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	<title>Religion News Blog &#187; Religious Persecution</title>
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		<title>Trial begins for Christians</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Two men who converted to Christianity went on trial Thursday for allegedly insulting Turkishness and inciting religious hatred against Islam.]]></description>
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		<title>Saudi Arabia: Four Christians found praying at home arrested</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[All the Christians come from eastern African. The arrest was carried out by the muttawa during a prayer service in a private residence. 
Jeddah (AsiaNews) – The notorious Muttawa (religious police) have struck Christians in Saudi Arabia once again. According to the Compass Direct agency, on 9 June, 10 police armed with wooden clubs broke [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Anger over Christian convert in Kabul who faces death</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Abdul Rahman, a 41-year-old Afghan, was a Muslim for 25 years before he began working for an international Christian group helping his fellow countrymen in Pakistan. Within a couple of years he had converted to Christianity.
Fourteen years later, the decision may cost him his life.
After four years in Peshawar Mr Rahman spent the next nine [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Accused Christian convert in Afghanistan faces possible death penalty</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[KABUL, Afghanistan — An Afghan man who allegedly converted from Islam to Christianity is being prosecuted in a Kabul court and could be sentenced to death, a judge said today.
The defendant, Abdul Rahman, was arrested last month after his family went to the police and accused him of becoming a Christian, Judge Ansarullah Mawlavezada told [...]]]></description>
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		<title>North Korea comes top of persecution list</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[NORTH KOREA has again come top of the list of countries which persecute Christians, according to the religious liberties charity, Open Doors.
The chart-style approach to Christian persecution showed that the isolated nation of North Korea came top for the fourth year in a row, but the charity found that overall ‘slightly more openness’ was being [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Convert from Islam to face apostasy charges</title>
		<link>http://www.religionnewsblog.com/10819/convert-from-islam-to-face-apostasy-charges</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Christian Sources Fear For His Safety
IRAN (ANS) &#8212; Christians in Iran have expressed great fears for the life of pastor Hamid Pourmand, a lay leader in a church and a convert from Islam, who will appear before an Islamic court next week to face charges of apostasy. If found guilty he is likely to face [...]]]></description>
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		<title>China&#8217;s Christians suffer for their faith</title>
		<link>http://www.religionnewsblog.com/9314/chinas-christians-suffer-for-their-faith</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Nov 2004 06:54:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;They hung me up across an iron gate, then they yanked open the gate and my whole body lifted until my chest nearly split in two. I hung like that for four hours.&#8221;
That is how Peter Xu Yongze, the founder of one of the largest religious movements in China, described his treatment during one of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Persecuted for their faith &#8212; and ignored by the U.S.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Aug 2004 15:06:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If Bush truly believes religion is the &#8220;first freedom of the human soul,&#8221; why isn&#8217;t his administration pressuring countries that persecute people for their beliefs?
Aug. 4, 2004  &#124; Even staunch defenders of the U.S.-Saudi alliance, such as former Secretary of State James Baker, would be hard-pressed to assert that Saudi Arabia respects religious freedom. A [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pastor beaten for leading inmates to Christ</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Mar 2004 22:12:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chinese guards cripple house-church leader for spreading &#8216;evil cult&#8217;
The leader of a Chinese house church imprisoned by the Communist government has been crippled by a severe beating as punishment for leading 50 fellow inmates to the Christian faith.

China and Christianity
China touts new churches, but rules crimp faithful
Beijing prays it can keep religion under control
&#8216;Faith is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Muslim Christian convert wins asylum</title>
		<link>http://www.religionnewsblog.com/5787/muslim-christian-convert-wins-asylum</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2004 20:33:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[LEIPZIG - A court in Germany has upheld the right to political asylum granted to a Muslim who converted to Christianity after coming to this country.

Persecution of Christians in Iran
The Persecution of Christians in Iran
Persecution in Iran


The federal administrative court in Leipzig said Tuesday the defendant, a political refugee from Iran, could conceivably face persecution [...]]]></description>
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