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International Christian Concern (ICC) has learned that on November 7, a court in Pakistan sentenced a Christian mother of four to death for ‘blasphemy’ in Punjab province.

In collaboration with Human Rights Advocates and Religious Freedom Defenders The Center for Democracy and Human Rights and Saudi Arabia, CDHR INVITES YOU TO ATTEND AND PARTICIPATE IN THIS TIMELY CONFERENCE, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2010 – 12:00 (noon) to 4:30 P.M. U.S. Capitol Visitor Center Congressional Meeting Room (South) -  Please RSVP by Oct. 20. ali@cdhr.info--202.413.0084, olivia@cdhr.info 202.558.5552

The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) called on the Egyptian government to ensure the resumption tomorrow of the trial of the men charged with seven murders in the small town of Naga Hammadi in southern Egypt. Court proceedings have been postponed numerous times since February.

Somali Christians Living in Ethiopia Coming Under Increased Attacks

Washington, D.C. (July 19, 2010)– International Christian Concern (ICC) has learned that Islamists killed two Christians accused of blasphemy as they left court in Faisalabad, Pakistan today at 2 PM local time.

Washington, D.C. (July 7, 2010)– International Christian Concern (ICC) has learned that members of the Al-Qaeda linked Somali Islamist group, Al-Shabaab, publicly executed a Christian convert from Islam in the in Hudur district, Somalia on July 1st.

Hearing with the pronouncement of a judgement on the request of Egypt’s most well known convert, Mohamed Hegazy, to change his ID from “Muslim” to “Christian”

On 6th January 2010, as they left the church after the Christmas Midnight Mass, six Copts were gunned down and killed in a drive-by shooting in Naga Hammadi, a town in southern Egypt.

- Regarding the case filed for Mohamed Bishoy Hegazy, an Egyptian Muslim converted to Christianity: