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Iraqi Patriarch challenges ‘identity law’

November 11, 2015 Iraq Baghdad, Children, Converts, Erbil, Iraq, Louis Raphael I Sako, Minorities, Yazidis

The Chaldean Catholic Patriarch of Iraq renewed his opposition this week to an article in the nation’s new national laws requiring minority-faith children to become Muslims if one parent converts to Islam. Describing the new law as both unconstitutional and “unacceptable,” Patriarch Louis Raphael I Sako has called on President . . . Read More

Visiting a monastery in ISIS territory

November 10, 2015 Iraq Iraq, Islamic State, Kurds, Mosul, Nineveh Plains

An international aid worker has shared his experiences of visiting a monastery in what is technically regarded as IS-held territory within Iraq. His blog, ISIS Territory – Smoke on the Horizon, Song in the Chapel, describes the fear he felt leaving behind the last Kurdish checkpoint and his meetings with . . . Read More

Syrian priest describes time with ISIS

November 10, 2015 Syria Islamic State, Jacques Mourad, Syria

Syrian priest Jacques Mourad, who was held by the Islamic State for nearly three months and threatened with execution, has spoken for the first time about his ordeal. Fr. Mourad was abducted from Qaryatain in May and escaped in October. In an interview with the BBC, he describes his kidnapping . . . Read More

Kenya to ‘re-integrate’ ex-Al-Shabaab recruits

November 9, 2015 Kenya African Union, Al-Shabaab, Garissa, Kenya, Mombasa, Somalia

Kenya has welcomed the return of 700 citizens who had joined Somalia’s Al-Shabaab militant group that has attacked churches, malls and government institutions, most notably Garissa University College where nearly 150 people — mostly Christian students — were killed last spring. The returning militants are said to be undergoing rehabilitation . . . Read More

Foreign jihadists are fighting in DRC

November 6, 2015 Democratic Republic of the Congo ADF, Beni, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Islamic extremism, North Kivu

There are foreign fighters operating in the ranks of the ADF-NALU, a group of militants originally rooted in a rebel movement to overthrow Uganda’s government, but forced to re-locate over the border into North Kivu, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), reports Fides. On 16 October, a UN report said . . . Read More

Iranian prisoner denied treatment

November 5, 2015

An Iranian Christian has been forced to return to prison before her medical treatment could be completed, reports Mohabat News. Maryam Naghash Zargaran, 36, a convert to Christianity, is a little over halfway through a four-year sentence for “gathering [information], collusion and action against national security”. Zargaran underwent heart surgery . . . Read More

Pope shares ‘worsening concerns’ over CAR

November 4, 2015 Central African Republic Bangui, Central African Republic, Pope Francis

Pope Francis has voiced great concern over a fresh outbreak of sectarian violence which has left many killed and thousands displaced in the Central African Republic (CAR), Fides reports. “The painful events that have worsened an already delicate situation in the Central African Republic in recent days are of great concern. . . . Read More

Nigeria: 338 rescued from Boko Haram

October 28, 2015 Nigeria Boko Haram, Chibok girls, Children, Kidnapping, Nigeria, Women

Nigeria’s army says that it has rescued 338 people – predominantly women and children – from Boko Haram. “Troops of 28 Task Force Brigade Nigerian Army deployed at Bitta and Pridang carried out a successful raid on suspected Boko Haram terrorists’ camps at Bulajilin and Manawashe villages along Bita and . . . Read More

U.S. Congress gets an update on religious freedom

October 27, 2015

October 27 is the 16th anniversary of the creation of the , which obligates the U.S. president to take religious freedom into account when carrying out America’s foreign policy. The act also created an Office of International Religious Freedom within the State Department, as well as the bipartisan, independent U.S. . . . Read More

Iraqi Christian MPs challenge their constitution

October 22, 2015 Iraq Children, Constitution, Converts, Iraq, Islamic extremism, Marriage, Minorities, Yazidis

Four Christian members of the Iraqi parliament have called for a change in the law to preserve the religion of dependent children whose fathers convert to Islam, reports Middle East Christian News. As the civil law now stands, children under the age of 18 become Muslim when their father converts. . . . Read More

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Catching Our Eye

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Iraqi Patriarch challenges ‘identity law’

Visiting a monastery in ISIS territory

Syrian priest describes time with ISIS

Kenya to ‘re-integrate’ ex-Al-Shabaab recruits

Foreign jihadists are fighting in DRC

Iranian prisoner denied treatment

Pope shares ‘worsening concerns’ over CAR

Nigeria: 338 rescued from Boko Haram

U.S. Congress gets an update on religious freedom

Iraqi Christian MPs challenge their constitution

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