http://www.religionnewsblog.com Religion news about religious cults, sects, world religions, and related issues Mon, 13 Feb 2012 11:39:52 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26421/anti-christian-incidents-nearly-doubled-in-indonesia-in-2011 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26421/anti-christian-incidents-nearly-doubled-in-indonesia-in-2011#comments Thu, 05 Jan 2012 17:51:02 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=26421 Acts of violence and intolerance against Christians in Indonesia almost doubled in 2011, with an Islamist campaign to close down churches symbolizing the plight of the religious minority.

The worst is perhaps yet to come if authorities continue to overlook the threat of extremism, said a representative from the Jakarta-based Wahid Institute, a Muslim organization that promotes tolerance.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26421/anti-christian-incidents-nearly-doubled-in-indonesia-in-2011/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26367/uzbekistan-churches-banned-from-evangelism-youth-worship http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26367/uzbekistan-churches-banned-from-evangelism-youth-worship#comments Sat, 10 Dec 2011 22:01:36 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=26367 Authorities in eastern Uzbekistan have warned local churches not to allow youngsters and children to attend their worship services and not to carry out missionary activities or "proselytism", the word for evangelism, local Christians and activists said.

The news emerged after Deputy Head of Administration Saidibrahim Saynazirov spoke with church leaders in the city of Angren, 110 kilometers (70 miles) east of Uzbekistan's capital Tashkent.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26367/uzbekistan-churches-banned-from-evangelism-youth-worship/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26341/pastor%e2%80%99s-arrest-stir%e2%80%99s-anti-christian-sentiment-in-kashmir-india http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26341/pastor%e2%80%99s-arrest-stir%e2%80%99s-anti-christian-sentiment-in-kashmir-india#comments Thu, 24 Nov 2011 00:06:31 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=26341 Charges that a pastor “lured” Muslims to Christianity by offering money are false and have put the lives of the clergyman and other Christians in danger, according to Bishop Pradeep Kumar Samantaroy of the Church of North India denomination.

The allegations of allurement appear to have turned Muslim clergy and separatist leaders against the Christians.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26341/pastor%e2%80%99s-arrest-stir%e2%80%99s-anti-christian-sentiment-in-kashmir-india/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26145/in-indonesia-church-runs-afoul-of-islamic-street-name http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26145/in-indonesia-church-runs-afoul-of-islamic-street-name#comments Wed, 07 Sep 2011 10:55:32 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=26145 In a test case of religious intolerance in the world's largest Muslim-majority country, an Indonesian mayor is defying court rulings by pushing for a decree to block Christians from opening churches on streets with Islamic names.

Members of the Taman Yasmin Indonesian Christian Church in the West Java town of Bogor are, after three years, still forced to worship on the sidewalk outside their building, protected by police. ]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26145/in-indonesia-church-runs-afoul-of-islamic-street-name/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26125/churches-in-nepal-live-under-threat-discrimination http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26125/churches-in-nepal-live-under-threat-discrimination#comments Sat, 20 Aug 2011 14:43:59 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=26125 Hundreds of other churches scattered through the former Hindu kingdom of Nepal have faced government discrimination.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26125/churches-in-nepal-live-under-threat-discrimination/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26006/nepal-plans-new-criminal-code-forbidding-evangelism http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26006/nepal-plans-new-criminal-code-forbidding-evangelism#comments Thu, 02 Jun 2011 22:34:55 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=26006 Five years after it abolished Hinduism as the state religion, Nepal is working on a new criminal code forbidding a person from one faith to “convert a person or abet him to change his religion.”

Article 160 of the proposed code also says no one will be allowed to do anything or behave in any way that could cause a person from a caste, community or creed to lose faith in his/her traditional religion or convert to a different religion. The proposal would also prohibit conversion “by offering inducements or without inducement,” and preaching “a different religion or faith with any other intent.”]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26006/nepal-plans-new-criminal-code-forbidding-evangelism/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25628/uk-bars-u-s-pastor-who-threatened-to-burn-koran http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25628/uk-bars-u-s-pastor-who-threatened-to-burn-koran#comments Thu, 20 Jan 2011 15:57:02 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=25628 Terry Jones, whose threat to burn Islam's holy book on the anniversary of the September 11 attacks last year provoked widespread condemnation, has been banned from visiting Britain, Reuters reports.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25628/uk-bars-u-s-pastor-who-threatened-to-burn-koran/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25604/in-otherwise-tolerant-malaysia-shiites-are-banned http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25604/in-otherwise-tolerant-malaysia-shiites-are-banned#comments Fri, 14 Jan 2011 10:14:35 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=25604 OK to be Christian, Buddhist or Hindu. But not Shiite. ]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25604/in-otherwise-tolerant-malaysia-shiites-are-banned/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/24122/indonesia-muslim-groups-demand-closure-of-large-legal-church http://www.religionnewsblog.com/24122/indonesia-muslim-groups-demand-closure-of-large-legal-church#comments Thu, 25 Feb 2010 23:29:49 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=24122 Hundreds of Muslims from outside the area where a 600-member church meets in West Java staged a protest there to call for its closure this month in an attempt to portray local opposition.

Demonstrators from 16 Islamic organizations, including the hard-line Islamic Defenders Front (FPI), gathered on Feb. 15 to demand a stop to all activities by the Galilea Protestant Church (GPIB) in the Galaxy area of Bekasi City. ]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/24122/indonesia-muslim-groups-demand-closure-of-large-legal-church/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23455/vietnam-halts-church-construction http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23455/vietnam-halts-church-construction#comments Mon, 11 May 2009 10:34:41 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=23455 Amid protests against reported church destructions, the city of Hanoi has ordered one of its districts to stop construction work on land claimed by the Catholic church.

The move was seen as a surprise turnaround by Communist authorities who since March demolished at least one historic church building in the Central Highlands, Christians said.

Government work crews reportedly destroyed a Protestant church building of Evangelical Church of Vietnam (South), or ECVN(S), in the area of Banmethuot om March 11.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23455/vietnam-halts-church-construction/feed 0