1.   After the night of prayer, they walk on the rocks around the ruins of stone huts, called penitential beds, that were used by early Christian worshipers.

2.   Ignorance of the history or huge number of Christian worshipers in faraway countries tends to make American Christians, and Jews too, passive about the persecution of Christians.

3.   The Islamic militant Government has bombed and burned Christian villages, taken Christian children as slaves and tortured Christian worshipers and their priests.

4.   Han and Luo said they met regularly with national policy-makers and had been able to overturn local obstacles such as a tax in one area on Christian worshipers.

5.   No fresh unrest was reported Sunday, and soldiers guarded small groups of Christian worshipers who ventured out to their churches to pray.

6.   Some hurled insults and curses at Christian worshipers leaving the church where Roman Catholic tradition holds that the Angel Gabriel appeared before Mary and told her she was pregnant.

7.   There were no reports of fresh unrest on Sunday, and soldiers guarded small groups of Christian worshipers who ventured out to their churches to pray.