Posted on January 2nd, 2008 by Anthony K. Valley
Murder plot for Orthodox priest Ramazan Arkan thwarted by Turkish polish.
ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkish police have foiled a plot to murder a priest, in a case that recalls other attacks this year against Christians in Muslim but secular Turkey, newspapers reported on Monday.
Police in the coastal resort of Antalya detained a young man on Sunday [...]
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Posted on June 12th, 2006 by Anthony K. Valley
Christianity is growing in China. That’s good news.
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tags: china, christian post, christianpost.com, god, religion, faith, christian
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Filed under: By Example, Church and State, Persecution
Posted on December 9th, 2005 by Anthony K. Valley
Thanks to the intervention of Barlett Mayor Keith McDonald, the Barlett Branch of the Memphis Central Library System have religious figures in its nativity scene.
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tags: christ, christmas, keith mcdonald, memphis, tennessee, wmcstations.com, worldnow, bartlett
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Posted on November 25th, 2005 by Anthony K. Valley
A U.S. Senate measure that would ban torture of war prisoners has the support of Utah religious leaders.
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tags: church of jesus christ of latter-day saints, ksl television & radio, ksl.com, muslim, senate, torture, religion
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Posted on November 12th, 2005 by Anthony K. Valley
“Despite the risks, some Christians practice their faith - sometimes with official sanction, often at great risk.”
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tags: north korea, voanews.com, voice of america, crime, faith, law, persecution, punishment, religion, christian
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Posted on October 27th, 2005 by Anthony K. Valley
By simply using this law, satanists and witches can complain about priests making their beliefs seem evil. Causing any hatred against any people of any religious faith carries a penalty of a seven-year jail sentence.
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tags: faith, racial and religious hatred bill, times newspapers ltd., timesonline.co.uk, uk, [...]
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Filed under: Ethics, Persecution, Society and Culture
Posted on October 18th, 2005 by Anthony K. Valley
Huichol mobs wielding machetes and clubs in western Mexico’s Jalisco state have expelled 80 evangelicals from Agua Fria village, threatening to burn the Christians and refusing to allow their return unless they recant their faith. The mobs reacted against evangelicals’ shunning of Huichol native religion, which encourages taking hallucinogenic peyote.
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Posted on October 18th, 2005 by Anthony K. Valley
Cuban police recently raided a home in the Cuban city of Colon and confiscated what officials later called “subversive and dangerous.” But the contraband wasn’t drugs, or pornography, or bomb-making instructions. What police confiscated were printed Gospels of John and a small printing press.
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Filed under: Church and State, Government, Persecution
Posted on October 18th, 2005 by Anthony K. Valley
A coalition of groups opposing slavery in Sudan are protesting President Bush’s decision to reward the radical Islamic regime in Khartoum for alleged measures to curb human trafficking.
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tags: islam, khartoum, sudan, worldnetdaily, worldnetdaily.com, slavery, bush
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Filed under: Ethics, Government, Persecution
Posted on October 12th, 2005 by Anthony K. Valley
Iraq (MNN) — While the world waits for Iraqis to go to the polls on Saturday, Christians are fearful for their safety. This week, Global Advance is holding an International Summit in Dallas, Texas where leaders from 35 countries will gather together. However, one pastor from Iraq will be staying home.
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Posted on October 7th, 2005 by Anthony K. Valley
Malaysia (MNN) — The superior court of Malaysia has dealt a blow to religious freedom in that nation.
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tags: christianity, islam, mnnonline.org, mission network news, muslim, conversion, freedom, malaysia
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Posted on October 7th, 2005 by Anthony K. Valley
As the Senate prepares an investigation, the U.S. State Department is demanding Saudi Arabia account for its distribution of hate-filled, jihad propaganda through American mosques.
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tags: islam, senate, worldnetdaily.com, jihad
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Filed under: Persecution, Perspectives
Posted on September 29th, 2005 by Anthony K. Valley
MADRID – An imam who wrote a book on how to beat your wife without leaving marks on her body has been ordered by a judge in Spain to study the country’s constitution.
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tags: mohamed kamal mustafa, news world communications, spain, washtimes.com, women in islam, oppression, violence, [...]
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Filed under: Ethics, Persecution, Society and Culture
Posted on September 22nd, 2005 by Anthony K. Valley
A handbook that offers advice to bloggers who want to protect themselves from recrimination and censors has been released by Reporters Without Borders
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tags: bbc, bbc.co.uk, reporters without borders, censorship, handbook, media, blogs
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Filed under: Government, Persecution
Posted on September 14th, 2005 by Anthony K. Valley
Vietnamese authorities burned more than 10 homes of tribal Christians who refused to deny their faith, a U.S. persecution monitor reported
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tags: faith, god, vietnam, worldnetdaily, worldnetdaily.com, persecution, christian
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Filed under: Church and State, Persecution
Posted on September 11th, 2005 by Anthony K. Valley
Sept. 11, 2005 — In an apparent Sept. 11 communiqué broadcast on ABC News, an al Qaeda operative threatens new attacks against cities in the U.S. and Australia.
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tags: abc news internet ventures, abcnews, adam gadahn, islam, los angeles, melbourne, terrorism, al qaeda
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Filed under: History, Persecution
Posted on May 21st, 2005 by Anthony K. Valley
Reverend Pourmand is scheduled to appear before an Islamic court on charges of proselytising and apostasy and could get the death penalty and be hanged. Hamid Pourmand, a Protestant clergyman who was born a Muslim, was moved from Tehran’s Evin Prison in an armoured car two days ago, May 16, to his home town of [...]
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Posted on April 30th, 2005 by Anthony K. Valley
Two Americans have been arrested in Malaysia, accused of handing out Christian pamphlets to Muslims in a country where constitutionally protected religious freedom periodically collides with Islam’s stance on apostasy. A Royal Malaysian Police spokesman said Thursday the two men had been apprehended while handing out pamphlets outside the mosque in Putrajaya, Malaysia’s new administrative [...]
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Posted on March 27th, 2005 by Anthony K. Valley
It’s quick, easy and free! Just the click of a button will send a bible to a persecuted Christian.Right now, 200 million Christians are living under restriction for their faith in Jesus Christ. Most do not even have their own copy of the Bible, the one weapon they must have in order to be [...]
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Posted on March 25th, 2005 by Anthony K. Valley
The Alta Vista Shopping Center in Jounieh, Lebanon was destroyed by a bomb that killed three people Wednesday.JOUNIEH, Lebanon - Just hours after a bomb killed three people and heavily damaged a shopping mall in Lebanon’s Christian heartland, defiant residents unfurled a giant Lebanese flag on the wrecked building, and shop owners began working to [...]
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