7/8/2006 Somolia (BosNewsLife) Death Sentence For Those Not Praying--Last month, Mogadishu was taken over by the Union of Islamic Courts (UIC), which has pledged to implement tough Sharia, or Muslim, law. Among other measures, Muslims who do not pray five times a day will be put to death, the new supreme leader of the UIC said.

7/10/2006 China (AsiaNews) China Condemns Six Protestant Pastors To Death Without Proof-The Chinese justice system has condemned six Protestant leaders to death for homicide and fraud. Their lawyers said the evidence presented against them was not sufficient to incriminate any of them and their confessions - which clinched the case for the judges - were extracted by torture.

7/11/2006 Islam (Ninemsn) Islamic Books Banned For Inciting Terror--Two Islamic books have been banned after the Classification Review Board found they incited terrorism.The books, Defence of the Muslim Lands, and Join the Caravan, have been refused classification and can no longer be sold within Australia or imported into the country

7/11/2006 Egypt (Reuters) Muslim Stopped From Attacking Christians In Egypt--Guards stopped a Muslim from carrying out a knife attack on Christians at a church in Egypt security sources said. Police arrested Mohammed Masoud Khalil after he was stopped by guards at the door of St. George's church in the southern Egyptian town of Qous, the sources said. Police said he was mentally ill.

7/11/2006 Germany (BosNewsLife) Germany Threatens To Deport Iranian Christian--German Christian news agency Idea said authorities want to expel former Muslim Reza Mamipourabri, who currently works as a Christian evangelist in Germany, perhaps as early as this month. He was already "detained and tortured" for several months in Iran, following his decision in 1995 to become a Christian.

7/11/2006 Pakistan (AsiaNews) Christian Kiln Workers Beaten--Three Christian brick kiln workers and their families were beaten because they refused to put up with their employers’ abuse; their experience is not unique though. Most of their fellow workers have been subjected to violence and abuses by Muslim kiln owners. For this reason, a Catholic NGO is fighting for their rights.

7/12/2006 Sri Lanka (ICC) House Church Attacked, Christians Excluded from Community Group--A mob attacked those living in the house which the Church had purchased in June 2006. Two young men (workers of the Church) were seriously injured. They were admitted to the Ratnapura hospital for treatment, with one requiring surgery.

7/12/2006 China (ChristianPost) Chinese Authorities Release House Church Filmmaker--A Chinese filmmaker detained while making a documentary about underground Christians was released after more than five months in police custody.

7/13/2006 Malaysia (IPS) Apex Court to Decide If Muslims Can--Both Muslims and non-Muslims keenly await the verdict of Malaysia's Federal Court on one of the most contentious issues it has ever examined -- whether the country's secular constitution, which guarantees freedom of worship, allows ethnic Malays to renounce Islam.