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Article: CIA Spy Inside Iran's Revolutionary Guard who Found Jesus
The link below is to an article reporting on the conversion of a CIA spy operating within Iran's Revolutionary Guard, who later escaped to the West.
http://blog.godreports.com/2012/07/the-cia-spy-inside-irans-revolutionary-guard-who-found-jesus/
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What A Beat Up
There can be no doubt that both Nick D'Arcy and Kenrick Monk have been rightly punished in the past for what they have done prior to the upcoming Olympic Games in the United Kingdom. It can probably be argued that they escaped fairly lightly in fact. However, the current 'scandal' surrounding both swimmers because they had a photo taken with some guns in the US is nothing more than a beat up, given they did nothing wrong in doing so.
Below are Wikipedia articles on both swimmers, as well as reports pertaining to the current 'scandal.'
Nick D'Arcy – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Nicholas James D'Arcy (born 23 July 1987, in Brisbane, Australia) is a national-record holding butterfly swimmer from Australia. He was r…
Kenrick Monk – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Kenrick John Monk (born 1 January 1988 in Blacktown) is an Australian swimmer who competed in the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, as wel…
Gun Pose Gets Aussie Swimmers in Trouble
In a move which will perplex many Americans (but probably not anyone else), two Australian Olympic swimmers are in trouble for posing wit…
D'Arcy and Monk apologise for gun photos
Nick D'Arcy and Kenrick Monk have apologised for their "fantastic" bit of fun, but still have to explain themselves to keep their spots i…
Brisbanetimes
Naughty swimmers to leave London early – Other Sports – Sportal Australia
Australian swimmers Nick D'Arcy and Kenrick Monk will leave London immediately after their events at the Olympic Games are over. Monk ear…
AOC punish D'Arcy and Monk for photos – News – BigPond Sport
Nick D'Arcy and Kenrick Monk will be sent home from the London Games by the Australian Olympic Committee as soon as their swimming events…
Bigpondsport
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After Fatwa, Pastor in Pakistan Beaten with Bricks
Convert, a former fighter in Afghanistan, had protested Islamic attack.
SARGODHA, Pakistan, November 5 (CDN) — Muslim extremists in Islamabad on Monday (Nov. 1) beat with bricks and hockey sticks a Christian clergyman who is the subject of a fatwa demanding his death.
The Rev. Dr. Suleman Nasri Khan, a former fighter in Afghanistan before his conversion to Christianity in 2000, suffered a serious head injury, a hairline fracture in his arm and a broken bone in his left ankle in the assault by 10 Muslim extremists; he was able to identify two of them as Allama Atta-Ullah Attari and Allama Masaud Hussain.
The attack in Chashma, near Iqbal Town in Islamabad, followed Islamic scholar Allama Nawazish Ali's Oct. 25th fatwa (religious ruling) to kill Khan, pastor of Power of the Healing God's Church in the Kalupura area of Gujrat city. A mufti (Islamic scholar) and member of Dawat-e-Islami, which organizes studies of the Quran and Sunnah (sayings and deeds of Muhammad), Ali is authorized to issue fatwas.
Khan, 34, had relocated to a rented apartment in Islamabad after fleeing his home in Gujrat because of death threats against him and his family, he said. The fatwa, a religious order to be obeyed by all Muslims, was issued after Khan protested anti-Christian violence in Kalupura last month.
Muslim extremists who learned of his conversion had first attacked Khan in 2008 – killing his first child, 3-month old Sana Nasri Khan. He and wife Aster Nasri Khan escaped.
"During the Kalupura Christian colony attacks, once again it came into the attention of Muslim men that I was a converted Christian who had recanted Islam, deemed as humiliation of Islam by them," Khan said.
In this week's attack, Khan also sustained minor rib injuries and several minor cuts and bruises. He said the Muslim radicals pelted him with stones and bricks while others kicked him in the chest and stomach. They also tried to force him to recite Islam's creed for conversion; he refused.
On Monday night (Nov. 1) Khan had gone out to buy milk for a daughter born on July 19 – named after the daughter who was killed in 2008, Sana Nasri Khan – when during the wee hours of the night five unidentified Muslim extremists began kicking and pounding on the door.
"When my wife asked who they were, they replied, 'We have learned that you have disgraced Islam by recanting, therefore we will set your house on fire," Khan told Compass. "When my wife told them that I was not at home, they left a letter threatening to torch the house and kill my whole family and ordered me to recant Christianity and embrace Islam."
Khan had sold some of his clothes at a pawnshop in order to buy milk for the baby, as he has been financially supporting six Christian families from his congregation who are on a Muslim extremist hit list. Islamic militants have cordoned off parts of Kalupura, patrolling the area to find and kill the families of Allah Rakha Masih, Boota Masih, Khalid Rehmat, Murad Masih Gill, Tariq Murad Gill and Rashid Masih.
Often feeding her 5-month-old daughter water mixed with salt and sugar instead of milk or other supplements, Aster Nasri Khan said she was ready to die of starvation for the sake of Jesus and His church. Before her beaten husband was found, she said she had heard from neighbors that some Muslim men had left him unconscious on a roadside, thinking he was dead.
The Rev. Arif Masih of Power of the Healing God's Church in Islamabad told Compass that he was stunned to find Khan unconscious in a pool of blood on the roadside. Saying he couldn't go to police or a hospital out of fear that Muslims would level apostasy charges against Khan, Masih said he took him to the nearby private clinic of Dr. Naeem Iqbal Masih. Khan received medical treatment there while remaining unconscious for almost four hours, Masih said.
Born into a Muslim family, Khan had joined the now-defunct Islamic militant group Harkat-ul-Mujahideen, which later emerged as Jaish-e-Muhammad, fighting with them for eight and half years in Kashmir and Afghanistan.
