The governors of the states of Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas emphasised that the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico had not been stopped more than two months after the explosion of a Deepwater Horizon drilling rig that killed 11 men.

“Throughout our history, Alabamians have humbly turned to God to ask for his blessings and to hold us steady during times of struggle. This is certainly one of those times,” said Gov. Bob Riley of Alabama in a statement.

WASHINGTON, DC (ANS): Hard-line Muslims in Bekasi, Indonesia, are taking steps toward an impending religious war with Christians.

ICC (International Christian Concern) says it has learned that a call to form religious militia units was made recently at the second Bekasi Islamic Conference, a gathering of 2000 representatives from regional Islamic organisations.

Deadly Kyrgyzstan clashes displace hundreds of thousands By Aaron J. Leichman (The Christian Post)

A global network of churches and related aid organisations is calling on the provisional Kyrgyz government to guarantee the safe transportation of life-saving assistance and access for aid workers to avert a humanitarian crisis in southern Kyrgyzstan, where the flaring of conflict has displaced an estimated 300,000 people from their homes.

“We are losing time, people are dying, and we need to find a way to distribute aid as soon as possible,” said Ray Hasan, head of the Central Asia region for Christian Aid, one of three groups representing the ACT Alliance in Kyrgyzstan.

RABAT, MOROCCO Moroccan Christians say Muslim extremists in the country are aiding and encouraging the government to pursue them by exposing and vilifying them on social networking site Facebook.

Facebook user Gardes Maroc Maroc has posted 32 image collages featuring dozens of Christian converts, calling them “hyena evangelists” or “wolves in lamb’s skins” who are trying to “shake the faith of Muslims.” That terminology on the website, which is in Arabic, matches that of Morocco’s anti-proselytizing law, which outlaws efforts to “shake the faith of Muslims.”

The online images depict Christian converts and their families from across the country and include details about their roles and activities in churches, their personal addresses and anecdotal stories attempting to malign them.