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Kazakh pastor released, then arrested

October 10, 2013 Kazakhstan Astana, Bakhytzhan Kashkumbayev, Kazakhstan, Terrorism

Kazakh pastor Bakhytzhan Kashkumbayev walked out of prison Oct. 8, only to be arrested again at the prison gate on terrorism charges. The pastor, already awaiting trial on charges that he used a “red-coloured hallucinogenic drink” to cause psychlogical harm to a member of his congregation, was permitted to leave prison and . . . Read More

Amnesty: Egypt failed to protect Copts

October 9, 2013 Egypt Copts, Egypt, Middle East, North Africa

A new report by Amnesty International claims the authorities in Egypt are failing to prevent “deeply disturbing” attacks on the country’s Coptic Christian minority. The organisation has called for an investigation into a series of deadly sectarian incidents. “Failure to bring to justice those responsible for sectarian attacks sends the . . . Read More

Pastor placed under house arrest

October 8, 2013 Kazakhstan Bakhytzhan Kashkumbayev

Kazakh pastor Bakhytzhan Kashkumbayev has been told he will be released from prison but only to be placed under house arrest, reports Forum 18. The pastor, who has been detained for almost five months and undertook a hunger strike in protest, is still awaiting trial. He will be confined to . . . Read More

Pakistan ‘beset with religious rage’

October 4, 2013 Pakistan All Saints Church, Islamic extremism, Nawaz Sharif, Pakistan, Peshawar

The World Council of Churches has registered with Pakistan Prime Minister Naraz Sharif its dismay at the recent wave of violence that has claimed nearly 150 lives. In an Oct. 3 letter to Sharif, council General Secretary Rev. Olav Fykse Tveit said the council’s 345 member churches, representing 500 million Christians, . . . Read More

Egyptian bishop eludes gunmen

October 1, 2013 Egypt Anba Macarius, Bishop Angaelos, Copts, Egypt, Minya

An automobile occupied by the bishop of the Coptic Church in Minya, Egypt, and several companions came under gunfire on Monday. No one was hurt. “We are all safe,” Bishop Makarios told Bishop Angaelos, general bishop of The Coptic Orthodox Church in the United Kingdom, according to a release from the . . . Read More

Archbishop of Aleppo lists damages

September 30, 2013

The Archbishop of Aleppo says that 1,400 factories and shops have been looted, demolished or burned in Aleppo alone, while more than 2,000 schools have been “devastated or put out of use”. Jean-Clément Jeanbart told Fides that “37 hospitals and 1,000 small clinics and dispensaries have been vandalised… grain silos . . . Read More

Islamist rebels bolt Syrian coalition

September 26, 2013 Syria Al-Nusra Front, Al-Qaeda, Bashar al-Assad, Free Syrian Army, Sharia, Syria

Eleven Islamist rebel groups in Syria have announced they no longer recognise the authority of the main opposition alliance, the National Coalition. Their announcement also calls for the Syrian opposition to unite under an ‘Islamic framework’. Its signatories include members of the Free Syrian Army as well as more radical . . . Read More

Violence locks down Nigerian town

September 24, 2013 Nigeria Fulani herdsmen, Kaduna, Kafanchan, Nigeria

The largely Christian Nigerian town of Kafanchan is under 24-hour curfew after an outburst of violence Friday that left 10 people dead. News reports vary on the details of the violence, but generally agree that it involved two groups of youths – those indigenous to southern Kaduna state and those . . . Read More

Grenades found in cathedral

September 23, 2013 Central African Republic Bossangoa, Central African Republic, Human rights

Two unexploded grenades have been discovered in Bossangoa Cathedral in the Central African Republic, reports Fides. Last week, World Watch Monitor reported that the interfaith conflict in the country is escalating, while Human Rights Watch has released a report on what it calls the world’s “forgotten human rights crisis”.

Church wants political Syria solution

September 20, 2013 Global News -- No Particular Country Damascus, France, Germany, Russia, Syria, Turkey, UK, UN, USA

Church leaders from Syria, Russia, the US, UK, France, Germany and Turkey have called for a political solution as the only way to peace in Syria. They met the UN Secretary General and his Special Envoy to Syria on the same day that Syria’s Deputy Prime Minister said that the . . . Read More

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Catching Our Eye

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Kazakh pastor released, then arrested

Amnesty: Egypt failed to protect Copts

Pastor placed under house arrest

Pakistan ‘beset with religious rage’

Egyptian bishop eludes gunmen

Archbishop of Aleppo lists damages

Islamist rebels bolt Syrian coalition

Violence locks down Nigerian town

Grenades found in cathedral

Church wants political Syria solution

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