10/13/06 Iraq (Asia News)Some 500 people attend funeral of beheaded priest - Some 500 people attended yesterday the funeral of Fr Paulos Eskandar at Mosul’s Syrian-Orthodox St Ephrem Church. Father Eskandar was abducted was founded beheaded some time later.

10/13/06 Pakistan (BosNewsLife)Pakistan Teenage Girl "Mercilessly Beaten” - A teenage girl was "mercilessly beaten and punished" by Muslim teachers at her school for "defending" her faith in Christ and wearing a cross, amid growing concern over violence against Christian women and girls in the Asian nation

10/13/06 Sri Lanka (ICC) Church Burned and People Visiting Pastor Threatened - A couple visiting the house of the pastor were accosted by some persons. They were threatened not to visit the Pastor and verbally abused.

10/14/06 Eritrea (BosNewsLife)Detained Eritrea Gospel Singer Berhane Rushed To Hospital -- Helen Berhane, an Eritrean Gospel singer jailed for singing about her faith in Christ has been transferred to a hospital in Eritrea's capital Asmara in serious condition.

10/16/06 Nigeria (Compass News Direct)Nigerian Teacher on Trial after Punishing Muslim Student - A Christian high school teacher at Government College in Keffi, in the northern state of Nasarawa, is on trial for blasphemy after he disciplined a Muslim student.

10/17/06 Pakistan (Assist)Christian Accused of Blasphemy Dies in Pakistan Jail - A Christian man who was sentenced to seven years in prison by a lower court in February 2005 for profaning the Quran, was found dead in a prison cell in the Central Jail in Bahawlnagar, Pakistan,

10/18/06 Indonesia (AsiaNews)Terrorism Behind Murder of Protestant Pastor in Palu --

National police said the murderers of Reverend Kongkoli could be linked to a terrorist group already suspected of beheading Christian girls in 2005. This group is connected to Jemaah Islamiyah.

10/18/06 Afghanistan (BBC)Afghan Kidnappers 'Want Convert' - The kidnappers of an Italian journalist in Afghanistan have offered to free him in exchange for a Christian convert who fled the country.