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• Jan 21, 2010

  Christians Most Hit by Religious Freedom Violations in Indonesia

  A moderate Muslim research institute focusing on interfaith issues in Indonesia reported 35 cases of government violations of religious freedom – including 28 against Christians – and 93 instances of community intolerance of churches in 2009.

• Jan 19, 2010

  Forced Recantations of Faith Continue in Vietnam

  A Vietnamese man violently forced to recant his fledgling Christian faith faces pressure from authorities and clansmen to prove his return to traditional Hmong belief by sacrificing to ancestors next month.

• Jan 8, 2010

  Iran Arrests, Coerces Christians over Christmas Season

  A wave of arrests hit Iranian house churches during the Christmas season, leaving at least five Christian converts in detention across northern Iran, including the mother of an ailing 10-year-old girl.

• Jan 4, 2010

  Muslim Mob in Pakistan Wounds Christian Family

• Jan 1, 2010

  Christians in India Faced Three Attacks per Week in 2009

  After unprecedented large-scale attacks on Christians in the previous two years, 2009 brought hardly any respite as the minority faith faced an average of more than three violent attacks a week.

• Dec 30, 2009

  Church Bomber in Nepal Repents

  The leader of a militant Hindu extremist group says contact with Christians in prison had led him to repent of bombing a Catholic church here in May 2008.

• Dec 30, 2009

  Accused Pakistani Christian Says Muslims Tried to Coerce Him

  A Pakistani Christian accused of killing a Muslim during the Aug. 1 Islamist attack on Christians in Gojra said he was arrested and tortured only because he was a key witness of the mob assault that left at least seven Christians burned to death.

• Dec 29, 2009

  Turkish Court Seeks to Link Murder of Christians to 'Cage Plan'

  Malatya\'s Third Criminal Court took further steps to connect the murders of three Christians in southeastern Turkey to a Turkish military plan to destabilize the pro-Islamic government.

• Dec 23, 2009

  Christians in Vietnam Hold Another Historic Celebration

  For the second time in 10 days, Protestant history was made in Vietnam Sunday when 12,000 people gathered for a Christmas rally here.

• Dec 15, 2009

  Unprecedented Christmas Gathering Held in Vietnam

  History was made in communist Vietnam Friday evening. Christian sources reported that some 40,000 people gathered in a hastily constructed venue in Ho Chi Minh City to worship God, celebrate Christmas, and hear a gospel message – an event of unprecedented magnitude in Vietnam.