Persecution Watch

• In Burma, 50 Christians have been taken for forced labor and their pastor was tortured;
• In Egypt, the government flatly denies the army opened fire on a group of Christians, despite plenty of evidence to the contrary;
• In India, a prominent Hindu leader calls for the execution - by decapitation - of converts to Christianity;
• In the Ivory Coast, 40 Catholic buildings have been attack by bandits in just 2 1/2 months.