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September 25 2012 By virtueonline Pakistani Anglican Church Burned By Islamic extremists

The BPCA said that Muslims desecrated Bibles and religious artefacts, especially many of which were used in ceremonies within the Anglican church. Many were brought out into the public compound of the church and were set on fire.

The BPCA is concerned that similar incidents will reverberate throughout Pakistan.

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September 18 2012 By virtueonline Egypt's Coptic Christians Fearful Amid Outrage Over Muhammad Film

"We are worried about violence," Mina Thabet, an activist and founding member of Maspero Youth Union, a group of Coptic Christians, told USA Today. "There will be more violence against us. There will be more discrimination. There will be more hate."

On Friday, the fourth day of demonstrations in Egypt, at least one protester was killed, more than 27 people were injured and 145 protesters were arrested near the U.S. Embassy in Cairo.

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September 13 2012 By virtueonline OTTAWA: 2012 Worldwide Initiative to Pray for Christian Victims of Persecution

Today, around the world over 200 million are suffering for their faith in Jesus Christ. The number of Christians who have been martyred for their faith in the 21st Century averages over 170,000 each year.

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September 12 2012 By virtueonline Screening of controversial Channel 4 documentary on history of Islam cancelled

Critics have accused Holland of distorting the history of the religion in Islam: The Untold Story.

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August 20 2012 By virtueonline Pakistani girl accused of Qur'an burning could face death penalty

As communal tensions continued to rise, around 900 Christians living on the outskirts of Islamabad have been ordered to leave a neighbourhood where they have lived for almost two decades.

On Sunday houses on the backstreets of Mehrabadi, an area 20 minutes drive from western embassies and government ministries, were locked with padlocks, their occupants having fled to already overcrowded Christian slums in and around the capital.

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August 08 2012 By virtueonline NIGERIA: Gunmen kill 16 at Deeper Life Church during service

"We are shocked. It is serious," a Pastor told The Nation last night.

The gunmen, who were said to be bearing sophisticated weapons, stormed the church during the Bible Study, a Monday programme, at about 7p.m., shooting indiscriminately.

The gunmen reportedly took the worshippers by surprise. They blocked all entrances into the church, preventing people from escaping as they fired indiscriminately at the worshippers.

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August 02 2012 By virtueonline Iraqi Christian children survive double bomb blasts

This prompted shocked comments and retweets from people around the world.

One news report said the bomb blasts had killed 21 people. A later update by Canon White revealed that thankfully none of the children, nor their teachers, had been killed in the attack.

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August 02 2012 By virtueonline The Religious Silence on Christian Persecution

Yet Mr. Nadarkhani has almost none of the name recognition that Messrs. Mandela and Sharansky had. Despite the increasing ferocity with which Christians are targeted-church bombings in Nigeria, discrimination in Egypt (where Christians have been imprisoned for building or repairing churches), beheadings in Somalia-Americans remain largely unaware of how bad the situation has become, particularly in the Islamic world and in communist countries like China and North Korea.

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August 01 2012 By virtueonline KENYA - DEADLY CHURCH ATTACKS BY ISLAMIST MILITANTS

A Barnabas Fund contact in Kenya said, "The gun shots in the compound made worshippers run out in panic only to the waiting killers. Using police guns, they rained bullets on fleeing worshippers and many who could not run. Blood could be seen everywhere, furniture strewn all over and worshippers left in shock."

Two grenades were thrown inside the second church; one failed to detonate, but three people were injured by the other.

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July 02 2012 By virtueonline Kenya church attacks 'kill 15' in Garissa

Kenya said the operations, launched last October, were designed to bring an end to kidnappings on Kenyan soil and other violence which it blamed on al-Shabab.

But since then, al-Shabab has been blamed for a further string of grenade and bomb blasts across Kenya - though it has never admitted to carrying out any such attack on Kenyan territory.

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