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Published: Thursday 02 February 2012

Barnabas weekly newsletter 02 February 2012

Country: South and East Asia, Africa, Europe, United Kingdom, Syria, Middle East and North Africa, India, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Cameroon

Latest international news
Ethiopian Christians arrested at prayer facing deportation from Saudi Arabia

A group of 35 Ethiopian Christians are facing deportation from Saudi Arabia for “illicit mingling” after they were arrested in a police raid on a private prayer meeting in one of their homes.

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The Christians were arrested
at a house in Jeddah
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Church leader martyred while helping wounded parishioner in Syria

Syrian Christians have hailed as a martyr a 30-year-old church leader who was gunned down as he rushed to the aid of a parishioner wounded amid heavy fighting in Hama.

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Basilios Nassar
 

Iranian convert scalded with hot water while seeking asylum in Turkey

A persecuted Iranian convert to Christianity who was forced to flee his homeland was beaten and scalded with hot water by his employer in Turkey, where he has been seeking asylum.

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Yousef Fallah Ranjbar
suffered severe scalding on his back
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Christian converts in Cameroon under threat from militant Islamists

Christian converts in northern Cameroon are coming under intensifying pressure following a warning from militant Muslims to return to Islam or “face Allah’s wrath”.

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Anti-Christian incidents
are rare in Cameroon
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Sharia court issues fatwa ordering expulsion of pastor from Indian state

A sharia court has issued a fatwa against an Indian pastor falsely accused of forcibly converting Muslims; it orders that he and four other Christian leaders be expelled from the state.

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An anti-Christian campaign
is being carried out in the Kashmir Valley
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