WASHINGTON, Oct. 4, 2013 /Christian Newswire/ — Rev. Patrick J. Mahoney is calling for the faith community to stop and pray for several minutes, wherever they are in the world, for the release of Pastor Saeed and the persecuted church.
A pair of suicide bombers blew themselves up outside a 130-year-old Anglican church in Pakistan after Sunday Mass, killing at least 78 people in the deadliest attack on Christians in the predominantly Muslim country.
Pastor Edward from Damascus paints a sad picture of the situation in the Syrian capital.
The Egyptian army’s crackdown on Mohamed Morsi’s Cairo supporters unleashed the largest attack on Egyptian Christians and Coptic houses of worship in the country’s modern history.
The Canadian province of Quebec won’t let public servants wear Muslim headscarves, Jewish skullcaps or other obvious religious symbols under a new charter unveiled on Tuesday that is designed to cement a secular society.
Yet another local government has received a threatening letter citing separation of church and state that targets perceived religious expression in the public arena.