While fighting in Afghanistan's civil war in 2000, he said, he found a New Testament lying on the battlefield. He immediately threw it away, but a divine voice seemed to be extending an invitation to him, he said. When he later embraced Christ, he began preaching and studying – ending up with a doctorate in biblical theology from Punjab Theological Seminary in Kasur in 2005.
Upon learning of the Oct. 25 fatwa against him, Khan immediately left Gujrat for Islamabad, he said. He was living in hiding in Chashma near Iqbal Town when Muslims paid his landlord, Munir Masih, to reveal to them that Khan was living at his house as a tenant, he said. A young Christian whose name is withheld for security reasons informed Khan of the danger on Oct. 29, he said.
The young Christian told him that Munir Masih revealed his whereabouts to Allama Atta-Ullah Attari, a member of Dawat-e-Islami.
Khan said he confided to Christian friends about the dangers before him, and they devised a plan to hide his family in Bara Koh, a small town near Islamabad.
"But as I had sold and spent everything to help out Kalupura Christians," he said, "I was penniless and therefore failed to move on and rent a house there."
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Hundreds of Muslim radicals escape from prison; Christians concerned
International Christian Concern (ICC) has told the ASSIST News Service (ANS) that it has learned that more than 700 members of an Islamic extremist group, Boko Haram, escaped two days ago (Tuesday, September 7, 2010) after suspected fellow members of the group raided a prison where they were being held in Bauchi, northern Nigeria, reports Dan Wooding, founder of ASSIST Ministries.
"A group of armed men attacked the prison at 6:40 PM and fought with the prison guards for two hours. At least four people were reportedly killed during the shootout," said an ICC spokesperson.
"Boko Haram opposes western education and fights to impose Sharia [Islamic] law throughout Nigeria, including areas that are majority Christian. The group has repeatedly targeted the police and Christian communities."
ICC stated that Christian leaders in northern Nigeria are alarmed by the massive escape of Boko Haram members. In July 2009, members of Boko Haram carried out attacks against Nigerian police officials leading to the death of more than 700 people. Members of Boko Haram also killed a dozen Christians, including Pastor Sabo Yakubu, Rev. Sylvester O. Akpan and Rev. George Orjhi.
"[The escape from prison] is a clear indication of anarchy. Boko Haram is a threat to Christians in northeastern part of Nigeria where Christians were killed, including pastors killed and church burned down. More people could be killed if they are not checked," said Rev. John Hayab. Rev. Hayab is the General Secretary of the Christian Association of Nigerian's Kaduna State chapter.
Jonathan Racho, ICC's Regional Manager for Africa, told ANS, "We are extremely concerned by the escape of Boko Haram members from prison. This is yet another indication of the failure by Nigerian authorities to protect their citizens from the violence by Islamic extremist groups. We urge Nigerian officials to immediately re-arrest the escapees and protect the citizens of the country from future attacks."
Note: ICC is a Washington-DC based human rights organization that exists to help persecuted Christians worldwide. ICC provides Awareness, Advocacy, and Assistance to the worldwide persecuted Church. For additional information or for an interview, contact ICC at 800-422-5441. Their website is: www.persecution.org.
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Vietnam stepping up religious rights abuses, experts say
Government-perpetrated violence against a Catholic village in Vietnam has highlighted a series of human rights abuses in the communist nation, and three U.S. congressmen are calling on the United Nations to intervene, reports Baptist Press.
"A few months ago during a religious funeral procession, Vietnamese authorities and riot police disrupted that sad and solemn occasion, shooting tear gas and rubber bullets into the crowd, beating mourners with batons and electric rods," Rep. Chris Smith, R.-N.J., said at a hearing of the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission in August.
"More than 100 were injured, dozens were arrested and several remain in custody and have reportedly been severely beaten and tortured. At least two innocent people have been murdered by the Vietnamese police," Smith said.
The Con Dau tragedy, Smith said, "is unfortunately not an isolated incident." Property disputes between the government and the Catholic church continue to lead to harassment, property destruction and violence, Smith said, referring to a report by the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom.
"In recent years, the Vietnamese government has stepped up its persecution of Catholic believers, bulldozing churches, dismantling crucifixes and wreaking havoc on peaceful prayer vigils," Smith said.
Persecution is not limited to Catholics, though, as Smith had a list of nearly 300 Montagnard political and religious prisoners. In January, the Vietnamese government sentenced two Montagnard Christians to 9 and 12 years imprisonment for organizing a house church, and others have been arrested in connection with house churches, Smith said.
"The arrests were accompanied by beatings and torture by electroshock devices," the congressman said. "We must not forget the sufferings of Khmer Krom Buddhists, Cao Dai, Hoa Hao, the Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam and others. The said reality is that the Vietnamese government persecutes any religious group that does not submit to government control."
The violence in the 80-year-old Catholic village of Con Dau in central Vietnam reportedly stemmed from a government directive for residents to abandon the village to make way for the construction of a resort.
International Christian Concern, a Washington-based watchdog group, reported that when Con Dau residents refused to leave, water irrigation was shut off to their rice fields, stopping the main source of income and food.
In May, police attacked the funeral procession, beating more than 60 people, including a pregnant woman who was struck in the stomach until she had a miscarriage, ICC said.
One of the funeral procession leaders later was confronted by police in his home, where they beat him for about four hours and then released him. He died the next day, ICC said. Eight people remain in police custody and are awaiting trial.
"The people of Con Dau are living in desperate fear and confusion," Thang Nguyen, executive director of an organization representing Con Dau victims, told ICC. "Hundreds of residents have been fined, and many have escaped to Thailand."
Smith, along with Rep. Joseph Cao, R.-La., and Frank Wolf, R.-Va., introduced a House resolution in July calling for the United Nations to appoint a special investigator to probe "ongoing and serious human rights violations in Vietnam." In August, the Lantos Commission met in emergency session to address the "brutal murders and systematic treatment of Catholics in Con Dau."
