
Religious Freedom

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Unknown assailants shoot pastor dead in Laos
Pastor Thongkham Philavanh was feeding his chickens and ducks behind his house in Vanghay village, northwestern Laos, on Monday (July 22) when two men on motorcycles, faces covered, arrived. -
Attack in India ends church’s in-person worship services
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Boatman attacks evangelizing Christians on Lake Constance, Germany
A man angry with a group of Christians reading Bible verses with a megaphone on their boat off the German shores of Lake Constance rammed his boat into theirs three times, causing one of them to fall overboard, slightly injuring his leg. -

Faith of Christian on death row in Pakistan shines in studies
A Christian sentenced to death for blasphemy despite lack of evidence in Pakistan has demonstrated his faith by excelling academically even in prison, sources said. -

Pastor and family devastated by death of son in India
Pastor Sushil Kumar and his wife rose at 3 a.m. on July 8 in their village in northern India as always to pray. They came out of their house 90 minutes later to find their 22-year-old son’s body hanging from the bamboo ceiling of a nearby animal shed. -

Azerbaijan destroys Christian sites, heritage in Nagorno-Karabakh
Azerbaijan is guilty of “cultural genocide” for destroying Christian sites in the Nagorno-Karabakh region and falsely claiming that Armenian religious presence there never existed, according to a report by a legal advocacy group. -

Officials in China intensify ‘Sinicization’ of religion
Religious leaders in China were instructed to put President Xi Jinping and his doctrines at the center of their teaching and preaching at a recent high-level seminar of top faith representatives and bureaucrats. -

Christian father, 29, gunned down by Muslims in Pakistan
A Catholic father of four children was gunned down by Muslim neighbors last week after he objected to their harassment of Christians in the area, his family said. -

Hindu extremist attack shuts down church’s services in India
Worship services at a church in a village in central India’s Madhya Pradesh state have been suspended since Hindu extremists attacked the congregation on June 1, sources said.
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