Two men and three women from southern Laos were jailed on Sunday, March 25 for attending a worship service. They were in Boukham village worshiping when authorities interrupted the service and took them into custody on charges of “leading religious movements without official approval.” Human Rights Watch for Lao Religious Freedom has been asking the [...]
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Laotian Christians jailed for attending worship meeting
Posted by Harry A. Gaylord on March 25, 2012
http://sunandshield.wordpress.com/2012/03/25/laotian-christians-jailed-for-attending-worship-meeting/
Turkmenistan frees pastor, other religious prisoners
Pastor Ilmurad Nuriev of Turkmenistan was freed along with 229 other religious prisoners who were arrested and imprisoned in a labor camp. Nuriev, pastor of Light to the World Protestant Church in the Mary region of Turkmenistan, was arrested in August 2010 and found guilty in October 2010 of trumped up charges of swindling, then [...]
Posted by Harry A. Gaylord on February 20, 2012
http://sunandshield.wordpress.com/2012/02/20/turkmenistan-frees-pastor-other-religious-prisoners/
Think Buddhists are peace-loving & kind? This may change your mind
I have done posts in the past about the false teachings of Buddhism and got responses that Buddhists only seek peace and are kind to others, even if the religion of others is different from theirs. But they pretend as if Buddhists never persecute others when in fact they do persecute people of other religions. [...]
Posted by Harry A. Gaylord on January 2, 2012
http://sunandshield.wordpress.com/2012/01/02/think-buddhists-are-peace-loving-kind-this-may-change-your-mind/
Christians feel rejection in Britain
According to a recent poll released in Britain by Premier Christian Media, Britain Christians are feeling as if they are being pushed out of public life. The organization has done several polls over the last few years and polls done by other organizations seem to reflect the same thing. In 2009 a poll showed that [...]
Posted by Harry A. Gaylord on November 11, 2011
http://sunandshield.wordpress.com/2011/11/11/christians-feel-rejection-in-britain/
Iran’s religious leaders admit gospel is growing
Religious leaders in Iran have acknowledged in their public speeches that more young people and families in their nation are being exposed to, and are accepting, the gospel of Jesus Christ. And it has given them grave concern. The Iranian Constitution states in its Article 13 “…Christians, Jews and Zoroastrian minorities are the only recognized [...]
Posted by Harry A. Gaylord on October 21, 2011
http://sunandshield.wordpress.com/2011/10/21/irans-religious-leaders-admit-gospel-is-growing/
Two Pakistani Christians attacked after refusing to convert
Six Pakhtoon youths in Karachi, Pakistan attacked two Christian young men who were riding a motorcycle down the street. The Muslim Pakhtoons stopped the two Christians in the street and questioned them about who they were and what their religious beliefs were. When Ishfaq Munawar and his friend Naeem Masih told the six Muslims about their [...]
Posted by Harry A. Gaylord on September 3, 2011
http://sunandshield.wordpress.com/2011/09/03/two-pakistani-christians-attacked-after-refusing-to-convert/
Indian officials ask evangelicals to leave India
The Times of India newspaper reported this week that three American Christian women–Shelly Louise Deeds, a nurse from Pennsylvania, Katelyn Heather Deeds,also from Pennsylvania, and Diane Geen Harrington, a Wisconsin teacher–were approached by Indian authorities and were asked to leave the country. Several Hindu organizations went to the police accusing the women of trying to convert [...]
Posted by Harry A. Gaylord on June 18, 2011
http://sunandshield.wordpress.com/2011/06/18/indian-officials-ask-evangelicals-to-leave-india/
Parable of the unjust judge (shall not God avenge his own?)
Those of us who follow Christian news can see how there is a steady rise in the persecution of Christians all over the world. It has become clear that Satan has “great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time,” [Revelation 12:12]. The number of incidences of persecution can become overwhelming and [...]
Posted by Harry A. Gaylord on June 9, 2011
http://sunandshield.wordpress.com/2011/06/09/parable-of-the-unjust-judge-shall-not-god-avenge-his-own/
Angry Muslim mob attacks village in Pakistan
On the morning of April 16, 2011, an angry mob of Pakistani muslims believed to number in the hundreds attacked the village of Khokarki in the state of Punjab. The village’s citizens, who are Christians, abandoned their homes and fled. The mob gathered in response to an accusation by local muslims that Mushtaq Gill, 60, [...]
Posted by Harry A. Gaylord on April 16, 2011
http://sunandshield.wordpress.com/2011/04/16/angry-muslim-mob-attacks-village-in-pakistan/
Said Musa’s release proves power of prayer backed with action
The Afghan Christian, Said Musa, was suddenly taken off death row and released from prison in Afghanistan. The 45-year-old Musa, an International Red Cross aid worker, was imprisoned last year after a fellow Afghan ratted him out to the authorities as being a convert from Islam to Christianity. He was able to smuggle a letter [...]
Posted by Harry A. Gaylord on February 24, 2011
http://sunandshield.wordpress.com/2011/02/24/said-musas-release-proves-power-of-prayer-backed-with-action/
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