"The Vietnamese government justifies this violence, torture and murder because the villagers of Con Dau had previously been ordered, some through coercion, to leave their village, property, church, century-old cemetery, their religious heritage, and to forgo equitable compensation in order to make way for a new 'green' resort," Smith said at the hearing. "Nothing, however, not even governmental orders, grant license for government-sanctioned murder and other human rights abuses."
The U.S. Department of State declined to testify before the Lantos Commission, and the U.S. ambassador to Vietnam characterized the Con Dau incident as a land dispute and refused to get involved.
Logan Maurer, a spokesman for International Christian Concern, told Baptist Press he has publicized about 10 different incidents of persecution in Vietnam during the past few months.
"In some cases, especially in Southeast Asia, religious persecution becomes a gray area. We also work extensively in Burma, where often there are mixed motives for why a particular village is attacked," Maurer said. "Is it because they're Christian? Well, partially. Is it because they're an ethnic minority? Partially.
"So I think the same thing happens in Vietnam where you have a whole village that's Catholic. One hundred percent of it was Catholic," he said of Con Dau.
Maurer explained that local government officials in Vietnam generally align Christianity with the western world and democracy, which is still seen as an enemy in Vietnam on a local level.
"As far as the official government Vietnamese position, that's different, but local government officials do not take kindly to Christians and never have. We have documented many cases of government officials saying Christianity is the enemy. So here it's mixed motives as best we can figure out," Maurer said.
"They wanted to build a resort there, and they could have picked a different village but they chose the one on purpose that was Catholic because it represents multiple minorities — minority religion, minority also in terms of people that can't fight back. If they go seek government help, the government is not going to help them."
A Christian volunteer who has visited Vietnam five times in the past decade told Baptist Press the Con Dau incident illustrates the way the Vietnamese government responds to any kind of dissent.
"In our country, and in modern democracies, there are methods for resolving disputes with the government, taking them to court, trying to work through the mediation process," the volunteer, who did not want to be identified, said. "In Vietnam there is no such thing. It is the government's will or there will be violence."
Vietnam's constitution includes a provision for religious liberty, but the volunteer said that only goes as far as the communal will of the people, which is monopolized by the Communist Party.
"So when the Communist Party says you can't build a church there or you can't worship this way, those who say, 'Well, I have religious freedom,' are essentially trumped by the constitution that says it's the will of the people, not individual liberty that's important," the volunteer said.
The government in Vietnam has made efforts during the past 15 years to open up the country to economic development, and with that has come an influx of some western values and a lot of Christians doing work there, the volunteer said.
"I would first caution Christians to still be careful when they're there working," he said, adding that government officials closely watch Christians who visit from other countries, and books about Jesus cause trouble.
Secondly, the volunteer warned that all news emerging from Vietnam must be tested for accuracy on both sides because both those who are persecuting and those who are sounding the alarm on persecution have their own political goals.
"That being said, I don't doubt that this happened," the volunteer said regarding Con Dau.
International Christian Concern urges Americans to contact the Vietnamese Embassy in Washington at 202-861-0737, and the Christian volunteer said people can contact the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom to encourage changes in Vietnam.
"They can also directly e-mail the ambassador and the consular general in Ho Chi Minh City and encourage them to push for more reform," he said. "And they can contact companies that are having products made in Vietnam and encourage the business leaders to speak out for change in those countries. You go to JC Penney today in the men's department and pick up almost anything, it's made in Vietnam. That's the kind of pressure they could put on them."
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Christians Accused of 'Blasphemy' Slain in Pakistan
Two leaders shot outside courtroom after handwriting report threatened to exonerate them.
FAISALABAD, Pakistan, July 19 (CDN) — Today suspected Islamic extremists outside a courthouse here shot dead two Christians accused of "blaspheming" Muhammad, the prophet of Islam.
The gunmen shot the Rev. Rashid Emmanuel, 32, and his 30-year-old brother Sajid Emmanuel, days after handwriting experts on Wednesday (July 14) notified police that signatures on papers denigrating Muhammad did not match those of the accused. Expected to be exonerated soon, the two leaders of United Ministries Pakistan were being led in handcuffs back to jail under police custody when they were shot at 2:17 p.m., Christians present said.
Rizwan Paul, president of advocacy group Life for All, said five armed, masked men opened fire on the two Christians amid crowds outside Faisalabad District and Sessions Court.
"Five armed, masked men attacked and opened fire on the two accused," Paul said. "Sajid died on the spot," while Rashid Emmanuel died later.
Rai Naveed Zafar Bhatti of the Christian Lawyers' Foundation (CLF) and Atif Jamil Pagaan, coordinator of Harmony Foundation, said an unknown assailant shot Sajid Emmanuel in the heart, killing him instantly, and also shot Rashid Emmanuel in the chest. Pagaan said Sub-Inspector Zafar Hussein was also shot trying to protect the suspects and was in critical condition at Allied Hospital in Faisalabad.
CLF President Khalid Gill said the bodies of the two Christians bore cuts and other signs of having been tortured, including marks on their faces, while the brothers were in police custody.
As news of the murders reached the slain brothers' neighborhood of Dawood Nagar, Waris Pura, Faisalabad, Christians came out of their homes to vent their anger, Pagaan said. Police fired teargas cannons at Christian protestors, who in turn threw stones.
"The situation is very tense," Gill said. "Police have arrested eight people for damaging property and burning tires."
Paul of Life for All said tensions remained high.
"The situation in Faisalabad has deteriorated," Paul said. "Indiscriminate shootings between Christians and Muslims have ensued. The situation has become very volatile, and local police have initiated a curfew."
The courthouse shooters escaped, and Punjab's inspector general has reportedly suspended the superintendent of police and his deputy superintendent for their failure to provide security to the slain brothers.
Lynch Mob Mentality
The report by handwriting experts to Civil Lines police station in Faisalabad presented a major setback to the case filed against Emmanuel and his younger brother under Section 295-C of Pakistan's widely condemned blasphemy laws.
