One of the most common things Christians in other nations have to contend with are the blasphemy laws that say that if they blaspheme Allah they are going to die. We've been following a few cases in recent days, first - Asia Bibi, and then Said Musa and now comes another story from Pakistan concerning a woman named Agnes Nuggo.

Lack of support from the US church hurts underground believers in ChinaWashington, D.C. (February 11, 2010)–International Christian Concern (ICC) recently met with three leading Chinese Christian Human Rights activists and learned that the persecuted Church is facing increased persecution. The church there is desperate for vocal support from US-based churches and denominations.

In the U.S., someone who converts to Christianity might be seen as extremely religious or weak for needing religion. In Laos, people have many misconceptions about Christianity and what it means to be a Christian. Here is a sample of what some Laotians think about Christianity, taken from a flyer posted in several villages recently.

NAIROBI, Kenya, February 22 (CDN) — A Christian widow in north Sudan is agonizing over the kidnapping of her daughter eight months ago by suspected Islamic extremists in Khartoum. “Since my daughter was kidnapped, I have been living in a state of fear and terror,” said Ikhlas Anglo, 35, a mother of two daughters. She said her 15-year-old daughter, Hiba Abdelfadil Anglo, went missing while returning from the Ministry of Education in Khartoum on June 27, 2010. Hiba, a member of Sudan Presbyterian Evangelical Church in Khartoum, had gone to the education ministry office to obtain her transcripts for entry to secondary school. Two days later, the family received threatening telephone calls and SMS messages from the kidnappers telling them to pay 1,500 Sudanese pounds (US$560) in order to secure her return. “Don’t you want to have this slave back?” one of the kidnappers told Anglo from an unknown location by cell phone, she said. Anglo and others said they believe the kidnappers are Muslim extremists who have targeted them because they are Christians, and that police are aiding the criminals. She said that when she went to a police station to open a case, police bluntly told her she must first leave Christianity for Islam. “You must convert to Islam if you want your daughter back,” officer Fakhr El-Dean Mustafa of the Family and Child Protection Unit told Anglo, she said. Recently transferred to another station, Mustafa was not immediately available for comment. More at Compass Direct.

One of The Voice of the Martyrs highlighted prisoners on Prisoner Alert.com is Said Musa. Recently Said Musa has come to the forefront as the Christian who left Islam for Christ and has had his leg amputated due to stepping on a landmine while he was serving in the Afghan Army.

A Tashkent judge fined the accountant of the Uzbek Bible Society 316,505 Soms ($189) for “violating procedures” during the import of two shipments of Bibles in 2008 and 2010, according to Forum 18 News. The judge also ordered the Bible Society to return the nearly 15,000 Bibles to the sender at its own expense. The shipments contained Bibles in Russian and Uzbek, along with children’s Bibles in Uzbek and Karakalpak, a language spoken in northwestern Uzbekistan. Authorities are especially opposed to the importation of Bibles that are in native languages instead of Russian.

As the train began to pull out of the station, the Christians standing on the platform unbuttoned their coats and pulled out hundreds of gospel tracts. Quickly they tossed the tracts, handfuls at a time, through the open train windows to the Russian troops inside.