Today is the fifth anniversary of the start of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq.
Initially, the minority Christian population in Iraq was mostly elated with the fall of Saddam Hussein. They envisioned the coming of peace, safe places to work and live and complete freedom to worship.
The Foundation for Moral Law, a religious-liberties legal organization led by Judge Roy Moore, will be defending Michael Marcavage of Repent America, in a trial scheduled for March 10, 2008, against the charge of “disorderly conduct” brought against Mr. Marcavage for preaching in a Salem, Mass. public square on Halloween night, Oct. 31, 2007.
China Aid today released its annual persecution report to an anticipatory audience. According to the report, 2007 saw an increase in overall persecution since last year.
In 2007, the known religious cases in which house churches were persecuted by the government covered 18 provinces and one municipality directly under the jurisdiction of the Central Government and there were 60 cases of persecution, up 30.4% from that of 2006. The total number of people persecuted was 788, up 18.5% from that of the year before. The total number of people arrested and detained is 693, up 6.6% from that of the year before. 16 people were sentenced to imprisonment, down 5.9% from that of the year before.
Names and places have been changed due to the extreme need for security.
I have returned from the exciting work of the Lord. He opened many doors, allowing us to impact thousands of people.
By Allie Martin, OneNewsNow
Last fall, Sara Sloan, a journalism student at Paradise Valley Community College in Phoenix, contacted the American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ), after she had been denied an occupational journalism certificate. Despite Sloan being an honor student, a panel of professors who reviewed her work denied her certificate on the basis of strong Christian themes in many of her articles.
By Allie Martin
The president of Gospel for Asia says while violent acts against Christians are orchestrated by fundamentalist and nationalist religious groups, the crimes are not condoned by Hinduism at large or by the vast majority of the Indian people.