Muslims staged large demonstrations in the past week calling for the death penalty for the brothers, who were arrested when Rashid Emmanuel agreed to meet a mysterious caller at a train station but was instead surrounded by police carrying photocopied papers that denigrated Muhammad – supposedly signed by the pastor and his brother and bearing their telephone numbers.
The Muslim who allegedly placed the anonymous call to the pastor, Muhammad Khurram Shehzad, was the same man who filed blasphemy charges against Emmanuel and his brother and was already present at the Civil Lines police station when the pastor and an unnamed Christian arrived in handcuffs, said Pagaan of Harmony Foundation. Civil Lines police station is located in Dawood Nagar, Waris Pura, in Faisalabad.
Pagaan said that on July 1 Rashid Emmanuel received an anonymous phone call from a man requesting to see him, but the pastor declined as he was due to lead a prayer service in Railways Colony, Faisalabad. After the service, Emmanuel received a call at about 8 p.m. from the same man, who this time described himself as a respectable school teacher.
Pagaan said that Emmanuel agreed to meet him at the train station, accompanied by the unnamed Christian. As they reached the station, Civil Lines police surrounded them, showed them photocopies of a three-page document and arrested them for blaspheming Muhammad.
Sources told Compass that police released the young, unnamed Christian after a couple hours, and on July 4 officers arrested Emmanuel's younger brother, a graduate student of business.
On July 10 and 11 hundreds of enraged Muslims paraded to the predominantly Christian colony of Dawood Nagar calling for the immediate death of the two Christian brothers. Some chanted, "Hang the blasphemers to death immediately," sources said, adding that the mob hurled obscenities at Christ, Christians and Christianity.
Islamic extremists led the protests, and most participants were teenagers who pelted the main gate of the Waris Pura Catholic Church with stones, bricks and shards of glass and pounded the gate with bamboo clubs.
Some 500 protestors gathered on July 10, while on July 11 more than 1,600 demonstrated, according to Joseph Francis, head of Centre for Legal Aid Assistance and Settlement. Fearful Christians locked their homes, while others fled the area, as the demonstrators had threatened a repeat of the violence wreaked on Korian and Gojra towns in July and August 2009.
Nazim Gill, a resident of Waris Pura, told Compass that Muslims burned tires and chanted slogans against Christians last week, and that on Friday (July 16) announcements blared from mosque loudspeakers calling on Muslims "burn the houses of Christians."
Khalid Gill contacted authorities to request help, and police forbid anyone to do any damage.
Saying "continuous gunshots have been heard for the past five hours now," Kashif Mazhar of Life for All today said that Punjab Chief Minister Mian Shahbaz Sharif had ordered the provincial inspector general to restore law and order and arrest the murderers of the Christian brothers.
Other Victims
Khurram Shehzad had filed the blasphemy case on July 1 under Section 295-C of Pakistan's blasphemy laws, which are commonly abused to settle personal scores.
Section 295-C states that "whoever by words, either spoken or written, or by visible representation, or by imputation, innuendo, or insinuation, directly or indirectly, defiles the sacred name of the Holy Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) shall be punishable with death, or imprisonment for life, and shall be liable to fine."
Section 295-A of the blasphemy laws prohibits injuring or defiling places of worship and "acts intended to outrage religious feelings of any class of citizens." Section 295-B makes willful desecration of the Quran or a use of its extract in a derogatory manner punishable with life imprisonment.
Khalid Gill said Khurram Shehzad, a merchant of Rail Bazar, Faisalabad, filed the charge after his servant told him that the two Christians had put up blasphemous posters at a truck station.
The Emmanuel brothers had been running United Ministries Pakistan for the last two years in Dawood Nagar, area Christians said.
The last known Christian to die as a result of a false blasphemy charge was Robert Danish on Sept. 15, 2009. The 22-year-old Christian was allegedly tortured to death while in custody in Sialkot on a charge of blaspheming the Quran. Local authorities claimed he committed suicide.
Area Christians suspect police killed Danish, nicknamed "Fanish" or "Falish" by friends, by torturing him to death after the mother of his Muslim girlfriend contrived a charge against him of desecrating Islam's scripture. The allegation led to calls from mosque loudspeakers to punish Christians, prompting an Islamic mob to attack a church building in Jathikai village on Sept. 11 and the beating of several of the 30 families forced to flee their homes. Jathikai was Danish's native village.
Three prison officials were reportedly suspended after Danish died in custody.
In other recent blasphemy cases, on July 5 a Christian family from Model Town, Lahore, fled their home after Yousaf Masih, his wife Bashrian Bibi and their son-in-law Zahid Masih were accused of blaspheming the Quran. Some 2,000 Muslims protested and tried to burn their house, Christian sources aid.
Police have filed a case against them due to pressure from Muslim mobs, but local sources say the allegations grew out of personal enmity.
Faisalabad was the site of the suicidal protest of Bishop John Joseph. The late Roman Catholic bishop of Faisalabad took his own life in May 6, 1998 to protest the injustice of Pakistan's blasphemy laws.
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Muslims in Pakistan Kidnap, Rape Christian Girl
Five men threatened to kill her unless her father allowed one to marry her.
RAWALPINDI, Pakistan, June 16 (CDN) — Five Muslims here kidnapped and raped a Christian girl after threatening to kill her unless her father allowed one of them to marry her.
Lazarus Masih said one of his three daughters, 14, was kidnapped on May 29 by five men identified only as Guddu, Kamran, Waqas, Adil and Ali.
Police recovered her on June 6 in a raid on the home where she was being held, though the suspects escaped.
"They threatened that if I don't get her married to Guddu, they would kill her," Masih said. "One of them said, 'We attended an Islamic religious convention, and the speaker said if you marry a non-Muslim or rape a non-Muslim girl, you will get 70 virgins in heaven."
He said that when he and his wife returned from work at around 11 a.m. on May 29, their 14-year-old daughter was not at home; his other daughters had been at school and said they did not know where she had gone.
