ASSIST News Service

• SAT-7 wins human rights award

  The Lebanese Center for Human Rights recently granted Juliana Sfeir, on behalf of SAT-7, the Human Rights Journalism Award.

• Randy Travis leaves hospital after stroke

  Country singer Randy Travis has left a Texas hospital and entered a physical therapy facility, his publicist said Wednesday.

• Uzbekistan: Violent police assault on Protestant

  Police in Uzbekistan have violently physically assaulted a local Protestant, and charged him with committing an offence after he insisted on making a formal complaint about police brutality.

• Archbishop of Canterbury speaks 'in tongues'

  During an interview with Charles Moore of The Daily Telegraph at Lambeth Palace, London, he was asked by Moore that since he was an evangelical, could he speak "in tongues"

• India: Converts face prison without permission from authorities

  India's Madhya Pradesh state has passed legislation that would send those who convert and their religious leaders to prison for failing to obtain permission from authorities at least one month prior to conversion.

• Christians killed in Nigeria's Plateau State

  Christian leaders say gunmen killed six Christians in an early morning attack on Dinu village in southern Plateau state, a month after Muslim Fulani herdsmen shot a Christian to death in a nearby village.

• New Sorted taxi hits London

  UK-based Christian men's magazine Sorted is operating its very own Sorted Taxi, a fully liveried London taxi branded with the magazine's graphics

• 8 Christians jailed in Iran

  Eight Iranian Christians received heavy jail sentences on July 16 after being found guilty of "action against the national security" and "propaganda against the system".

• New Testaments being distributed in Greece

  Over 300 volunteers will descend on the Biblical town of Neapolis (the modern Kavala) to partake in what is potentially the biggest evangelistic effort in the history of Greece.

• KP Yohannan's 'Touching Godliness' tops Amazon Christian Living

  More than 10,000 people downloaded the second edition of K P Yohannan's "Touching Godliness" with study guide in an extended-weekend offer, making it the highest ranked E-book in Amazon's weekly Christian Living category.

• Pakistan: Christian facing life imprisonment for blasphemy

  Convicted of blasphemy, Sajjad Masih Gill, 28, a Christian resident of District Pakpatan-Punjab, has been fined USD $2000 and is now looking at a life prison sentence.

• Church must repent of sin of anti-Semitism

  An Anglican clergyman has called on the Church to repent of its anti-Semitism, which he described as a sin against the Holy Spirit.