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Malaysian government gives back Ireland’s ‘Allah’ CDs

July 24, 2015 Malaysia 'Allah', Jill Ireland, Kuala Lumpur

The Malaysian government conceded yesterday (23 July) that Jill Ireland has rightful ownership of eight Christian CDs confiscated from her seven years ago at a Kuala Lumpur airport because they contained the song titles used the word ‘Allah’ to refer to ‘God’. On 23 June, the Appeal Court ordered the . . . Read More

Niger churches ‘abandoned’ after Charlie Hebdo destruction

July 23, 2015 Niger Baptists, Boko Haram, Charlie Hebdo, Churches, Islamic extremism, Mahamadou Issoufou, Niamey, Niger, Prophet Muhammad, Protestants, Trauma, West Africa, Zinder

In the aftermath of the Charlie Hebdo attacks in Paris, the churches in the predominantly Muslim West African nation of Niger experienced the worst attacks in their history. On the weekend of 16-17 January, hundreds of angry Islamists attacked and ransacked dozens of properties and churches, shouting “Allahu Akbar” (“Allah . . . Read More

Asia Bibi’s last chance for freedom

July 22, 2015 Pakistan Asia Bibi, Blasphemy, Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, Multan, Prophet Muhammad, Sawan Masih, Shahbaz Bhatti, Sheikhupura

Pakistani Christian Aasiya Noreen (known as Asia Bibi) has been allowed to take her appeal against her death penalty for blasphemy to Pakistan’s Supreme Court in the capital, Islamabad. Until the Supreme Court reaches its final decision, Noreen cannot be executed. Commentators today have praised the Supreme Court for its courage to . . . Read More

Coptic boy’s Ramadan gesture ends in detention

July 20, 2015 Egypt Alexandria, Blasphemy, Copts, Islamic extremism, Ramadan

At sundown each day during Ramadan, which ended on 17 July with the Eid-al-Fitr celebrations, observant Muslims customarily broke their fast at their evening iftar meal by eating dates. A week prior, on the evening of 10 July, 16-year-old Fawzi Osama was on the street in the northern Egyptian city . . . Read More

Birthday for a missing girl

July 17, 2015 Iraq Assyrians, Christina Abada, Islamic State, Kidnapping, Kurds

July 18 is Christina Khader Abada’s birthday. She’s 4. Her family won’t have a party for her. A soldier of the Islamic State took Christina from the arms of her mother nearly a year ago, and nothing has been heard about the girl since. “My biggest joy would be when . . . Read More

Are Nigeria’s ‘Middle Belt’ Christians victims of ethnic cleansing?

July 13, 2015 Nigeria Berom, Boko Haram, Fulani herdsmen, Nigeria, West Africa

It has been a deadly July in Nigeria. More than 200 people have been killed since June 30 in attacks that have come almost daily in the country's northern and northeastern regions, stronghold of the militant Islamic sect Boko Haram.

Are Nigeria’s ‘Middle Belt’ Christians victims of ethnic cleansing?

July 12, 2015 Nigeria Berom, Boko Haram, Fulani herdsmen, West Africa

March 2014 attacks in Kaduna state, in central Nigeria, left more than 114 people dead and many houses burned.World Watch Monitor It has been a deadly July in Nigeria. More than 200 people have been killed since June 30 in attacks that have come almost daily in the country’s . . . Read More

How does a man kill ‘in God’s name’? asks former UK Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks

July 8, 2015 Islamic extremism, London, Terrorism

A vital text in winning the peace’ – Sacks’ new bookHodder & Stoughton Ten years on from the 7/7 London bombings, in which 52 people were killed and hundreds were injured by four separate suicide bombers, the world is still looking for an answer as to why religious people kill . . . Read More

Boko Haram victim ‘left for dead’ in 2012 loses sister and her two children in church bomb

July 7, 2015 Nigeria Boko Haram, Borno, Chibok girls, Churches, Jigawa, Jos, Muhammadu Buhari, Nigeria, Potiskum, Sabon Gari, Yobe, Zaria

The sister of a man whose miraculous survival from a shot in the head by Boko Haram took him to testify to the US Congress, has been killed with two of her children. Tabita Adamu, 44, her 18-year-old daughter, Haske, and 11-year-old son, Nuhu died in the July 5 bomb . . . Read More

Police rescue Pakistani Christian from ‘mob justice’ over blasphemy

July 3, 2015 Pakistan Blasphemy, Faisalabad, Farooqabad, Lahore, Quran, Seventh-day Adventists

Rukhsana and other family members were beaten and had their faces blackened by an angry mob, June 2015World Watch Monitor A Christian father of four was beaten, had his head shaved, his face blackened, and was dragged through his Pakistan village before he was rescued by police June 30. . . . Read More

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Malaysian government gives back Ireland’s ‘Allah’ CDs

Niger churches ‘abandoned’ after Charlie Hebdo destruction

Asia Bibi’s last chance for freedom

Coptic boy’s Ramadan gesture ends in detention

Birthday for a missing girl

Are Nigeria’s ‘Middle Belt’ Christians victims of ethnic cleansing?

Are Nigeria’s ‘Middle Belt’ Christians victims of ethnic cleansing?

How does a man kill ‘in God’s name’? asks former UK Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks

Boko Haram victim ‘left for dead’ in 2012 loses sister and her two children in church bomb

Police rescue Pakistani Christian from ‘mob justice’ over blasphemy

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