During the family's search for her, they heard from Masih's brother-in-law, Yousaf Masih, that he had seen five Muslim men follow her earlier that morning.
"In the morning around 7:30 a.m., I saw that [name withheld] and another girl were sitting in a rickshaw and five Muslim guys – Guddu, Kamran, Waqas, Adil and Ali – followed the rickshaw," Yousaf Masih told the girl's father.
Family members said the suspects took her to a house near Islamabad, where they gave her a drug that rendered her unconscious, and raped her. A medical report confirmed that she was given drugs and raped.
Lazarus Masih, who lives with his daughters and wife in Mohalla Raja Sultan, Rawalpindi, filed a First Information Report at the Waris Khan police station on June 1 against all five men. He said Guddu, Kamran and Waqas sell and use drugs.
He also contacted advocacy organization Ephlal Ministry, which along with representatives of Life for All and Peace Pakistan met with police chief Mazhar Hussain Minhas and demanded immediate action for the recovery of the girl.
"This is a very sad incident, and we will do whatever we can to recover the girl," Hussain Minhas told them.
Devastated family members said the girl remained frightened and was not speaking to anyone.
"It is such a shame that the religious leaders teach inhuman acts," said the Rev. John Gill of Shamsabad Catholic Church. "This incident has ruined the life of an innocent child."
The family formerly belonged to the Catholic parish but now affiliates with a Protestant church, New Life Ministry in Rawalpindi.
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Buddhist Extremists in Bangladesh Beat, Take Christians Captive
Pastor, two others held in pagoda in attempt to force them back to Buddhism.
DHAKA, Bangladesh, April 23 (CDN) — Buddhist members of an armed rebel group and their sympathizers are holding three tribal Christians captive in a pagoda in southeastern Bangladesh after severely beating them in an attempt to force them to return to Buddhism, Christian sources said.
Held captive since April 16 are Pastor Shushil Jibon Talukder, 55; Bimol Kanti Chakma, 50; and Laksmi Bilas Chakma, 40, of Maddha Lemuchari Baptist Church in Lemuchari village, in Mohalchari sub-district of the mountainous Khagrachari district, some 300 kilometers (186 miles) southeast of Dhaka. They are to be kept in the pagoda for 15 to 20 days as punishment for having left the Buddhist religion, the sources said.
Local Buddhists are considered powerful as they have ties with the United Peoples Democratic Front (UPDF), an armed group in the hill districts.
After taking the Christians captive on April 16, the sources said, the next day the armed Buddhist extremists forced other Christians of Maddha Lemuchari Baptist Church to demolish their church building by their own hands. The extremists first seized all blankets, Bibles and song books from the church building.
The sources said two UPDF members went to Pastor Talukder's house at 7 a.m. on April 16, telling him to go to a Buddhist community leader's house in a nearby village. The Buddhist leader also ordered all members of the Baptist church to come to his house, and about 15 Christians did so.
After a brief dispute, the Buddhists chose the pastor and the two other Christians and began beating them, seriously injuring the pastor. They then took them to a nearby pagoda for Buddhist baptism, shaving their heads and dressing them in saffron robes as part of a conversion ritual.
The sources said Pastor Talukder was bludgeoned nearly to death.
"The pastor was beaten so seriously that he could not walk to the nearby pagoda," said one source. "Buddhist people took him on a wooden stretcher, which is used for carrying a dead body for burial or cremation."
Pastor Talukder was treated in the pagoda with intravenous, hypodermic injections that saved his life, the source said.
The Buddhist extremists were said to be forcing other Christians to undergo Buddhist baptism in the pagoda and to embrace Buddhism.
A source in Khagrachari district told Compass that local UPDF Buddhists had been mounting pressure on the Christians since their church began in the area in early 2007.
"They gave vent to their anger on Christians in a violent outburst by beating the pastor and two others after failing several attempts in the past to stop their evangelical activities," the source said. "They took them into a pagoda to convert them forcibly to Buddhism."
In June the Buddhists had threatened to harm Pastor Talukder if he did not give up his Christian faith. The pastor escaped and hid in different churches for two months. Later he came back in the area and began his pastoral and evangelical activities anew.
"They also made threats and gave ultimatums to three or four other churches in the locality to try to force them to come back to Buddhism," the source said.
'Social Deviation'
Regional Sub-district Chairman Sona Ratan Chakma told Compass that the "three renegade Buddhists" are being kept in the pagoda for religious indoctrination.
"They became Christian, and they were breaking the rules and customs of the Buddhist society, so elders of the society were angry with them," Chakma said. "That is why they were sent to a pagoda for 15 to 20 days for their spiritual enlightenment, so that they can come back to their previous place [Buddhism]."
Chakma said the Christians have not been tortured but given punishment proportionate to the gravity of their "social deviation."
"They were punished so that they can come to their senses," he said.
The Rev. Leor P. Sarkar, general secretary of Bangladesh Baptist Church Fellowship, told Compass that the UPDF's ultimatum was of grave concern.
"This armed group issued an ultimatum that by April 30 all Christians should come back to Buddhism, otherwise all of them will face the same consequences," said Sarkar.
Christians are virtually in a state of siege by the UPDF, he said. None of them go to church buildings on the traditional worship days of Friday or Sunday, instead worshipping in their own houses.
Sarkar added that the tribal Christians do not have any political conflict with the UPDF.
"They simply persecute them for their faith in Christ," he said. "Their only demand to us is to go back to Buddhism."
The UPDF's order to give up their faith is a matter of life and death, Sarkar said.
"A ripple of unknown fear gripped the entire Christian community there," he said. "Everybody took fright from that menacing cruelty. The everyday life of Christians is hampered, beset with threats, hatred and ostracism. So it is a social catastrophe."
The church leader urgently appealed to local government officials to come to the aid of the kidnapped Christians.
