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China: Pastor and 200 church members detained for commemorating earthquake

May 17, 2018 China Chengdu, China, Churches, Communism, House churches, Mao Zedong, Religion Law, Religious freedom, Sichuan, Sinicisation, Xi Jinping

People are sifting through the rubble to look for personal items after their homes were destroyed in an earthquake. (World Watch Monitor, 2008)

A church in Chengdu, the capital of China’s southwestern Sichuan province, was raided by police on Saturday (12 May) as it prepared to commemorate the 10th anniversary of an earthquake that killed almost 90,000 people and left millions homeless. Pastor Wang Yi of Early Rain Covenant Church was arrested alongside . . . Read More

China: Protestant pastor found guilty of ‘intentionally divulging state secrets’

May 17, 2018 China China, Churches, Guizhou, Huoshi Church, Religious freedom, Su Tianfu, Yang Hua

The pastor of a high-profile church in China has been sentenced to one year in prison, suspended for two years, with a further six months’ residential surveillance, for “intentionally divulging state secrets”. Pastor Su Tianfu of Huoshi (Living Stone) Church in the south-western province of Guizhou had already been under . . . Read More

Nigeria: 10 killed in Kogi state as herdsmen attacks move south

May 16, 2018 Nigeria Benue, Donald Trump, Fulani herdsmen, Kogi, Middle Belt, Muhammadu Buhari, Nigeria

At least ten people were killed as suspected Fulani herdsmen attacked Christian communities in Kogi state on Monday, 14 May. Nigeria has been plagued by violence attributed to the herdsmen, particularly in the Middle Belt and northeast. But now the violence is also affecting the predominantly Christian south states, with . . . Read More

Syria: more families return to Homs

May 16, 2018 Syria Civil War, Homs, IDPs, Migrants, Refugees, Syria

Hundreds of people displaced from Syria’s third largest city of Homs because of years of violent conflict will soon be returning home, according to the Catholic charity Aid to the Church in Need (ACN). Homs saw some of the first protests of the Syrian conflict back in 2011 and in the years that . . . Read More

Nepal: 4 more churches attacked

May 16, 2018 Nepal Hindu nationalism, Maoists, Nepal, UN

A church in Nepal has been bombed and three other churches attacked by arsonists over a five-day period, reports Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW). Arsonists attacked Hebron Church in Hilihang Rural Municipality, in Nepal’s eastern district of Panchthar, on 9 May; Emmanuel Church, Doti, in the country’s far west, on 10 . . . Read More

Philippines: Marawi Catholics accompany Muslims in Ramadan fast

May 15, 2018 Philippines Catholics, Islamic extremism, Marawi, Mindanao, Philippines, Ramadan

Catholic and Muslim residents of the battle-scarred city of Marawi, in the southern Philippines, started the Islamic month of fasting together this week, as part of a local tradition dating back almost 40 years. As Ramadan began on 13 May, Christian families were encouraged to “accompany their Muslim neighbours in . . . Read More

Nigeria: Leah Sharibu’s 15th birthday passes in captivity

May 15, 2018 Nigeria Boko Haram, Chibok girls, Dapchi, Hijab, Leah Sharibu, Nigeria, Yobe

The single remaining Nigerian teenager still being held captive by Boko Haram following a raid on her school in February had her 15th birthday yesterday (14 May) in captivity, reported Nigeria’s Premium Times. Leah Sharibu was the only Christian taken when the militant Islamist group abducted 110 girls during a . . . Read More

Temporary release for one Iranian Christian, court hearings for others

May 14, 2018 Iran Converts, Evin Prison, Iran, Karaj, Shamiram Isavi Khabizeh, Tehran, Victor Bet-Tamraz

An Iranian Christian imprisoned last year for actions against national security has been granted “a few days” leave of absence, according to London-based advocacy organisation Article 18. Sevada Aghaser, a choir leader in an Armenian Orthodox church in the capital Tehran, is serving a five-year sentence in the capital’s notorious . . . Read More

New promise that bodies of 21 beheaded Christians will be returned to families

May 11, 2018 Egypt Copts, Egypt, Islamic extremism, Islamic State, Libya, Minya, Samalut

For the third time since February, the families of the 20 Egyptian Copts and one Ghanaian Christian beheaded three years ago in Libya by IS have been promised the imminent return of their loved ones’ remains. The head of investigations at the Libyan Attorney General’s Office, Siddiq Assour, ordered on . . . Read More

Religious freedom reduces terrorism, says US ambassador Brownback

May 11, 2018 Global News -- No Particular Country China, Donald Trump, Kim Jong-Un, North Korea, Religious freedom, Sam Brownback, Saudi Arabia, Terrorism, USA

Sam Brownback was confirmed as Ambassador-at-large for International Religious Freedom in January.

If countries want less terrorism within their borders, they should give religious freedom to their people, says US religious freedom ambassador Sam Brownback. During a policy hearing in Washington DC on Wednesday (9 May), he said one country that had been a “bad actor” for a long time was now . . . Read More

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Catching Our Eye

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China: Pastor and 200 church members detained for commemorating earthquake

China: Protestant pastor found guilty of ‘intentionally divulging state secrets’

Nigeria: 10 killed in Kogi state as herdsmen attacks move south

Syria: more families return to Homs

Nepal: 4 more churches attacked

Philippines: Marawi Catholics accompany Muslims in Ramadan fast

Nigeria: Leah Sharibu’s 15th birthday passes in captivity

Temporary release for one Iranian Christian, court hearings for others

New promise that bodies of 21 beheaded Christians will be returned to families

Religious freedom reduces terrorism, says US ambassador Brownback

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