Somalia (MNN) ? Four Christian teachers were shot and killed in Somalia, reports Voice of the Martyrs Canada.

Imagine being a Christian in America and being arrested for simply printing bibles or Christian material. This is an awful story on so many levels, but the reason I'm sharing it is because not only is the husband of this precious family suffering, but so is the whole family. A previous report from the Mission Network News will give you some background from before.

China Aid Association reports that the Chinese Communist government recently launched a strategic campaign against house churches in Xinjiang Autonomous Region.

It is amazing how time flies and how sometimes it is very easy to forget such horrendous massacres. For example, one year ago today - April 18, 2007 three Turkish converts were murdered.

In an article posted by the AFP titled China slammed over "grave" crisis facing NKorean refugees that is really a very sad look at is what is happening to those inside of North Korea and those who fled from North Korea and had the opportunity to take refuge in China.

NEW DELHI, April 15 (Compass Direct News) – Believing that his brother’s Christian faith was black magic that resulted in the death of his teenage daughter, a tribal villager in Dhar district, Madhya Pradesh state on April 3 killed Thakur Sing Bhil with an arrow shot to the chest, relatives said. Bhil, also known as Thakur Baba, was a Christian leader from Gatiya Dev village who had faced opposition from relatives after converting to Christianity. He was estimated to be 55 years old. Relatives said his brother Mangar Singh, 45, entered his house in a drunken rage at noon and shot an arrow into this chest from close range. “My husband’s younger brother, Mangar Singh, had a 17-year-old daughter who died about three months ago because of ill health, and he blamed us for he thought that the conversion of my husband and his praying were responsible for his daughter’s death,” Bhil’s wife Inda Pasaha Bhil told Compass. “He somehow misunderstood our belief and prayers to be black magic of some kind, and since he was always opposed to our embrace of Christianity, it further infuriated him.” Relatives said police had arrested Singh, but because of poor communications infrastructure Compass was not immediately able to obtain a police account of the incident.

- China Aid Association

-Forum 18 News Service