Compass Direct

CHRISTIAN BOOKSTORE OWNER AWAITS TRIAL

Family members say Shi Weihan is nearly ‘unrecognizable’ due to weight loss.
DUBLIN, September 5 (Compass Direct News) – Beijing Christian bookstore owner Shi Weihan is awaiting the outcome of an August 19 court appearance and may be back in court within 10 days, according to Compass sources.
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POLICE DO LITTLE TO PROTECT CHRISTIANS IN ORISSA

Survivors fleeing to state capital continue to receive accounts of violence.

Ravindranath Pradhan

BHUBANESWAR, India, September 4 (Compass Direct News) – Christian victims of Hindu extremist violence who have fled to the capital of the eastern state of Orissa said state police have been mere spectators as mayhem continued a 12th consecutive day.
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Free Pastor Bike And His Wife

I received this today about Pastor Bike and his wife being arrested in China. Please read and go to the web site and sign the petition to release them from prison.
On August 6, just two days before the Olympics began, Pastor Zhang “Bike” Mingxuan was arrested, along with his wife and a coworker. In response [...]

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COURT DENIES WOMAN’S APPEAL TO LEAVE ISLAM

Muslim protesters disrupt public forum on dual legal system’s jurisdictional disputes.
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, August 15 (Compass Direct News) – A civil court on Aug. 5 denied a woman’s appeal to renounce Islam in favor of Christianity, highlighting the jurisdictional disputes in Malaysia’s dual legal system.
Lim Yoke Khoon had filed a suit in her original ethnic [...]

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Christian Students Locked Up for Protesting Bible Burning

I just wonder how Christians in America would face the difficulties and persecution that our brothers and sisters are going through in other countries around the world? Here is an article from the Christian Post about students being locked up for standing up.
Several high school students in Eritrea were locked up earlier this month in [...]

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CHRISTIANS PLEAD FOR RELIEF AS OLYMPICS CONTINUE

Hua Huiqi writes to President Bush; seminary staff to face trial after Games
DUBLIN, August 13 (Compass Direct News) – Christian activist and house church pastor Hua Huiqi wrote an open letter to U.S. President George Bush on Sunday (August 10), asking for prayer for his personal safety and for freedom of belief for all Chinese [...]

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Pakistani Court Grants Custody of Girls to Kidnappers

Is this Islamic ignorance or what?
Pakistani Court Grants Custody of Girls to Kidnappers
Christian parents lose daughters because minors converted to Islam; appeal pending.
By Peter Lamprecht
ISTANBUL, July 18 (Compass Direct News) – A Pakistani couple has appealed a court decision to award custody of their two daughters, 10 and [...]

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Death To The Christians

Iran is debating weather or not to kill Christians, or anyone else that decides they no longer want to be Muslim. According to “Islamic” law apostasy is punishable by death. In the UK there are several top officials that wants to use “Sharia” law in their court system. Here are some links:
The Daily Mail [...]

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ALGERIA: CHRISTIANS SENTENCED FOR SPREADING FAITH

Converts from Islam report discrimination following convictions.
ISTANBUL, July 3 (Compass Direct News) – A court in western Algeria convicted two Muslim converts to Christianity yesterday for illegally spreading their faith.
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IRAN: CONVERT COUPLE ARRESTED, TORTURED, THREATENED

Officers seize Christians from their home, leaving ill 4-year-old girl unattended.
LOS ANGELES, June 25 (Compass Direct News) – Security police officials in Tehran this month tortured a newly converted couple and threatened to put their 4-year-old daughter in an institution after arresting them for holding Bible studies and attending a house church.
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28Jun2008 | Tim | 0 comments | Continued

Church Extinction in Algeria?

Here is some great info from the Open doors Blog on how you can help the Church in Algeria!
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CHRISTIAN BOOKSTORE OWNER STILL WITHOUT TRIAL

‘Model citizen’ in Beijing illegally detained for three months.
LOS ANGELES, June 20 (Compass Direct News) – A hearing expected yesterday by relatives of Christian bookstore owner Shi Weihan, detained in a Chinese prison without charges, did not take place.
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GAZA STRIP: UNKNOWN ASSAILANTS ATTACK CHRISTIAN SCHOOL

Amid lawlessness and threats, tiny religious minority’s fears grow.
ISTANBUL, June 4 (Compass Direct News) – An attack on a Christian school in Gaza last weekend has created fear among the strip’s tiny religious minority, a Palestinian Christian said.
Armed assailants broke into the El-Manara school in Gaza City’s Zaitoon Quarter at 2 a.m. on Saturday (May [...]

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ALGERIA: CHRISTIANS FOUND GUILTY OF PROSELYTIZING MUSLIMS

Four defendants receive fines and suspended sentences, two others acquitted.
ISTANBUL, June 3 (Compass Direct News) – An Algerian court gave four Christians suspended sentences and fines today for seeking to convert Muslims to Christianity, a Protestant church leader said.
The case is one of several that have sparked local media and French government claims that Algeria [...]

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ERITREA: ER: AUTHORITIES JAIL 34 MORE CHRISTIANS IN HOUSE CHURCH RAID

Previously arrested 25 evangelicals transferred to military prison.
LOS ANGELES, June 2 (Compass Direct News) – Eritrean security police cracked down on more Christians again last week, arresting 34 evangelicals gathered for prayer and fellowship in a local home in Keren.
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ALGERIA-PROSECUTOR DEMANDS 2 YEAR SENTENCE FOR CONVERTS FROM ISLAM

In separate case, Christian woman’s verdict delayed due to international pressure.

ISTANBUL, May 28 (Compass Direct News) – A state prosecutor in western Algeria demanded two-year jail sentences and large fines for six Muslim converts to Christianity yesterday in one of two trials against Christians that have caught the north African nation’s attention in the [...]

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WHY AUTHORITIES HAVE BEGUN CLAMPING DOWN ON CHRISTIANS

Increase in converts apparently alarms Islamic nation.

ALGIERS, Algeria, May 27 (Compass Direct News) – The debate was urgent and often heated at the annual meeting of the Protestant Church of Algeria (EPA) earlier this month. The looming question: whether to obey or disobey government orders that have closed over half of the North African country’s [...]

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POLICE ARREST 12 CHRISTIAN CONVERTS

Four still imprisoned in crackdown in Shiraz.
ISTANBUL, May 21 (Compass Direct News) – Police in the southern Iran city of Shiraz this month cracked down against known Muslim converts to Christianity, arresting members of three Christian families and confiscating their books and computers.
The arrests began at 5 a.m. on May 11, when two couples were [...]

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COURT PRESSURES WOMAN TO RENOUNCE CHRIST

Christian could face three years in prison for practicing faith ‘without license.’
ISTANBUL, May 23 (Compass Direct News) – An Algerian public prosecutor has demanded a three-year sentence for a convert to Christianity in western Algeria for practicing her faith “without license.”
Habiba Kouider, 35, was plucked off an inter-city bus outside of her home town of [...]

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RESCUE OF GIRLS IGNITES ISLAMIC RAMPAGE

Six churches gutted after recovery of Christians teenagers from Muslim kidnappers.
NINGI, Nigeria, May 19 (Compass Direct News) – Islamists under the auspices of a paramilitary force last week destroyed six churches to protest a police rescue of two teenage Christian girls kidnapped by Muslims in this Bauchi state town.
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