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Egypt: Three arrested for plotting Easter attacks

April 11, 2018 Egypt Alexandria, Copts, Islamic State, Palm Sunday, Sohag, Tanta

Coptic Church in central Egypt. (Photo: World Watch Monitor, 2004)

Egyptian security forces arrested three people suspected of planning to target Coptic churches during last Sunday’s Orthodox Easter celebrations. Sources said that police arrested three Egyptians in the city of Maragha, in Egypt’s southern province of Sohag last Thursday, as churches prepared for three days of services culminating on Easter . . . Read More

UN religious-freedom rapporteur to assess Tunisia

April 10, 2018 Tunisia Ahmed Shaheed, Human rights, Islamic extremism, Religious freedom, Tunisia, Women

An old palace in the heart of the medina of the capital Tunis which now houses government offices. (Photo: World Watch Monitor)

The UN’s Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion or Belief will assess whether security measures to combat terrorism in Tunisia are limiting freedom of religion. Ahmed Shaheed is scheduled for a 10-day visit the capital, Tunis, and the island of Djerba, where he will discuss human rights issues, including those . . . Read More

Czech aid worker recounts torture by IS convicts in Sudan prison

April 10, 2018 Sudan Abdulmonem Abdumawla, Al-Qaeda, Hassan Taour, Islamic State, Petr Jašek, Sudan, Torture

The Czech aid worker released in February 2017 after being imprisoned for 14 months in Sudan on spying charges has revealed how he was tortured by fellow inmates,. Petr Jasek explained at a conference in the US organised by charity Voice of the Martyrs that he was treated like a . . . Read More

The Mosul church that tells the story of a city

April 9, 2018 Iraq Hisbah, Iraq, Islamic State, Mosul, Nineveh Plains

“One story of Mosul today can be told through a church in ancient Mosul that was once used by ISIS,” begins a photo essay by Mosul journalist Ali Y. Al-Baroodi. Al-Baroodi, a photographer and translator based in Mosul, has been documenting the destruction and recovery of his home city. His . . . Read More

Museum recalls tenacity of Japan’s hidden Christians

April 9, 2018 Global News -- No Particular Country Catholics, Japan, Nagasaki

A monument in Nagasaki for the twenty-six Catholics who were executed here for their faith in 1597. (Photo: Thaths via Flickr; CC 2.0)

A museum telling the story of Christian persecution in Japan has opened within the premises of Japan’s oldest standing church, in Nagasaki. The facility in a former seminary and bishop’s residence, forms part of the Catholic Oura Church, and has been renovated. It recounts the introduction of Catholicism, its violent . . . Read More

World Council of Churches condemns persecution of other religions

April 9, 2018 Global News -- No Particular Country Berlin, Germany, Human rights, Islamic extremism, Kurds, Religious freedom, Syria, Turkey

The general secretary of the World Council of Churches (WCC), Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit, has condemned efforts to incite violence against people who practise other faiths as “abhorrent and ungodly”. “Freedom of religion is as much about Christian minorities in Muslim countries as it is about followers of Islam . . . Read More

Nepal to further tighten laws on religious conversion

April 6, 2018 Nepal Anti-conversion law, Kathmandu, Nepal, Religious freedom

Nepal is set to draft new laws and amend existing legal provisions to prevent religious conversions, reports local news site myrepublica.com. Home Minister Ram Bahadur Thapa said that, “through Christianity”, attempts were being made to “push the country into conflict”. “A new strategy should be devised to consolidate national unity,” . . . Read More

Kidnapped Leah sends message home

April 6, 2018 Nigeria Boko Haram, Children, Dapchi, Leah Sharibu, Nigeria

Leah Sharibu, 14, was abducted by Boko Haram on 19 February 2018. (Photo from family)

Leah Sharibu, the Nigerian Christian girl still being held captive by Boko Haram, reportedly asked her released friends to pass her mother a message, which read: “My mother you should not be disturbed. I know it is not easy missing me, but I want to assure you that I am . . . Read More

Iran: Jailed convert to Christianity refused medical treatment

April 6, 2018 Iran Converts, Evin Prison, Hadi Asgari, Iran, Naser Navard Gol-Tapeh, Tehran

Naser Navard Gol-Tapeh (Photo: Article 18)

An Iranian convert to Christianity currently serving 10 years in prison for “missionary activities” is being denied access to the medical treatment he needs, according to advocacy group Article 18. Naser Navard Gol-Tapeh was first arrested in June 2016 alongside three Azerbaijanis, after security agents raided a wedding party in . . . Read More

Vietnam jails Christian rights defender for 15 years

April 5, 2018 Vietnam Hanoi, Nguyen Ngoc Nhu Quynh, Nguyễn Trung Tôn, Nguyen Van Dai, Vietnam

Christian human rights' lawyer Nguyen Van Dai and his assistant were released and sent to Germany last week. (Photo: Open Doors International)

Christian human rights lawyer Nguyen Van Dai was jailed for 15 years today, 5 April, for activities “aimed at overthrowing the people’s administration”, as Reuters reported. His wife, Vu Minh Khanh, said she was “very disappointed” but that Dai will “continue to fight and will appeal the verdict”. Five other . . . Read More

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Egypt: Three arrested for plotting Easter attacks

UN religious-freedom rapporteur to assess Tunisia

Czech aid worker recounts torture by IS convicts in Sudan prison

The Mosul church that tells the story of a city

Museum recalls tenacity of Japan’s hidden Christians

World Council of Churches condemns persecution of other religions

Nepal to further tighten laws on religious conversion

Kidnapped Leah sends message home

Iran: Jailed convert to Christianity refused medical treatment

Vietnam jails Christian rights defender for 15 years

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