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• Mar 16, 2010

  Christian Who Fled Iran Wins Asylum in Kenya

  Mohammad Azbari, a Christian convert from Islam who has fled to Kenya, knows what it\'s like to be deported back to his native Iran.

• Mar 13, 2010

  Morocco Begins Large-Scale Expulsion of Foreign Christians

  Moroccan authorities deported more than 40 foreign Christian aid workers this week in an ongoing, nationwide crackdown.

• Mar 12, 2010

  Christians Refuse to Allow Officials to Close Church in Indonesia

  Efforts by local officials in this city in West Java to close a church met with stiff resistance this month, as a defiant lawyer and weeping women refused to allow it.

• Mar 11, 2010

  Pakistan's 'Blasphemy' Laws Claim 3 More Christians

  A Christian couple was sentenced to 25 years in prison for violating Pakistan\'s widely condemned \"blasphemy\" laws last week, and another Christian convicted without basis under the same statutes the previous week received the same sentence.

• Mar 9, 2010

  Court Reverses Revocation of Indonesian Church\'s Building Permit

  A court in West Java has reversed the revocation of a Catholic church\'s building permit. The church sued the Purwakarta regency for revoking the approved building permit in Cinangka village last October

• Mar 3, 2010

  Attacks in Punjab, India Similar to Orissa Mayhem, Report Says

  Attacks on Christians last month in Punjab state following protests against banners depicting Jesus drinking and smoking were eerily similar to the anti-Christian violence in Orissa state in 2007 and 2008, according to a fact-finding mission.

• Feb 27, 2010

  Christians in Nigeria Decry Police Inaction in Church Burnings

  The head of the Christian Association of Nigeria in Zamfara state told Compass that he was disappointed in the lack of response by state police to recent church burnings by Muslim youths.

• Feb 26, 2010

  Christians Arrested after Muslim Attack in Pakistan

  In the wake of an attack this week by 150 armed Muslims on a Christian colony near this city in Sindh Province, police have filed a false First Information Report against 40 unnamed Christians and arrested five, Christian leaders said.

• Feb 26, 2010

  Muslim Groups Demand Closure of Large, Legal Church

  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.

• Feb 25, 2010

  Anti-Christian Sentiment Marks Journey for Bhutan\'s Exiles

  Thrust from their homes in Bhutan after Buddhist rulers embarked on an ethnic and religious purge, Christian refugees in Nepal face hostilities from Hindus and others.