The UPDF is one of two main tribal organizations in the hill districts, the other being the United People's Party of the Chittagong Hill Tracts (Parbatya Chattagram Jana Sanghati Samiti, or PCJSS). The PCJSS, formed in 1973, had fought for autonomy in the region for 25 years, leaving nearly 8,500 troops, rebels and civilians killed. After signing a peace accord in 1997 with the Bangladesh government, the PCJSS laid down arms.
But the UPDF, a political party founded in 1998 based in the Chittagong Hill Tracts, has strong and serious reservations against the Chittagong Hill Tracts Accord signed 1997. Claiming that the agreement failed to address fundamental demands of the indigenous Jumma people, the UPDF has pledged to fight for their full autonomy.
Last year the PCJSS demanded that the government ban the UPDF for their terrorist activities in the hill districts.
The Chittagong Hill Tracts region comprises three districts: Bandarban, Khagrachuri and Rangamati. The region is surrounded by the Indian states of Tripura on the north and Mizoram on the east, Myanmar on the south and east.
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(RTTNews) - Japan had current account surplus of 2,676.8 billion yen in February, the Ministry of Finance said on Monday.
That exceeded expectations for a surplus of 2,633.5 billion yen following the 600.4 billion yen surplus in January.
Exports were down 1.9 percent on year to 6,307.0 billion yen, while imports skidded an annual 6.6 percent to 5,817.8 billion yen.
The trade surplus came in at 489.2 billion yen, shy of expectations for 591.3 billion yen but up from the 964.8 billion yen deficit in the previous month.
The adjusted current account showed a surplus of 1,957.6 billion, beating forecasts for 1,920.9 billion yen and up from 1,833.0 billion yen a month earlier.


Antal Bíró left Várpalota at the age of fifteen, where he spent his childhood since 1910. After traveling through Transdanubia, Transylvania, Austria and Finland in 1923, in 1928, arrived in Paris. He became a "cartoonist" for newspapers and began his artistic studies. He was a resident of the Montparnasse, and from 1932 he studied at the Grande Chaumière Academy. In 1934 he traveled for a longer journey, this time to North Africa. After returning to France, his cartoons did not only succeed in Paris, but according to contemporary newspapers, he exhibited in Rennes, where he was the most "spectacle" of the Exposition-Foire with locally produced cartoons.
From 1933 to 1939, Károly Koffán, who lived in Paris, observed his talents and encouraged him to return to Budapest, to enroll in the College of Fine Arts. In 1940 István Szőnyi and Lajos Nándor Varga became his masters. In 1944 he worked with his fellow students, Judit Reigl, Simon Hantai, Zugor Sandor and Lipot Böhm "Poldi" at the artist colony. In addition to his many other works, the Hungarian National Gallery bought one of his paintings. In 1946, the New Moon magazine published his drawings.
With his fellow students he went to Rome with a scholarship in 1946, for two years with the invitation of Tibor Kardos, who was the director of the Hungarian Academy of Rome. In 1948 he traveled to Sweden where he got married. In 1949 he taught at a painting school in Kinna, a small Swedish town.
After he left Sweden and returned to the Montparnasse, where he had a studio in the famous " La Ruche", in 1950 he was reunited with her friend Judit Reigl, who just arrived in Paris with David Tissa. His classmates Francois Fiedler, Simon Hantai, Zsuzsa Bíró and Adam Sjöholm were already living in Paris.
He settled in Menton in 1964, from 1968 he appeared on the three subsequent Menton Biennials. In 1970, Fourmaintraux Delassus & C.E.C. of desquers of several centuries-old traditions made a ceramic tapestry, ceramic plant, and in 1971 a fresco in the Saint-Hyacinthe chapel in Sospel. In 1972, he presented the artist with the title "Formes et Prospective" at the Galerie Rencont. Between 1973-79 he was a member of the Lervik Artists' Colony, founded by his wife, and lived and exhibited in Strömstadt, in 1979 and 1988, it was a one man show exhibition at the Menton Palais Carnolês.
After learning about yoga and Indian philosophy in India, he opened a yoga school in Menton to ensure his livelihood and full freedom of his art. At the door of his house, this prescription received the "Freedom, Conscience, Responsibility, Light, Color".
Bíró was led by the symbolic meaning in applying the colors: red was standing for blood, the inner life. Yellow was the light, and the mauve was the genius. In the early sixties, a Menton journalist Jean Bomy asked why he became an abstract painter and replied, "Because I was tired of figurative images. During his search, the painter is liberated and purified. [...] The painter does not have to copy what he sees but must display what he feels. [...] Abstract and figurative paintings apply equally when it comes from within. " At the end of his life he returned home to Hungary. His lyrical and gestational abstract paintings are part of the post war School of Paris.
Artworks of Antal Bíró are available at the Kálmán Makláry Fine Arts.
- B., P. Europa, Menton (FR).


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Q: Loop : How to know if last row not return 3 item per-row Below is code for loop and will show 3 items for each rows. But how to know if last row not return 3 item per-row but return 1 or 2 ? Because i want to echo $x in last row to make sure the last row will show at least 3 item including [ item - ads].
$x = '[ item - ads]';

for ($i=1;$i<11;$i++) {

    echo ' [ item '.$i.'] ';

    $e = $i / 3;
    if (is_int($e)) {
        echo " - Rows $e ";
        echo '</br>';

    }
}

Result :
[ item 1] [ item 2] [ item 3] - Rows 1
[ item 4] [ item 5] [ item 6] - Rows 2
[ item 7] [ item 8] [ item 9] - Rows 3
[ item 10]

the result should be like this :
[ item 1] [ item 2] [ item 3] - Rows 1
[ item 4] [ item 5] [ item 6] - Rows 2
[ item 7] [ item 8] [ item 9] - Rows 3
[ item 10] [ item - ads] [ item - ads]

A: To answer your question without just providing working code:
$remainder = $total % 3;

For example:
$remainder = 10 % 3;
echo $remainder;
// returns 1

The percentage sign (or modulus operator) returns the remainder from deviding by 3.
