Christian girls beheaded in grisly Indonesian attack

Three teenage Christian girls were beheaded and a fourth was seriously wounded in a savage attack on Saturday by unidentified assailants in the Indonesian province of Central Sulawesi.

The girls were among a group of students from a private Christian high school who were ambushed while walking through a cocoa plantation in Poso Kota subdistrict on their way to class, police Major Riky Naldo said. Story

Document reveals strategy to 'fight religion'
Communists plan to 'eradicate' places of Christian worship
Posted: October 29, 2005

Vietnam officials in tribal areas vow to "fight religion," according to a secret document obtained by a U.S. group.

The document issued earlier this year by a local Vietnamese Communist party branch reveals an official policy of forcing ethnic minority Hmong Christians to give up their faith and of "eradicating" Christian meeting places, reports Freedom House's Center for Religious Freedom in Washington, D.C. The rest