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What Islamic State really wants

February 18, 2015 Al-Qaeda, Genocide, Islamic extremism, Islamic State, Osama bin Laden, UK

Few Western leaders understand what ISIS really is but, argues a detailed analysis in The Atlantic, they are wrong to think it applies the logic of Al-Qaeda. ISIS has eclipsed Bin Laden’s organisation and jihadism has evolved. The West needs to see ISIS as “more than a collection of psychopaths” . . . Read More

600,000 Christians have fled Egypt since 1984

February 17, 2015 Egypt Copts, Egypt, Islamic State, Libya, Middle East, Upper Egypt

Rupert Shortt, author of Christianophobia: A Faith Under Attack, has written an opinion piece in The Telegraph in which he argues that the murder of 21 Coptic Christians by Islamic State is not an isolated case but instead “the latest of countless outrages perpetrated against Christians in or near the . . . Read More

Life in Islamabad’s Christian slum

February 11, 2015 Pakistan Blasphemy, Children, Education, Islamabad, Pakistan

A makeshift ‘tent city’ on the outskirts of Islamabad, which has become home to Christians who’ve left Pakistan’s capital city in fear after strings of blasphemy allegations and killings, is the subject of a new photo essay by the Associated Press. Christians are shown living in simple cement-block homes or . . . Read More

Indian church burning compared to Nazis

February 11, 2015 India Constitution, Delhi, India, Proselytism, Religious freedom

The Archbishop of Mumbai has asked whether India’s constitutional guarantee for people to freely ‘profess, practise and propagate religion’ actually applies to the Christian community in light of the treatment of those protesting in Delhi on 5 February against the fifth attack on the city’s churches in recent weeks. On . . . Read More

Iraqi Archbishop ‘begs’ Britain to send in troops

February 10, 2015 Afghanistan, Bashar Warda, Chaldeans, Iraq, Islamic State, Kurds, London, Nineveh Plains, UK

The Chaldean Catholic Archbishop of Erbil – the city in Iraqi Kurdistan where thousands of Christians have fled to safety from Islamic State fighters -‘begged’ Britain to send troops to his country to help save Christians there from being wiped out. He said an estimated 125,000 Christians in northern Iraq have . . . Read More

Launch of new commission to address persecution

February 4, 2015 Global News -- No Particular Country Asia Bibi, London, Pakistan, Religious freedom

Asia Bibi’s case was just one of those highlighted by today’s launch in London of the Religious Liberty Commission to address the persecution of Christians around the world. The commission, which is made up of Open Doors, Release International, Christian Solidarity Worldwide and the Evangelical Alliance will allow those working on . . . Read More

Threatened Asia Bibi family make fresh appeal

February 4, 2015 Pakistan Asia Bibi, Blasphemy, Pakistan

The husband of Asia Bibi, the Pakistani Christian woman on death row for nearly five years for blasphemy, has spoken about how the family’s lives are under constant threat. The law has “destroyed our lives”, Ashiq Masih told the BBC. “We get death threats. We can’t stay in one place . . . Read More

2014 deadliest year for Mexican Catholic leaders

February 2, 2015 Mexico Catholics, Mexico, Organised crime

has published a new report on religious freedom violations in Mexico revealing that “more Roman Catholic priests and lay leaders were killed in Mexico in 2014 than in any other country in the world.” According to the report, leaders from other Christian denominations face similar threats from criminal groups, but . . . Read More

Another Delhi church vandalized

February 2, 2015

A Catholic Church in Delhi was vandalized on Feb. 2 – this is the fifth church attack in the city within the past two months. “Church officials believe this and the four previous attacks are part of a campaign to polarize the Christian community,” said . "These attacks are definitely . . . Read More

Abduction of another Egyptian Copt in Libya

January 30, 2015 Libya Islamic State, Kidnapping, Libya, Sirte, Tripoli

Unidentified gunmen abducted an Egyptian working in a restaurant in the Libyan city of Sirte on Jan. 29. According to Middle East news agency Copts Today the colleagues of 26-year-old Christian Samir Sabri Masood, from Sidi Salem Kafr El Sheikh, Egypt, reported the kidnapping to the police after he was . . . Read More

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Catching Our Eye

Catching Our Eye

What Islamic State really wants

600,000 Christians have fled Egypt since 1984

Life in Islamabad’s Christian slum

Indian church burning compared to Nazis

Iraqi Archbishop ‘begs’ Britain to send in troops

Launch of new commission to address persecution

Threatened Asia Bibi family make fresh appeal

2014 deadliest year for Mexican Catholic leaders

Another Delhi church vandalized

Abduction of another Egyptian Copt in Libya

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