Following up on that, you can try an approach like:
$numberOfAds = 3 - ($total % 3);

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This is not the official version.
Copyright © 1998: City of St. John's,
St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada
(Includes disclaimer and copyright information and details about the availability of printed and electronic versions of the By-Laws.)
BY-LAW NO. 1405
AMENDMENT NO. 1460, & 1508
NOISE BY-LAW
PASSED BY COUNCIL ON April 21, 98
Pursuant to the powers vested in it under the City of St. John's Act, RSNL 1990 c.C-17, as amended, a Memorandum of Agreement between the City of St. John's and the Royal Newfoundland Constabulary, and all other powers enabling it, the City of St. John's enacts the following by-law relating to the regulation of noise.
ST. JOHN'S NOISE BY-LAW
1.	This By-Law may be cited as the "St. John's Noise By-Law".
2.	In this By-Law
(a) "Engine Brake" means a device used in a truck or truck tractor to slow or brake the said vehicles by means of closing the exhaust valves on the engines of the said vehicles, or other similar devices. (Amended 2003/04/14; #1460)
(b)	"Permitted Use" has the same meaning as in the St. John's Land Use Zoning and Subdivision Regulations;
(c)	"Point of Reception" means any exterior point on the property of a person where sound, originating from other property, is received;
(d)	"Residential Use" has the same meaning as in the St. John's Land Use Zoning and Subdivision Regulations;
(e)	"Residential Zone" means a zone as established in the St. John's Land Use Zoning and Subdivision Regulations in which a Residential Use is a Permitted Use; and
(f)	"Special Event" has the same meaning as in the City of St. John's Special Events Policy.
3.	No person shall emit or cause or permit the emission of sound resulting from an act listed herein, and which sound is clearly audible at a Point of Reception:
(1)	The operation of any electronic device or group of connected electronic devices incorporating one or more loudspeakers or other electro-mechanical transducers, and intended for the production, reproduction or amplification of sound.
(2)	The operation of an engine or motor in, or on, any motor vehicle or item of attached auxiliary equipment for such continuous period exceeding twenty (20) minutes, while such vehicle is stationary in a Residential Zone unless;
(i)	operation of such motor or engine is essential to a basic function of the vehicle or equipment, but not limited to, operation of ready-mixed concrete trucks; or
(ii)	weather conditions justify the use of heating or refrigerating systems powered by the motor or engine for the safety and welfare of the operator, passengers or animals, or the preservation of perishable cargo, and the vehicle is stationary for the purposes of delivery or loading.
(3)	The detonation of fireworks or explosive devices not used in construction, unless authorized by the Office of the Fire Commissioner and the St. John's Regional Fire Department.
(4)	Loading, unloading, delivering, packing, unpacking or otherwise handling any containers, products, materials, or refuse, whatsoever, unless necessary for the maintenance of essential services or the moving of private household effects between 11:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m daily in, or within 100 metres of, a Residential Zone.
(5)	The operation of any equipment in connection with construction between 11:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m. daily in, or within 100 metres of, a Residential Zone.
(6)	The operation or use of any tool for domestic purposes other than snow removal between 11:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m. daily.
(7)	The operation of solid waste bulk lift or refuse compacting equipment between 11:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m. daily in, or within 100 metres of, a Residential Zone.
3.1 No person shall, except in the case of an emergency, use an Engine Brake of any kind to slow or stop a motor vehicle. (Amended 2003/04/14; #1460)
4.	Notwithstanding any other provision of this By-Law, it shall be lawful to emit or cause or permit the emission of sound or vibration in connection with emergency measures undertaken:
(a)	for the immediate health, safety or welfare of the inhabitants of any of them: or
(b)	for the preservation or restoration of property, unless such sound or vibration is clearly of a longer duration or nature more disturbing than is reasonably necessary for the accomplishment of such emergency purpose.
5.	(1)	Notwithstanding anything contained in this By-Law, any person may make application to Council to be granted an exemption from any of the provisions of this By-Law with respect to any source of sound for which he might be prosecuted and Council, by resolution, may refuse to grant any exemption or may grant the exemption applied for or any exemption of lesser effect and any exemption granted shall specify the time period, not in excess of six months, during which it is effective and may contain such terms and conditions as Council sees fit.
(2)	The application referred to in subsection (1) shall be made in writing and shall contain:
(a)	the name and address of the applicant;
(b)	a description of the source of sound in respect of which exemption is sought;
(c)	a statement of the particular provision or provisions of the By-Law for which exemption is sought;
(d)	the period of time, of a duration not in excess of six months, for which the exemption is sought;
(e)	the reasons why the exemption should be granted; and
(f)	a statement of the steps, if any, planned or presently being taken to bring about compliance with the By-Law.
(3)	Council shall cause one copy of the application for exemption to be delivered to the Director of Building and Property Management and he shall prepare a report to Council forthwith, stating his opinion of the merits of the application and his recommendations as to terms and conditions which, in his opinion, should be imposed upon the applicant if the exemption is granted and Council will consider the application for exemption once it has received the report of the Director of Building and Property Management.
(4)	In deciding whether to grant the exemption, Council shall consider the application, the report of the Director of Building and Property Management and any submission then received by Council and made by the applicant after receipt of the report of the Director of Building and Property Management and the Council may consider such other matters as it sees fit.
(5)	Breach by the applicant of any of the terms or conditions of the exemption shall render the exemption null and void, and constitute a violation of this By-Law.
6.	The provisions of this By-Law shall not apply to:
(a)	Any member of the Royal Newfoundland Constabulary or the Royal Canadian Mounted Police or the St. John's Regional Fire Department or any employee of the City of St. John's, while such member or employee is employed in the execution of his duties as a member or such Force or Department or as an employee of the City of St. John's;
(b)	A Special Event.
7.	Any time in this By-Law shall mean Standard Time for the City of St. John's or Daylight Saving Time, so called, when and during the period for which the same is in force.
