Tell-a-Tourist outreach took place in London at Easter Time. From 3-6 April, a team organised by London City Mission and Open Air Campaigners took to the streets of London. For story click here.
The Middle East Forum reports in its list of muslim persecutions of christians that religious police raided a Methodist church event due to fears that muslims were being converted.The Armenian Evangelical Church in Tehran, Iran was ordered to cease to hold Persian services on Friday. The authorities warned that the church building would be bombed if the order was ignored. In Kenya, a band of muslims launched a grenade attack on a crowd of 150 Christians attending an outdoor church meeting, killing two. The muslims were said to be hyped into action by a muslim preacher holidng a rally only 900 feet from the Christian gathering.
Sales of women and girls is booming in Europe according to the Netherlands-based EU crime fighting unit, Eurojust. Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria and Nigeria are the main source countries for the Netherlands. Up to 300 prostitutes work in Amsterdam. For story click here.
The Organization of Islamic Cooperation, the largest intergovenmental organisation after the UN has agreed to expose ‘anti-Muslim movements in the world and will keep tabs on problems faced by muslim citizens in the Western and Asian countries. Source: Today’s Zaman
Open Doors is encouraging people, in its May newsletter, to pray for the estimated 1.9m Christians that live in Syria. It reports that Christians have been robbed, murdered and churches tourched as the country faces unrest.Leaders are expecting an exodus of Christians from Syria as occurred in Iraq.
Action: Open Doors asks people to consider the Syrian Christians in their prayer.
The March for Life 2012 and Reformed Prayer Service is being held in Ottawa, Canada, May 10. Every year, thousands of people gather on Parliament Hill to protest the decriminalisation of abortion in Canada at the National March for Life.
Rescue those who are being taken away to death; hold back those who are stumbling to the slaughter. If you say, “But we did not know this,” does not he who weighs the heart perceive it? Does not he who keeps watch over your soul know it, and will he not repay man according to his work? Proverbs 24:11-12
MINDANAO, Philippines – The Philippines is a mostly Christian nation, but in the south, Muslim fundamentalists are trying to build an Islamic state. Christians there face persecution and even death. For report see article by CBN News’ Lucille Talusan, “Philippines Pastors Face Death for Ministry to Muslims, March 24, 2012.
For a list of some of the persecutions of christians around the world in February 2012 read the latest newsletter from the Middle East Forum
Middle East Forum reports that a Kuwaiti Parliamentarian, Osama al-Munawer, is set to submit a draft bill which will ban the construction of churches in the country. Story click here.
For more on the Middle East Forum: http://www.meforum.org/
The Middle East Forum February update says Armed men raided and ransacked a church formally recognized since 1958, dismantling the crucifix above the premises. The pastor and his family, trapped inside, feared that “they could kill us.” The pastor “has been repeatedly threatened and attacked since being ordained as pastor in 2007. In the summer of 2009 his wife was beaten and seriously injured by a group of unknown men. Then, in late 2011, heaps of trash were thrown over the compound walls while an angry mob shouted death threats. For story click here.
