U.S. Kidnapping Victim Released in Sudan

By World Editor
Published: August 31, 2010
U.S. Kidnapping Victim Released in Sudan
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BOONE, N.C. /Christian News/ — International aid worker Flavia Wagner was released today after being held hostage for 105 days in Sudan. The 35-year-old employee of international relief organization Samaritan’s Purse is exhausted but in good health and currently in Khartoum.
Initially, two Samaritan’s Purse employees and a Sudanese driver were abducted at approximately 5:30 p.m. [...]

Pakistani Taliban Kills Three Foreign Christian Aid Workers

By World Editor
Published: August 31, 2010
Pakistani Taliban Kills Three Foreign Christian Aid Workers
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (CDN) — Authorities have recovered the bodies of three Christian relief workers who had been kidnapped and killed by members of the Pakistani Taliban in the flood-ravaged country, area officials said.
Swat District Coordination Officer Atif-ur-Rehman told Compass that the Pakistan Army recovered the bodies of the three foreign flood-relief workers at about 7 [...]

Burma War Crimes Panel Gathers Steam

By World Editor
Published: August 24, 2010
Burma War Crimes Panel Gathers Steam
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Burma (MNN) ― The United States officially backs a Burma “war crimes” panel and inquiry.
President Barack Obama supports the creation of an international commission that will investigate war crimes allegedly committed by the ruling military junta.
The announcement comes as part of an effort to put Burma on a path to reform, to achieve credible elections [...]

Mother of Dead Cuban Prisoner of Conscience Prevented from Attending Church

By World Editor
Published: August 18, 2010
Mother of Dead Cuban Prisoner of Conscience Prevented from Attending Church
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CUBA /Christian News/ — Christian Solidarity Worldwide is calling on the Cuban government to allow Reina Luis Tamayo Danger, the mother of Orlando Zapata Tamayo who died in Cuban prison earlier this year, to attend religious services and to cease their harassment of Tamayo Danger and her family.
Since the beginning of August, on consecutive Sundays, [...]

Church Leaders Executed in North Korea

By World Editor
Published: August 17, 2010
Church Leaders Executed in North Korea
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North Korea (VCM/MNN) ― North Korea has consistently topped the world’s human rights watch lists as being the most repressive and closed nation in the world.
The stories of the brutality against Christians, in particular, are hair raising. Voice of the Martyrs Canada just released another report revealing that the government executed three leaders of an [...]

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