Anton frowned and pressed the ‘end call’ button on his phone after again receiving no answer from his mother, Mussalam, in Uzbekistan. He usually spoke with her every couple of days from his home in Russia.
Thirty-three-year-old Mrs Zhang Hongmei was arrested by Chinese police in October 2003 for participating in “illegal religious activities”.
On Sunday 23 October, militants attacked a hotel in Kismayo, a city in southern Somalia.
On Sunday 16 October, two gunmen attacked a church in northern Nigeria’s Kogi State during a worship service. The attackers rode to Celestial Church on motorbikes, wielding their guns before entering the building.
Two Iranian Christians have been released mid-sentence from the country’s notorious Evin Prison.
A Christian man and his children are in hiding after being threatened with death unless they convert to Islam.
On 24 October 2005, Ezzat Habib died after being purposefully hit by a taxi while crossing the street in Cairo, Egypt.
Front-line workers are ministering to many Christian women in Nigeria who have lost their husbands in attacks by Islamists in recent years.
At 3am on Friday 14 October, armed militants burst into the village of Masome in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and began violently attacking residents.
A local church was meeting on their leased property recently when an angry Hindu man interrupted the service, ordering the congregation to stop their Christian activities.