Persecution in Bangladesh / Persecution of Hmong

Bangladesh - In Bangladesh attacks on converts to Christianity by Islamic extremists are increasing. The Bangladesh government is doing nothing to stop the persecution of these Christians.

Read about Christian persecution in Bangladesh

Vietnam - Beatings, imprisonment, and torture of Hmong Christians are commonplace. For some Hmong Christians, the torture includes drug injections. A witness said that “those that were injected said that they experienced symptoms of chest pains, headaches, and a loss of feeling in their limbs.”

Vietnam is even engaged in chemical warfare against the Hmong. Worshippers are being attacked with chemical weapons. They cause “seizures and uncontrollable shaking.” More than 100 worshippers at two separate church services required medical attention after chemical attacks.

Read about persecution of the Hmong Christians

A bit of good news is that in Vietnam the U.S. government has been working to stop the persecution of Hmong Christians.

Convert From Islam Held In Mental Hospital

Persecution of Christians in Egypt: A convert from Islam to Christianity is being held against his will in a Cairo mental hospital, where supervising doctors have told him he must stay unless he recants Christianity and returns to Islam. Since his forced confinement, he reportedly has been beaten, whipped and given potentially fatal injections by hospital personnel.

Gaser Mohammed Mahmoud, 30, was committed to the El-Khanka Hospital for Mental and Neurological Health in early January by his adoptive parents, after they learned he had become a Christian two years earlier.

Read this story on the International Christian Response web site.

UZBEKISTAN: Officials "condone" kangaroo court punishments of Christians

This blog is about Cristians and civil government. We've been posting links to news articles about Christian persecution aroundthe world. What does that have to do with civil government? Governments around tghe world regularly turn a blind eye to Christian persecution, and in many cases it isthe civil government supporting, or actually taking part in, persecution of Christians.

Here's an article about persecution in Uzbekistan.

This article is on an excellent web site dedicated to religious freedom, based in Oslo, Norway.

Christian Persecution in America

Here's an excellent radio program about the persecution the Focus on the Family ministry is facing. It is the Focus on the Family broadcast for May 9th. I could not find a individual page to link to, so I had to link to the archive page.

http://www.oneplace.com/Ministries/Focus_on_the_Family/Archives.asp

Go to the broadcast for May 9, 2005. It should be available there for the next month. If you'd liker to learn what is happening, listen to this 25 minute radio show. What they describe is not just targeted at Focus on the Family, all Christian ministries have been subject to the same thing, including small ministries such as Mission to America.

Hindu Extremists Attack Church, Burn Bibles

"Attackers molest female worshippers, severely injure pastor and wife."

"A crowd of nearly 500 Hindu villagers attacked the pastor of a house church, his wife and other church members in the southern state of Karnataka on May 1. The attackers sexually molested female church members and burned Bibles and other Christian literature."

Read the complete news article: Hindus Attack Church

Facing Legal Consequences In Canada

Just a few years ago who would have imagined that a Catholic Bishop would possibly be persecuted for speaking about one of the church's basic teachings? Bishop Frederick Henry of Calgary has sent out two pastoral letters repeating the church's teaching on homosexuality and as a result is facing complaints of human rights violations. Read more about this in Catholic World News.