By Stefan J. Bos, Chief International Correspondent Worthy News
YANGON, MYANMAR (BosNewsLife)– One of Asia’s leading humanitarian agencies urged Christians Thursday to pray for Myanmar’s “suffering people” after hundreds died in the South Asia nation’s military coup.
Gospel for Asia (GFA World) cited reports that some 114 people including children were killed since last weekend across the country.
It brings the death toll to more than 400 since the February 1 coup when the army seized control of Myanmar, also known as Burma, Christians said. Most of those killed participated in pro-democracy protests.
Several Christians were also killed in airstrikes by the Buddhist-majority army on villages in the country‘s Karen State, Christians told BosNewsLife
By Stefan J. Bos, Chief International Correspondent Worthy News ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN (BosNewsLife) Hundreds of Pakistani Christian widows and their children rely on monthly food parcels in impoverished Pakistan amid Christian persecution and an ongoing coronavirus pandemic, aid workers told Bos .
By Stefan J. Bos, Chief International Correspondent Worthy News
ALGIERS, ALGERIA (BosNewsLife)– Algerian Christians have urged prayers for a pastor and his assistant who were jailed and fined for evangelizing in Algeria, an Islamic nation, BosNewsLife learned.
Pastor Rachid Seighir of a church in Oran’s coastal city, and a salesman helping in the book and stationery shop the pastor runs, were sentenced to two years imprisonment, trial observers said.
They were also fined some $3,800 each in local currency during the February 27 court procedure held in absentia, according to Christians familiar with the situation. Both will appeal the sentence, supporters said.
By Stefan J. Bos, Chief International Correspondent Worthy News ABUJA, NIGERIA (BosNewsLife) Islamic militants have released a Nigerian pastor who they threatened to kill unless their demands were met, security sources said. Bulus Yikura of the Church of the Brethren in Nigeria (EYN) was held .