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Two Christians Murdered: Long Feared Anti-Christian Violence Begins in Iraq? By, Barnabas Fund.

Britain's Daily Telegraph reports the deaths of Sabah Gazala and Abdul Ahed who were shot and killed by two Islamic gunmen within ten minutes in separate incidents in Basra on 8 May. Like a number of Christians in the city and in other parts of Iraq they were involved in the sale of alcohol, jobs f

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Missionary Beheaded on Troubled Pacific Island. By Patrick Goodenough. CNSNews.com Pacific Rim Bureau Chief. May 19, 2003

The 60-year-old man was decapitated by an unidentified assailant, armed with a large bush knife, a church worker said by phone Monday.
Lance Gersbach worked as business manager for an 80-bed hospital run by the Seventh Day Adventist Church on Malaita, one of the larger islands in the Solomons archi

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Bangladesh: Time for action to protect human rights. Amnesty International Report.

"As a result of these two laws, thousands of people are arbitrarily detained every year and many are tortured in the process. It is high time for the current government to take action."

The Special Powers Act allows arbitrary detention for long periods of time without charge. It circumve

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Disaster averted in Bannu.

He said the bomb, which was timed to go off around 8:00 am on Tuesday was detected by a hotel worker at around 5:00 am. Had it exploded it would have caused heavy losses in the city,s most congested area, Khan told AFP by telephone.It was recovered almost two hours after a small home-made device exp

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KARACHI BISHOP TAKES OVER AS MODERATOR AT HYDERABAD. By Abbas Kassar. PCP Report.

Moderator Bishop Sadiq Daniel held meeting with the fathers from all over Sindh at Diocese Hyderabad.They welcomed his appointment and presented Ajrak and Sindhi cap to him as mark of respect. They expressed confidence in him.

Addressing the meeting on this occasion Moderator Cumsory Bishop Sadiq

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Pakistan brewer eyes Indian sales amid peace moves.

"We look forward to it if relations improve," said M.P Bhandara, Managing Director of Rawalpindi-based Murree Brewery Co Ltd and a member of a team of Pakistani lawmakers visiting India on a friendship mission.

New Delhi named a new ambassador to Pakistan on Tuesday, the latest step toward better

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Alcohol licences of all hotels cancelled.

The Excise and Taxation officials on Tuesday sealed bars of city's 5-star hotel - Pearl Continental and Greens Hotel - without serving any official notices, sources told Dawn.

"Three officials of the Excise and Taxation Department came to the PC Hotel and sealed the bar without showing any offic

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Catholic MP attacks `outrageous' Home Office priorities. Christians sent home as Taliban are given asylum. By Bess Twiston Davis. Catholic Herald UK.

'It seems outrageous that ex-Taliban fighters who have shed British blood are allowed to stay in Britain. We know Christians are being persecuted for their faith in Pakistan. Yet it is fine for Christians, who have the faith of the established Church in this country, to be thrown out."

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Lahore police lodged Blasphemy case against Christian woman after rape.

The case under section 295 B & C PPC was registered against her in the same police station where she was raped on November 10, 2002.

The strange part of this false blasphemy case against Nasreen Bibi is that Sub Inspector of Police of same Nawan Kot Police station named Mohammad Bashir Ahmed ASI,

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Bomb Blast at Lebanon Home of Dutch Missionary. By Nazih Siddiq

It was the second attack on Christian missionaries in Lebanon in six months, and the most recent in a string of attacks on Western targets that has picked up pace since the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq.

Security officials identified the dead man as a Jordanian acquaintance of the couple who had con

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Karo-kari claims three women lives. PCP. Report.

In this new millennium, they Sindhi people follow the same tradition and kill their wives, daughters and sisters. Police does also not report such incidents and cases of murders are not registered against these inhuman killings in Pakistan.

In Sukkur district of Sindh province, Nasrullah Misrani

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Tammy Ann Gaskins, Advisor of CWS Pakistan in USA, aims at freedom of Christian children Bonded Labour in Pakistan. PCP. Exclusive Report.

She said " precious sacrifice of Iqbal Masih is cashed by the opportunist labour leadership and killers of Christian children have been set free by the deal among government of Pakistan and Carpet Industry owners' She said that Christian children are in thousands, as Bonded Labour in Brick Kline and

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Rev. Siddique Masih, Founder of Indo Pak Bible fellowship Church New York, Vows on uplift of Christians in Pakistan. Interview by PCP Team. New York. May 11, 2003.

In 1967, Rev. Siddique Masih joined the government of Pakistan and served in different Federal Ministries in high profiles for years. He stood firm in his Christian belief among his Muslim co-workers who were in majority and mostly criticized the Christianity. His knowledge in Holy Bible and experie

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Bomb blast outside Pak Christian hospital. Press Trust of India/ Agence France-Presse

The blast caused minor damage to the wall but no casualties, he said. The 200-bed Christian Missionary Hospital has been operating in Tank, some 400 kilometres south of here, since 1945. Local police officer Mohammad Khan told AFP by telephone that such devices were made in the tribal area. An inves



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