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Sinai Christian shot after ‘confessing’ his faith

May 10, 2016 Egypt Ansar Beit al-Maqdis, Copts, Egypt, El-Arish, Islamic extremism, Sinai

A Coptic civil servant was killed in Sinai, Egypt, after his vehicle was stopped and passengers were asked if any “Christian infidels” were on board. Messak Nasralla, 58, was going about his business as a government medical supplier when he was found dead last week, south of Arish, reports in . . . Read More

Bangladesh bomb attacks on Christian home

May 6, 2016 Bangladesh Bangladesh

Two people were injured during bomb attacks on a Christian home in Bangladesh on Tuesday (3 May), the latest in a string of violent attacks against minorities. Alam Mondol, 45, was hospitalised after the blasts at his home in a mainly Christian hamlet in Bangladesh’s western Chudanga area, . Another . . . Read More

Pastor who helped N. Korea defectors found dead

May 4, 2016 North Korea China, Kim Jong-Un, North Korea

A pastor who helped North Korean refugees escape their homeland has been found dead near the border with China. Rights activists suspect , quoting Yonhap, the official Korean news agency. Korean-Chinese pastor Han Choong Yeol, 49, well-known for helping North Korean defectors, left his home in Chiangbai, a Chinese town . . . Read More

Malaysian Muslim’s right to convert appealed

May 3, 2016 Malaysia Borneo, Constitution, Converts, Malaysia, Religious freedom, Sarawak, Sharia

An appeal has been lodged against a landmark ruling by the Malaysian High Court that a Sarawak Muslim can officially convert to Christianity. just ahead of the 24 April deadline. The reasons for the appeal need to be revealed within eight weeks. Rebit was born into a Christian family that . . . Read More

Calls for Christian asylum centres in Sweden

April 29, 2016 Assyrians, Asylum seekers, Converts, France, Germany, Iran, Islamic extremism, Middle East, Pakistan, Refugees, Sweden, Women

Increasing reports about Christians harassed by hardline Muslim fellow migrants are prompting calls for non-Muslim asylum centres to be set up in Sweden. According to the Swedish Evangelical Alliance, one Christian refugee in Kalmar in the southeast of the country was threatened with having his throat slit by a man . . . Read More

Myanmar monk builds pagoda on church grounds

April 28, 2016 Myanmar Buddhist nationalism, Churches, Karen, Myanmar

A Myanmar Christian leader appealed for calm Wednesday after an influential Buddhist monk built pagodas within the compound of a church in a country beset with religious tensions, . Supporters of the monk Myaing Kyee Ngu erected a religious statue and planted a Buddhist flag on a church’s grounds in . . . Read More

Aleppo Christian areas shelled, scores casualties

April 28, 2016 Syria Aleppo, Armenians, Children, Civil War, Kurds, Syria

Despite a fragile truce helped by both US and Russian efforts, at least 19 people have been killed and scores injured this week in continued shelling in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo. Coinciding with the 101st anniversary of the Turkish genocide of Armenians and other Christians, areas of notable . . . Read More

Indonesian laws thwart new church plans

April 28, 2016 Indonesia Aceh, Churches, Indonesia, Sharia

Protestant church leaders in Aceh, Indonesia are pushing for consistent application of Islamic law in the province, after the destruction of 10 churches in the last nine months, . Last August, a mob burned down the Pakpak Dairi Christian Protestant Church, killing one person and forcing thousands of Christians to . . . Read More

Church where pastor’s wife killed wins land rights

April 28, 2016 China China, Henan

Less than two weeks after a pastor’s wife was killed in a government authorised church demolition in China’s central Henan province, the and its pastor for use as a religious site. A task force made up of the township government, the local ministry of land and resources, and a village administrative . . . Read More

Foreigners in North Korea – what to expect if arrested

April 27, 2016 North Korea Jeffrey Fowle, Kenneth Bae, North Korea, Otto Warmbier, USA

Foreigners arrested and detained in North Korea can expect to spend hundreds of days in prison, . The 13 US citizens detained since 1995 – including the Christians Jeffrey Fowle, Aijalon Gomes and Korean-American Kenneth Bae – spent an average of 213 days imprisoned. to 15 years’ hard labour, has . . . Read More

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Catching Our Eye

Catching Our Eye

Sinai Christian shot after ‘confessing’ his faith

Bangladesh bomb attacks on Christian home

Pastor who helped N. Korea defectors found dead

Malaysian Muslim’s right to convert appealed

Calls for Christian asylum centres in Sweden

Myanmar monk builds pagoda on church grounds

Aleppo Christian areas shelled, scores casualties

Indonesian laws thwart new church plans

Church where pastor’s wife killed wins land rights

Foreigners in North Korea – what to expect if arrested

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