• BWA Awards India's 'Living Saint' Top Rights Award

  The Baptist World Alliance awarded an Indian woman who cares for lepers, children infected with HIV/AIDS, and female sex workers its top human rights award this past weekend.

• China Reports 13 Million Abortions a Year

  Chinese health officials reported Thursday that compared to 20 million births, more than 13 million abortions are performed each year in China.

  

• Christian Group Feeds Nearly 150,000 in Pakistan's NWFP

  One of the world’s largest humanitarian organizations said it has helped feed nearly 150,000 internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Pakistan’s conflict-torn Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP).

• Lawyers to Defend Rights of N. Korean Refugees in China

  A group of human rights lawyers will defend a Chinese-Korean Christian woman who was jailed for helping to smuggle 61 North Koreans across the China border.

• Formerly Detained Eritrean Christians Expose Harsh Treatment

  After five months in a tiny pitch-black cell, Hzkias, an Eritrean Christian jailed for his faith, said he “looked like another creature.”