They hate you because of me - There is a number of items today so I decided I'd list them all in one spot with links to the articles. Here they are with excerpts:
Compass Direct reports - Afghanistan : Five Afghan Christians Martyred:
All five men were stabbed or beaten to death in summary executions by Taliban adherents who accused them of abandoning Islam and then “spreading Christianity” in their communities.
Compass Direct reports - Iran : Police Detain 80 Iranian Evangelicals:
Without warning, a large number of policemen surrounded the church’s garden property yesterday morning, bursting in to arrest all the men and women present at the first day of their annual meetings. “The police came from everywhere,” one Iranian Christian said, “and there were a lot of them.”
CBN runs ASSIST News Service report by Michael Ireland: Vietnam Forces Tribal Christians Out of Village:
The Vietnamese government has forced 96 Christian families to leave their village in Lao Cai Province, according to the Washington, DC, -based human rights group, International Christian Concern. The group reports that the families were forced to relocate to Binh Thuan Province about 800 miles to the south.
