Tension continues to spread throughout Pakistan’s eastern Punjab province after public announcements that an American preacher burned a Koran. Police struggled to control a mob attempting to destroy a Full Gospel Assembly church in Lahore after clerics in local mosques denounced the incident. Two separate mobs from different mosques chanted anti-government and pro-Islamic slogans as they burned tires in front of…

More than 10,000 Ethiopian Christians are homeless as Muslim militants have murdered at least one Christian and injured scores of others as they burned down 69 church buildings, 30 Christian homes, a Bible school, a Christian orphanage and a church office. “Thousands of Christians have been forced to flee their homes in Western Ethiopia,”  reported western journalist Diane Macedo, who…

A pregnancy care center in New York City across from the Planned Parenthood clinic in the South Bronx was “virtually destroyed” by vandals Thursday night. Wood flooring and plaster in the center were chopped into bits. Clothing, models of unborn babies and other outreach materials were overturned and strewn across the floor. According to Chris Slattery, who heads…

They thought their lives would change. For two and a half years,  Maher Ahmad El-Mo’otahssem Bellah El-Gohary, 58,  and his daughter, Dina Mo’otahssem, lived in hiding in Egypt, afraid for their lives. Their crime? They had converted to Christianity. Now, they are refugees in Syria since they can’t get visas allowing them to come to America or…

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