Christian persecutions continues in Mideast, Asia and Africa

4/4/13 (JNS.org) Christians continue to be persecuted in the Middle East, Asia and Africa through church attacks, blasphemy accusations and murders, states a summary by the Gatestone Institute of such incidents during January 2013. Four Coptic Christian-owned stores were torched in January in Egypt, and Egyptian authorities also neutralized a car filled with explosives before it could detonate near a Coptic church in which worshippers were celebrating Christmas. Also in Egypt, a court sentenced a woman, Nadia Mohamed Ali, and her seven children to 15 years in prison for converting to Christianity