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• Nov 4, 2011

  Police-Sponsored Thugs Attack Church in Central Vietnam

  Thugs said to be doing the bidding of local authorities attacked a pastor and his family with iron bars and wooden clubs in central Vietnam on Oct. 23, seriously injuring the heads and arms of the church leader’s father and other relatives, sources said.

• Nov 3, 2011

  Massacre in Egypt Said to Cost Government All Credibility

• Nov 3, 2011

  Burma Army Targets Christian Civilians in War on Insurgents

  A recent attack on Christians and church buildings by Burmese soldiers in Kachin state showed that Christian civilians are targeted in the military offensive against insurgents.

• Oct 25, 2011

  Christian Mother of Five in Nigeria Killed

  Nigerian soldiers summoned to stop inter-religious fighting between Muslim and Christian youths last week shot and killed a Christian mother of five in the Yelwa area of Bauchi city, according to family and church sources.

• Oct 25, 2011

  Indonesian Church Denied Site as New Bill Threatens Freedoms

  The ban on street meetings forced church members to worship at an alternative location on Sunday. Amid the stand-off, religious freedom for groups such as the Yasmin church would be dramatically reduced under a “Religious Tolerance Bill” under consideration by the Ministry of Religious Affairs, critics of the proposal say. A constitutional debate is raging in Indonesia over the bill.

• Oct 24, 2011

  Church Faces Increasing Hostility in Sudan

  Emboldened by government calls for a Sudan based on Islamic law since the secession of South Sudan, Muslims long opposed to a church near Khartoum have attacked Christians trying to finish constructing their building, sources said.

• Oct 23, 2011

  Pakistani Mother Condemned for 'Blasphemy' Allegedly Beaten

  A female prison officer assigned to provide security for a Christian mother of five who was sentenced to death on “blasphemy” charges beat her earlier this month, sources said.

• Oct 23, 2011

  Maldives Arrests, Deports Indian Teacher for Owning Bible

  Police in the island nation of Maldives held a teacher from India for about 15 days before deporting him on Oct. 14 for having a Bible in his house, a source said.

• Oct 23, 2011

  Islamic Extremists in Somalia Behead 17-Year-Old Christian

  Militants from the Islamic extremist al Shabaab beheaded a 17-year-old Somali Christian near Mogadishu last month, a journalist in the Somali capital told Compass.

• Oct 18, 2011

  Islamic Extremist Group Kills Another Christian in Nigeria

  Violence-weary Christians in Borno state have been further upset to learn of the murder of a Nigerian evangelist by Boko Haram less than three months after the Islamic extremist group killed a Maiduguri pastor.