8.	If a court of competent jurisdiction should declare any section or part of a section of this By-Law to be invalid, such section or part of a section shall not be construed as having persuaded or influenced Council to pass the remainder of the By-Law and it is hereby declared that the remainder of the By-Law shall be valid and shall remain in force.
9.	Any person who contravenes the provisions of this By-Law shall be guilty of an offence and liable upon summary conviction to a penalty as provided for in Section 403 of the City of St. John's Act, or where a violation notice is issued, to a penalty as provided for in Section 403.2 of the City of St. John's Act.	(Amended 11/05/2007; #1508)
10.	The Noise By-Law passed by the City of St. John's on January 24, 1979 and all amendments thereto is hereby repealed.

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Alumni Write & Produce TV Reboot of "DuckTales"
Several Film Program Alumni are behind the highly anticipated TV revival of DuckTales on DisneyXD. Frank Angones CC '05 is the story editor and co-producer, while Bob Snow '10 and Christian Magalhaes '10 are staff writers. The new show will air twenty-one half-hour episodes and two one-hour episodes this summer.
Based on the beloved 1987 Walt Disney series and the character creations of Disney Legend Carl Banks, DuckTaleswill once again pick up on the adventures of Scrooge McDuck, his nephew Donald, and Scrooge's trouble-making grandnephews Huey, Dewey, and Louie. Other classic characters, including butler-chauffeur Duckworth, chicken inventor Gyro Gearloose, and vampy sorceress/LGBT icon Magica De Spell will also make appearances.
The series has attracted strong talent for its revival. It's helmed by executive producer Max Youngberg (Ben 10: Ultimate Alien), and features Bobby Moynihan (SNL), Danny Pudi (Community), Ben Schwartz (Parks & Recreation), and David Tennant (Doctor Who).
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Fright vs. Fright: The House of Seven Gables
Fright vs. Fright is a series of comparisons between classic horror films and the lesser-known works that inspired them, or subsequent remakes that stand on their own merits.
The Film: Twice-Told Tales (1963)
The Plot: Twice-Told Tales is an anthology film, like many that were produced around the same time period, including Tales of Terror and Dr. Terror's House of Horrors. In this case, each of the three stories are inspired by the writing of Nathaniel Hawthorne. although only one of them actually comes from Hawthorne's short-story collection of the same name. The longest of the three, and most elaborate, is "The House of Seven Gables." In it, Gerald Pyncheon returns to his family home with his new bride Alice in order to try to find a treasure rumored to have been hidden when the house was constructed. But that construction wound up with the house falling under the curse of its maker, since Pyncheon's ancestor decided to accuse the architect, Matthew Maule, of witchcraft rather than pay him. Now, Alice begins seeing visions of Matthew and feeling drawn to Jonathan Maule, Matthew's descendant. All the while, Gerald's sister Hannah keeps reminding Gerald that he shouldn't have come back, since all Pyncheon men are cursed to die "with blood on their lips." And a painting of the first Pyncheon hanging on the wall in the study keeps bleeding from the mouth, and Gerald's drinking water keeps turning to blood. Just in case he didn't believe in spook-stuff. When Gerald thinks he's finally onto the treasure, he gets a little bloodthirsty (in the more traditional sense), and it becomes less and less certain that anybody will get out of this mess alive.
The Good, The Bad, The Indifferent: Twice-Told Tales is one of my favorite Vincent Price movies, and one I come back to almost every year around Halloween. The first two stories — "Dr. Heidigger's Experiment" and "Rappaccini's Daughter" — both have a lot of pathos and interesting twists, after a fashion. But "The House of Seven Gables" is all mustache-twirling scheming and ghost retribution. It amplifies the supernatural elements hinted at in the original story, and is short enough that in stripping away almost all but those elements, it's just Code-Era Hollywood gory fun. I'm wracking my brain to find something negative to say about it, but if you like this kind of thing, it's pretty great. But it is very much this early-60s horror vibe and not much else, so if that's not your bag, you'll probably be left flat.
Based On: The House of Seven Gables (1940)
How It Stacks Up: Watching this movie was kind of a joy. I realize that both versions share the same source material, so the 1963 version isn't directly inspired by the 1940 version, but that both of them feature Vincent Price in the lead, in two different roles, in two very different films made over 20 years apart was a lot of fun to see. This 1940 version hews much more closely to the source material, and any trace of the supernatural is circumstantial at best. Hawthorne was vexed by his family's involvement in the Salem Witch Trials two centuries earlier, and so his characters need not turn to the supernatural to do evil (even if they do invoke it for personal gain). There's no blood, really, and no horror, come to that, apart from how basely a man may treat his (literal) brother in the name of greed, so this film falls much more in line with films like the subsequent Portrait of Jennie or the Orson Welles/Joan Fontaine Jane Eyre (both the same decade), which you might call supernatural-adjacent, Old Hollywood romances.
Worth a Watch? Seeing Vincent Price play a romantic lead only two years after he made his first film is definitely worth a watch. It's not spooky, so maybe skip it for Halloween and go with Twice-Told Tales, but for sure put this one on your list for when that old-movie itch hits you.
Fun bit of connective tissue: Vincent Price, who featured last week in The Fly, brings us back to this film. So while it was completely unintentional, each of the films in this series has been connected by a performer. That we began and ended with Vincent is just icing on the cake.
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This challenge is very similar to the previous one, it only requires a bit more precision in overflowing the buffer since a specific value is expected.
In this challenge, data is read via strcpy, using the first command line parameter as input. This call is unsafe and leads to a stack buffer overflow.
Judging from these strings we can pass an argument to copy to a buffer. The is a variable called changeme which needs to be of a certain value. Going from here, we would try to determine the length of the buffer. Various options exist: static analysis / RE, probing the binary or debugging it.
Since this is a very simple binary, let's skip the further analysis details.
Note that the bytes in the payload are reversed to what we saw in the string due to the little-endian nature of the system.