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Amnesty accuses Nigerian army of raping women and girls who fled Boko Haram

May 24, 2018 Nigeria Boko Haram, Divorce, IDPs, Muhammadu Buhari, Nigeria, Women

Women and girls detained by Boko Haram have then been raped by their military ‘rescuers’ reports Amnesty International in a report that has taken two years and 250 interviews. Nigerian troops sometimes separated women from their husbands and raped them, sometimes in exchange for food, in refugee camps, the rights . . . Read More

Philippines: Catholic priest, Marawi hostage for almost 4 months, tries to find healing

May 24, 2018 Philippines Islamic State, Kidnapping, Marawi, Maute, Philippines, Teresito Suganob

Fr. Teresito “Chito” Suganob in a still taken from an IS propaganda video posted on 30 May last year.

One year after Islamist militants stormed the southern Philippines city of Marawi and 8 months since his escape from his kidnappers, Catholic priest Father Teresito Suganob is trying to find healing for himself and his nation, reported UCAN. Father Suganob was one of around 200 people who were taken hostage . . . Read More

Russia: new ruling could reduce prosecutions under ‘anti-missionary’ law

May 24, 2018 Russia Missionaries, Pentecostals, Russia, Yarovaya Law

Lawyers working for Christian and other minority religious organisations in Russia have welcomed a Constitutional Court ruling over the country’s so-called “anti-missionary law”, reports regional news agency Forum 18. The March ruling helps to partially clarify what is missionary activity. It stated that “giving information about religious events would constitute . . . Read More

DR Congo: Ten killed, nuns kidnapped as presumed Islamist militants strike again in east

May 24, 2018 Democratic Republic of the Congo ADF, Beni, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Joseph Kabila, North Kivu

At least ten people have died in an attack near the town of Mbangkoro in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s volatile region of North Kivu, on Sunday (20 May). It was nearly 6pm when armed men in uniform started firing at inhabitants. They burned a car, killing some inside; others . . . Read More

India: Archbishop of Delhi calls for prayer in run-up to 2019 elections

May 22, 2018 India Bangalore, BJP, Catholics, Delhi, Elections, India, Karnataka, Narendra Modi, RSS

Preparations for an Hindu festival. (Photo: World Watch Monitor)

The Archbishop of Delhi’s call for a ‘prayer campaign’ in India, ahead of next year’s elections has been criticised by the governing party. In a circular to all Catholic churches in the capital, dated 8 May, Archbishop Anil Couto asked for a weekly day of fasting “for the nation”, Indian . . . Read More

Indonesia: death toll of Surabaya Christians confirmed at 12

May 22, 2018 Indonesia Indonesia, Islamic extremism, Surabaya

One week on from the suicide bombings of three churches in the Indonesian city of Surabaya, the number of dead has been confirmed at 18. This includes the six bombers, who were all members of the same family. Among the Christian victims were two young brothers, Vincentius Evan Hudojo, 11, . . . Read More

China: Beijing house churches investigated and ordered to close

May 21, 2018 China Beijing, China, House churches, Religious freedom

Cross of a state-sanctioned Three-Self church in Beijing is visible just above the facades of the city while China's government is trying to get more control over house churches. (Photo: World Watch Monitor)

Authorities in China’s capital Beijing investigated two house churches earlier this month and also pressured landlords to cancel the leases of their meeting places, China Aid reported. Officials from the Xicheng District Public Security Bureau attended a church meeting on Sunday 6 May. Without interrupting the service they investigated proceedings . . . Read More

Chechnya: Seven killed in Orthodox church attack

May 21, 2018 Russia Caucasus, Central Asia, Chechnya, Grozny, Islamic extremism, Islamic State, Russia, Russian Orthodox Church

The Archangel Michael Orthodox Church in the center of Grozny. (Photo: Vladimir Varfolomeev via Flickr; CC 2.0)

Seven people were killed in an attack on a church in Chechnya on Saturday (19 May) that was claimed by Islamic State, local sources told World Watch Monitor. The victims included two police officers who were guarding the church, all four militants and one churchgoer, World Watch Monitor was told. . . . Read More

Report: China’s ‘re-education’ camps could hold over a million people

May 18, 2018 China China, Communism, Uyghurs, Xinjiang

View of Urumqi, capital of the Xinjiang region, the ‘world’s most surveilled area’. (Photo: World Watch Monitor)

“Re-education” camps in China’s far-western Xinjiang region hold hundreds of thousands of people – possibly even over a million – a new report says. The paper, published on Tuesday (15 May) by the Jamestown Foundation, a Washington DC-based think-tank, said there is a “substantial body of PRC [People’s Republic of China] . . . Read More

Ten killed as Christian college attacked in South Sudan

May 17, 2018 South Sudan Dinka, Education, Mundri, Nuer, Riek Machar, Salva Kiir, South Sudan, SPLM-N, Sudan, Sudan Presbyterian Evangelical Church, Yei

Residential accommodation at Emmanuel Christian Training Centre in Goli, South Sudan. (Photo: Open Doors International, 2009)

At least ten people, including five children, have been killed in an attack on a college in South Sudan teaching Theology, Education and Business, according to the Christian charity Open Doors International. Three guards and five students – one secondary and four primary school pupils – were among the victims . . . Read More

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Amnesty accuses Nigerian army of raping women and girls who fled Boko Haram

Philippines: Catholic priest, Marawi hostage for almost 4 months, tries to find healing

Russia: new ruling could reduce prosecutions under ‘anti-missionary’ law

DR Congo: Ten killed, nuns kidnapped as presumed Islamist militants strike again in east

India: Archbishop of Delhi calls for prayer in run-up to 2019 elections

Indonesia: death toll of Surabaya Christians confirmed at 12

China: Beijing house churches investigated and ordered to close

Chechnya: Seven killed in Orthodox church attack

Report: China’s ‘re-education’ camps could hold over a million people

Ten killed as Christian college attacked in South Sudan

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