NORTH INDIA :– A Gospel for Asia missionary and a Bible college student were attacked August 15 after distributing Gospel tracts to people in North India.

The injured missionary was one of more than 200 GFA missionaries and Bible college students taking part in an urban outreach. They were divided into groups and working in a large urban area handing out tracts. Things were going well for the first few hours as most people accepted the literature and listened to the Gospel presentations.

KERALA, INDIA – A Christian estate owner was killed at Thathengalam, near Mannarghat in the Palakkad district of Kerala, India, on 17 August.

John Mathew, also known as Monachan, was a prayer warrior and cash crop entrepreneur.
According to Salem Voice Ministries (SVM) News Service, John Mathew, 47, who was also known as Monachan of Pothukal Njettikkulam in Nilambur of Malappuram district, was killed in his farm house at Thathengalam on Thursday night.

His dead body was found at 7.30 on Friday morning on the floor inside the farm house. Both of his hands and legs were tied up.

Pastor, believers attacked in Bhilai

Bhilai: Pastor Babula Chandra Paik of Christian Church was attacked during Sunday worship service in Bhilai of Madhya Pradesh on 5 August 2007.

Around 50 Hindu fanatics belonging to Bajrang Dal entered the church armed with lathis and sticks and started raising slogans against the congregation. They were protesting against the Pastor’s alleged forcible conversion activities in the area.

The fanatics led by Rajesh Thabre and Sudeep Banerjee, leaders of Bajrang Dal, dragged the Pastor out and manhandled him.

New Delhi: All India Christian Council (aicc) has strongly condemned the attack on Outlook office in Mumbai by Siva Shiv activists.

In a press release issued by aicc Secretary General Dr John Dayal, also Member of the National Integration Council, President of All India Catholic Union and former Treasurer of Editors Guild of India, said, “Shiv Sena goons, like their spiritual brothers of Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (MIM), Bajrang Dal and Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh elsewhere in India, remind us that 60 years after Independence, India has not been able to exorcise the demons that divided br

BUDAPEST/MOSCOW :– There was international concern Tuesday, August 14, about the fate of two detained Baptist leaders in the former Soviet republics of Turkmenistan and Azerbaijan.

Forum 18, a well-informed religious rights group, said it has learned that Turkmenistan released a key Muslim leader, former Chief Mufti Nasrullah ibn Ibadullah, but stressed that “the other known religious prisoner Baptist prisoner of conscience Vyacheslav Kalataevsky” had not been released.

Family members say the pastor is still being held in a labor camp “with harsh conditions” and insist that he is being

District announces new rule barring “students who follow a religion.”

August 13 :– A school in central Vietnam has denied entry to a fifth-grade boy because he is Christian, according to a letter from an elementary school principal to the ethnic minority child’s parents.

Tran Van Ha, principal of Ka Dang Public Elementary School in Quang Nam province, wrote to Phong Hong Phong’s parents on July 2 that the Degar (Montagnard) child could not take an entrance exam because the school district had announced a new rule barring “students who follow a religion.”

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