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Court upholds Vietnamese Christian blogger’s 5-year jail sentence

January 18, 2018 Vietnam Corruption, Nguyen Van Oai, Vietnam

A Vietnamese provincial court on Tuesday upheld the five-year jail sentence of Christian blogger and activist Nguyen Van Oai. Van Oai was sentenced at the People’s Court in the town Hoàng Mai in September to a five-year jail term and four years’ house arrest for resisting a public official and . . . Read More

India: Catholic schools under pressure in Madhya Pradesh

January 17, 2018 India Bajrang Dal, BJP, Catholics, Education, Hindu nationalism, India, Madhya Pradesh, Narendra Modi

A Catholic school in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh has received threats from Hindu nationalists, who claim children at the school were punished for singing patriotic songs – the third school to come under pressure this month. The nationalists claimed around 30 students at the St. Joseph Convent . . . Read More

‘Chibok girl’ asks parents to ‘embrace Islam’ in Boko Haram video

January 15, 2018 Nigeria Boko Haram, Borno, Chibok girls, Nigeria

Boko Haram has released a video purporting to show some of the Chibok schoolgirls still in captivity. “In the video, a girl dressed in a full niqab [Islamic dress] appeals to her parents to embrace Islam,” the BBC’s Stephanie Hegarty reports. “Dressed in a blue and white niqab, the young . . . Read More

Egypt church celebrates long-awaited official opening

January 15, 2018 Egypt Churches, Copts, Egypt, Islamic extremism, Islamic State, Minya, Pope Tawadros II

Members of the Holy Virgin and Mar Girgis church staged a sit-in to protest the closure of their church in October. (Photo: Watani)

A Coptic church in Minya, Upper Egypt, was officially allowed to open last week for the first time since it was built in 2015, and three months after clashes with local Muslims had forced it to close indefinitely. The Holy Virgin and Mar Girgis church in the village of Sheikh . . . Read More

Iran: Wife of convicted pastor gets jail sentence of her own

January 12, 2018 Iran Amin Afshar Naderi, Hadi Asgari, Iran, Ramil Bet-Tamraz, Shamiram Isavi Khabizeh, Victor Bet-Tamraz

Shamiram Isavi Khabizeh, the wife of Victor Bet-Tamraz

The wife of an Iranian pastor sentenced to ten years in jail has been given a five-year sentence of her own. Shamiram Isavi Khabizeh, the wife of Victor Bet-Tamraz, was convicted of “acting against national security and against the regime by organising small groups, attending a seminary abroad and training . . . Read More

Nigeria: British missionary’s kidnapper killed

January 12, 2018 Nigeria Delta State, Ian Squire, Kidnapping, Nigeria

The Nigerian Army says the leader of a gang responsible for the death of a British aid worker has been killed, the BBC reports. Peregbakumo Oyawerikumo was arrested by a special military task force. According to the army that task force was then ambushed on its way back to the . . . Read More

Prominent China church demolished – second in month

January 12, 2018 China China, Churches, Communism, House churches, Protestants, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Three-Self Patriotic Movement, Xinjiang

Explosives are set off in the Golden Lampstand Church in Linfen, Shanxi province, in a still taken from a video.

Chinese authorities demolished a church in northern China this week, the second in less than a month, ahead of new regulations on religion due to come into force on 1 February. Explosives were set off inside the Golden Lampstand Church in Linfen, Shanxi province on Tuesday (9 January). According to . . . Read More

US and UN strike $55 million deal for Iraq’s religious minorities

January 12, 2018 Iraq Iraq, Islamic State, Minorities, Nineveh Plains, UN, USA

Iraqi families like that of 12-year old Noeh will receive assistance in returning home after they fled IS. (Photo: World Watch Monitor)

Ethnic and religious minorities in northern Iraq are set to receive assistance worth US $55 million from the UN’s international development agency (UNDP), funded by the US government. USAID, the development agency of the US government, said the money would be used to help minorities living in parts of Iraq . . . Read More

Chinese priest missing after ‘brief chat’ with authorities

January 11, 2018 China China, Peter Shao Zhumin, Protestants, Wenzhou, Zhejiang

China's Communist Party is trying to suppress rapid growth among religions.(Photo: World Watch Monitor)

A Chinese priest has been missing from his home town in China’s eastern Zhejiang province since government officials took him away just after Christmas “for a brief chat”. Father Lu Danhua was taken from a priest’s dormitory on 29 December by officials of the State Administration for Religious Affairs to . . . Read More

Syria: Damascus churches damaged as Christian neighbourhoods hit

January 11, 2018 Syria Churches, Damascus, Syria, UN

Church in the old city of Damascus, an area that is currently under attack from rebel held positions on outskirts of the city. (Photo: World Watch Monitor, 2008)

Two churches have been damaged in a fresh escalation of fighting in the Syrian capital, Damascus. Dozens of shells were fired from the rebel-held enclave of Goutha East on Tuesday (9 January), in the space of just a few hours, “at random” and without a specific goal, witnesses told AsiaNews. . . . Read More

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Court upholds Vietnamese Christian blogger’s 5-year jail sentence

India: Catholic schools under pressure in Madhya Pradesh

‘Chibok girl’ asks parents to ‘embrace Islam’ in Boko Haram video

Egypt church celebrates long-awaited official opening

Iran: Wife of convicted pastor gets jail sentence of her own

Nigeria: British missionary’s kidnapper killed

Prominent China church demolished – second in month

US and UN strike $55 million deal for Iraq’s religious minorities

Chinese priest missing after ‘brief chat’ with authorities

Syria: Damascus churches damaged as Christian neighbourhoods hit

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