ASSIST News Service

Muslim cleric accuses Pakistani Christian minister of committing blasphemy

Pakistani Muslim cleric claims Shahbaz Bhatti, Pakistan's Federal Minister for Minorities, has committed blasphemy.

Free iPhone Bible app offers dramatised audio

Faith Comes By Hearing, a non-profit audio Bible organisation, has released a free Bible app to the iPhone App Store.

Pakistan: Christians fear more unrest after arrest of ministry leaders

Muslims in the Pakistani city of Faisalabad are threatening to torch the houses of Christians after the arrest of two Christian brothers over alleged blasphemy charges in the first week of July, ANS has learned.

Mildmay AIDS hospital to be demolished

Britain's last remaining mission hospital -- where the UK's first AIDS victims were cared for and where Princess Diana famously shook hands with a patient at the height of the frenzy of fear around the illness --is to be knocked down.

Chester churches unite to transform communities

Engage 2010 unites 18 churches across Cheshire in outreach projects.

Somali Islamists execute Christian convert

A human rights organisation has learned that members of the Al-Qaeda linked Somali Islamist group, Al-Shabaab, publicly executed a Christian convert from Islam.

Afghan parliamentarian calls for execution of Christians

An Afghan parliamentary secretary has called for the public execution of Christian converts from the parliament floor, according to International Christian Concern.

Christian party hits out at Government church school proposals

Plans by the coalition government to dictate to church schools who they may admit is an unprecedented shift in church and state relations, according to a news release from the Christian Peoples Alliance (CPA) party.

Russian Ministries brings love of Christ to disadvantaged children

At former communist campgrounds that once indoctrinated the young that there is âno Godâ, thousands of children across the former Soviet Union will have the chance to hear about the love of Christ

New wave of Christian expulsions from Morocco

Twenty-three foreigners have been notified of expulsion from Morocco since May 10, marking a second wave of Christian deportations from the country, according to International Christian Concern (ICC).

Three Samaritan's Purse workers missing in Darfur

Three Samaritan's Purse employees have been abducted in Sudan.

Haiti pastors receive crisis training

While the devastation and heartache of the earthquake in Haiti may have dropped off the radar of the mainstream media, Somebody Cares, a growing voluntary membership network with relationships around the world has been assisting earthquake survivors in Haiti since January.

Call to India to reverse 'culture of impunity' for religious violence

Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW) has released a briefing which highlights the pattern of communal violence against Christians in India, and has urged that a "culture of impunity needs to be reversed to ensure inciters and perpetrators of communal violence expect to be brought to justice".