EGYPT. 7 May 2003. Naglaa, a Christian convert from Islam, and her husband Malak have been held in prison since mid-February in an effort to force Naglaa to give up her Christian faith and return to Islam.

Naglaa and her husband Malak Gawargios Fahmy were arrested at the airport as they tried t

BANGLADESH. 7 May 2003Christian evangelist becomes Bangladesh's first martyr in modern times following attack by at least seven Muslim extremists armed with knives.

Just after midnight, early in the morning of 24 April Hridoy Roy was returning home after showing a film version of Luke's Gospel.

The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20500

Dear Mr. President:
As president of Christian Freedom International, an interdenominational Christian human rights organization active around the world, I am writing to you to express my concerns for Iraq's mi

Bangkok. May 2. Focus on the Global South (FOCUS) in a press release said that Peace activists representing anti-war movements from all over the world are set to converge in Jakarta, Indonesia
from May 19 to 21 in to plan for its next moves. Entitled "Iraq and the Global Peace Movement:

What

Iran. April 23. In mid-April the conservative Guardian Council of Iran once again rejected a Parliamentary bill on equal diyeh, or blood-price, for non-Muslim Iranian nationals. This effectively affirms that the life of a Muslim is worth more than that of a Christian or other non-Muslim in accordan

Cornwall, Canada. April 27. The prominent peace campaigner, writer, poet and critic writer, d. Stephen Gill in a letter to Rev. Mark Harding have written that.

Dear Brother Mark Hardy:

I appreciate your continuous struggle to protect the beauty of human rights that the fundamentalists try to

Canada. April 27. Rev. Mark Harding, on behalf of The Association of Christian Evangelists of

Canada, in a press release have said " Dear friends it is with great sadness that I have to tell

you, that the AUD management has not allowed us to have our conference there. It seems that once

Washington DC. April 25. The Policy Institute for Religion and State, is working with, hard line political parties in many countries to moderate their social and political views through number of ways. We believe, showing the advantages of having a plural, liberal democratic system with free market

JORDAN. 14 April 2003. A court in Jordan has said that it will be enforcing an earlier order that Siham, a Christian widow, should be arrested and her children taken from her to be raised as Muslims.

The latest developments in Siham's case (received in March from Middle East Concern) are twofold.

TURKMENISTAN. 15 April 2003. Turkmenistan's secret police, the National Security Committee, have been taking Christian children from their classrooms and interrogating them about "internal church life and their Christian education in their families" in the city of Balkanabad, western Turkmenistan ac

Cairo. 16 April 2003. Reports have reached Barnabas Fund of an attack on a Christian center on 5 April by elements of the Egyptian army, commanded by a high-ranking officer.

Soldiers attacked the Patmos Center, some 30 kilometers east of Cairo, on 5 April, who came with armored vehicles, tear-gas

The oldest American-born missionary serving in India went to be with the Lord last week. Maxton Strong, born in Ohio in 1915, went to be with the Lord on Wednesday, April 2 in Banbassa, India. He served the Lord over 62 years in India, his adopted country. He was 88.

Strong graduated from Oklahom

EGYPT. 3 April 2003. The church in Assiut, Upper Egypt, received notification in March that permission had been granted to demolish and rebuild their building. However, after demolishing their old building and laying new foundations the local government withdrew their building licence.

The con

THE PHILIPPINES. 9 April 2003 On Tuesday 25 March dozens of rebels stopped a Christian lorry-driver and his helper, and then shot and killed them. Five Christians were killed by Islamic rebels in the town of M'Lang on Wednesday 26 March. More violence followed on Monday 31 March, wounding 12 Chris

Berlin. April 4. The refounding of the Russian Evangelical Alliance took place in Rumyantsevo near Moscow on April 2. The step was supported by the vast majority of the more than 150 participants stemming from over 40 churches, organisations, associations, missions and local alliances. A final const