different. Please pray. [ full story ]
// Tuesday, Jun-16-2009 by Editor JIANGSU, CHINA (ANS) -- Chengnan Christian Church, a registered Three-Self Patriotic Movement (TSPM) church in Tinghu district, Yancheng municipality of Jiangsu province in China, continues to experience persecution by Yancheng municipal government authorities. [ full story ]
// Monday, Jun-15-2009 by Editor BEIJING, CHINA (ANS) -- ChinaAid is reporting that the Chinese government has launched a major crackdown against human rights attorneys, canceling or refusing to renew the licenses of at least 21 attorneys who have challenged the Communist government's abuse of Chinese citizens. [ full story ]
// Tuesday, Jun-9-2009 by Editor BEIJING, CHINA (ANS) -- A Chinese security official threatened to strangle a pastor and break his legs during a beating after arresting him. [ full story ]
// Wednesday, Jun-3-2009 by Editor Lebanon will go to the polls on Sunday 7 June for general elections that have both domestic and regional significance. [ full story ]
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