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Egypt sentences ‘anti-Islam’ teens to 5 years

February 25, 2016 Egypt Blasphemy, Copts, Egypt, Gad Younan, Islamic extremism, Islamic State, Minya

Three Egyptian Christian students accused of “offending Islam” were sentenced today (25 Feb.) to five years each, Coptic news site Watani said. Muller Atef, Albert Ashraf and Bassem Amgad were given jail terms, while a fourth, Clinton Maged, is due to be remanded in a juvenile facility for five years, according . . . Read More

Iraq’s Christian homes ‘grab’ continues

February 24, 2016 Iraq Baghdad, Iraq, Islamic State, Louis Raphael I Sako, Nineveh Plains

Homes and businesses left behind by Iraq’s Christians are being illegally taken, as hostile forces continue to scrape off the last vestiges of two millennia of Christian presence in the country. “ISIS has displaced 120,000 Christians from Mosul and the Nineveh Plains, destroying monasteries, churches and homes to erase their memory. . . . Read More

Canada’s religious freedom conundrum

February 24, 2016 Andrew Bennett, Canada, Human rights, Religious freedom, USA

Should Western democracies make the defence of religious freedom around the world a separate, fenced-off part of their foreign policy? Or is it better simply to include that concern under the general heading of human rights? These are the questions asked by , as it watches with interest the developments . . . Read More

Calais ‘Jungle’ to be demolished

February 23, 2016 Calais, France, Grande-Synthe, Migrants, Refugees, UK

The southern half of the “Jungle” migrant camp in Calais, northern France, will be demolished tomorrow (24 Feb.), as French authorities seek to move migrants into converted shipping containers outside the camp or refugee centres across the country. It will affect between 1,000 and 3,000 people; thousands of migrants currently . . . Read More

Syrian Christians favour Assad to bring peace

February 23, 2016 Syria Bashar al-Assad, Civil War, Islamic State, Syria

Supporting President Assad may be the only hope of Christians surviving during and after Syria’s civil war, writes John Pontifex for . On a recent trip to Syria for Aid to the Church in Need, he found Christians considered it better to support the current leadership than face the threat . . . Read More

Islamic State releases 43 Assyrian hostages

February 22, 2016 Syria Assyrians, Islamic State, Kidnapping, Syria

The so-called Islamic State has released 43 Assyrian Christians – the remaining hostages of the . The group is on its way to Tel Tamr, a town close to the villages they were abducted from, according to Younan Talia of the Assyrian Democratic Organization. Talia said the release came after . . . Read More

Uncertain future for Canada religious freedom post

February 17, 2016 Andrew Bennett, Canada, Europe, Human rights, Islamic State, Lord Alton, Minorities, Religious freedom, UK

Canada’s ambassador for religious freedom has had his contract extended for another month, but the post may still be abolished. Andrew Bennett became Canada’s first ambassador for religious freedom when he was appointed three years ago, but Canada’s new Foreign Affairs Minister, Stéphane Dion, said religious freedom should not be . . . Read More

Year since Libya, Christians move closer to unity

February 15, 2016 Egypt Bishop Angaelos, Copts, Egypt, Libya, Middle East, North Africa, Pope Tawadros II

A year ago today (15 Feb.), 20 Coptic Christians and one Ghanaian killed by Islamic jihadists in Libya were announced as martyred saints by the Coptic Pope, Tawadros III of Egypt. The head of the ancient Church, the largest in the Middle East and key within its branch of Oriental Orthodoxy, said . . . Read More

Refugee churches in Khartoum ordered to ‘register’

February 12, 2016 Sudan Christmas, Khartoum, Refugees, Sudan

Representatives from Sudan’s Ministry of Internal Affairs have convened leaders of refugee churches in Khartoum to tell them to stop their services until they have registered, sources have told World Watch Monitor. The churches affected are those started for refugees from Eritrea, Ethiopia, South Sudan and the Philippines, among others. If . . . Read More

76 Christians reconverted to Hinduism in India

February 11, 2016 India Ghar Wapsi, Hindu nationalism, India, Odisha, Vishva Hindu Parishad

Seventy-six Christians from 21 poor tribal families have been forcibly reconverted to Hinduism in the Indian state of Odisha, local sources told World Watch Monitor. Attacks on Indian Christians were in 2015. These included the arrest of hundreds who were charged with attempting to forcibly convert Hindus. Y. Raghavulu, national . . . Read More

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Catching Our Eye

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Egypt sentences ‘anti-Islam’ teens to 5 years

Iraq’s Christian homes ‘grab’ continues

Canada’s religious freedom conundrum

Calais ‘Jungle’ to be demolished

Syrian Christians favour Assad to bring peace

Islamic State releases 43 Assyrian hostages

Uncertain future for Canada religious freedom post

Year since Libya, Christians move closer to unity

Refugee churches in Khartoum ordered to ‘register’

76 Christians reconverted to Hinduism in India

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