Edmonds, WA. May 22. Rev. Ndaba Mazabane, president of the Association of Evangelicals in Africa (AEA), was named Chairman of the International Council of World Evangelical Alliance. The appointment took place during WEA?s recent Council meetings May 7-10 at Mulberry House in High Ongar, U.K.

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NOIDA, India, May 16 - The musicians were playing, the 2,000 guests were dining, the Hindu priest was preparing the ceremony and the bride was dressed in red, her hands and feet festively painted with henna.

Then, the bride's family says, the groom's family moved in for the kill. The dowry of two

Washington DC. May 14, 2003.The Federation of Indian American Christian Organizations of North America (FIACONA)ina press release have invited all to attend a Briefing by Mr. Harsh Mander is cosponsored by FIACONA along with other orgnaizations in Washington area.

Mr. Mander, a Hindu by faith,

Rev Fernando Alconga has been found guilty of "Abusing Islam, and Christian missionary activity", but has been given a suspended sentence.

Fernando Piedad Alconga, a Filipino Christian serving in the United Arab Emirates, was arrested for distributing Christian literature on 12 November 2002. Af

LEBANON. 8 May 2003. A Jordanian convert to Christianity has been killed by a bomb planted outside the home of a missionary couple in Tripoli, North Lebanon.

Initially the Police stated that Jamil Ahmad al-Rifai, 28, had himself planted the bomb; but it is now apparent that he was killed when com

IRAQ. 8 May 2003. 700,000 Christians fear the establishment of an Islamic state governed by Shari'ah.

The political and constitutional future of Iraq is an immediate concern for Iraqi Christians. According to Archbishop Sleiman of Baghdad, "If the influence and pressure of extremist groups, wh

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.