Aaron Klein has a great article over at WorldNetDaily about some recent destruction of crosses by Muslims.

More than 80 Christian families are homeless and living on church grounds following the recent and continuing political unrest in Pakistan, according to The Voice of the Martyrs contacts.

The following is breaking news from Compass Direct. Please pray for the Pakistani Christians who are dealing with all of this suffering right now.

As many of you who read this blog daily know, we have been trying to get the word out about Gao Zhisheng who has now been imprisoned in China for 96 days simply for being a Christian. We have asked you for weeks to sign the Free Gao petition that we have set up, along with our friends at The China Aid Association at http://www.freegao.com and today I am happy to share with you that the New York Times has also written a piece about the situation with Gao and his family. The article is titled How the Family of a Dissident Fled China , and once you read it, I believe you will be moved to continue to pray for Gao and his family.

On April 26, three Christians were killed and two others wounded in Kirkuk, Iraq, according to CNN.com.

Mission Network News is reporting today that Christians continue to be persecuted in Uzbekistan. Many Christians are being put in prison or fined for simply sharing their faith with children.

Fourteen Khmu Christian families in Laos are standing strong in their faith, despite the Communist government forcing them to relocate to another village and their homes and church building being destroyed, according to The Voice of the Martyrs contacts.

DHAKA, Bangladesh, April 4 (Compass Direct News) — Bangladeshi authorities called a five-month halt to construction of a church in northern Bangladesh, for fear of huge conversions. Authorities have said they will approve renewed construction soon. Forkan Al Mashi, 55, a pastor of Calvary Ishai Fellowship, started building a church in early November 2008 in Palashbari Mondol Para in Kurigram district, 350 kilometers (218 miles) north of the capital city, Dhaka. Mashi told Compass that, at the urging of local Jamaat-e-Islami leaders, more than 100 Muslims gathered in a mosque on Nov. 7 to protest the church construction. “I informed police and instantly two platoons of police, around 25 in number, were deployed near the under-construction church building,” Mashi said. “Some of the police also went to the mosque to persuade the Muslims not to demolish the pillars and the floor of the under-construction church building.”