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Egypt: death penalty for terrorists linked to beheading of 20 Copts

September 19, 2017 Egypt Copts, Egypt, Islamic State, Libya, Mohamed Morsi, Sinai

An Egyptian court has sentenced seven people to death for their links with the Islamic State (IS) group in Libya. An unspecified number of the condemned were accused of taking part in the beheading of 20 Egyptian Coptic Christians and a Ghanaian on a beach in Libya in 2015 – an . . . Read More

Number of North Koreans fleeing to South Korea drops by 13%

September 19, 2017 North Korea China, North Korea, Refugees, South Korea, Thailand

Barbed wire along the Yalu river which marks the border between China and North Korea. (Photo: World Watch Monitor)

The number of North Koreans who escaped to South Korea in the first half of this year dropped by 13 per cent compared to the same period last year, a government report shows. The report from South Korea’s Ministry of Unification said 780 North Koreans escaped between January and July . . . Read More

Award for man who brokered release of Chibok girls

September 19, 2017 Nigeria Chibok girls, Maiduguri, Nigeria, Rebecca Dali, Refugees, UN

Mr Mustapha and his son who in a nursery class at the school. Future Prowess Islamic Foundation School (I), Maiduguri, Borno State, Nigeria. 17 May 2017

A 58-year-old Nigerian lawyer who brokered the release of 82 Chibok girls taken hostage by Boko Haram has been named as the 2017 winner of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees’ (UNHCR) Nansen Refugee Award. Zannah Mustapha won the prestigious honour, which recognises extraordinary humanitarian work on behalf of . . . Read More

Indonesia: ‘Saudi influence behind rise in Islamic extremism’, as churches continue to be closed

September 19, 2017 Indonesia Banten, Bekasi, Bogor, Churches, Indonesia, Islamic extremism, Java, Nahdlatul Ulama, Pentecostals, Santa Clara, Saudi Arabia, Tangerang, Wahhabism

Thousands of Muslims from across Indonesia joined the Islamic-hardliners in Jakarta to protest against Jakarta’s (former) Governor Basuki Tjahaja Purnama ('Ahok') on 4 November 2016 for allegedly insulting Islam when citing a Quranic verse. (Photo: World Watch Monitor)

“The election and trial of Jakarta’s former governor ‘Ahok’ have exposed increasing radicalization in Indonesia, especially among the young … and it has led to a more aggressive campaign to confront Islamist radicalism,” writes Paul Marshall. In his article for the Lausanne Movement, the Wilson Professor of Religious Freedom at . . . Read More

Filipino priest Teresito Suganob free after 4 months as hostage

September 18, 2017 Philippines Abu Sayyaf, Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters, Islamic extremism, Marawi, Maute, Mindanao, Philippines, Rodrigo Duterte, Teresito Suganob

Fr. Teresito “Chito” Suganob in a still taken from a video shortly after his release.

Catholic Filipino priest Teresito “Chito” Suganob is finally free, having been held hostage by Islamic State-linked militants for almost four months in the war-torn city of Marawi. According to The New York Times, the priest was rescued late on Saturday (16 September) by the Philippines military, as it moved closer . . . Read More

Call for Eritrea’s ‘black Tuesday’ to be day of prayer

September 18, 2017 Eritrea Abune Antonios, Eritrea, Eritrean Orthodox Church, Pentecostals

If they're not Lutheran, evangelical women in Eritrea have to pray together in secret. (Photo: World Watch Monitor)

Eritrean Christians are calling for 18 September to be a special day of prayer and fasting, marking the Tuesday in September 2001 when the government began a clampdown on rights campaigners and journalists. “That was the day rights and freedoms were curtailed and comprehensive repression began in earnest in Eritrea,” said . . . Read More

EU urged to make religious freedom envoy permanent

September 18, 2017 Global News -- No Particular Country Europe, Jan Figel, Middle East, Religious freedom

Ján Figeľ, the European Union’s Special Envoy for freedom of religion or belief (FoRB) outside the EU, has had his 12-month mandate extended by another year, but it should be longer, reports EU news specialist Euractiv. According to Belgium-based Sophia Kuby, Director of European Union Advocacy for religious freedom campaigners . . . Read More

Saudi schoolbooks ‘teach students to hate those of other faiths’

September 18, 2017 Saudi Arabia Children, Education, Islamic extremism, Saudi Arabia, Sunni, USA

The Imam Turki Bin Abdullah Grand mosque in the capital Riyadh. (Photo: World Watch Monitor)

Students in Saudi Arabia’s schools receive religious education that “contains hateful and incendiary language” towards other Islamic traditions than Sunni Islam, and severe criticism of Jews, Christians and people of other faiths, a Human Rights Watch (HRW) report says. The comprehensive review of schoolbooks for religious studies for the 2016-17 . . . Read More

Women in Tunisia now free to marry spouse of choice

September 15, 2017 Tunisia Islamic extremism, Middle East, North Africa, Tunisia, Women

A group of women in Tunisia. (Photo: World Watch Monitor)

Women in Tunisia can now marry whomever they wish, even if their spouse is a non-Muslim, reports the BBC. The announcement today was made by the spokeswoman for President Beji Caid Essebsi. Previously, only men in the 99 per cent Muslim nation had the freedom to marry a non-Muslim, while, . . . Read More

India: senior Church leaders call on Modi to help ‘control ideological hatred’ in Jharkhand

September 15, 2017 India Anti-conversion law, BJP, Dalits, Himachal Pradesh, India, Jharkhand, Narendra Modi, Ram Nath Kovind, RSS

Hindu radicals burn a dummy replica of local Jharkhand Archbishop, Cardinal Telephore Toppo of Ranchi. (Photo: Catholic Bishops' Conference of India)

In a strongly worded open letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India (CBCI) called on him to intervene and “curb the spread of hate created by the BJP chief minister” of Jharkhand state. The letter follows the burning of a dummy replica of local Jharkhand . . . Read More

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Egypt: death penalty for terrorists linked to beheading of 20 Copts

Number of North Koreans fleeing to South Korea drops by 13%

Award for man who brokered release of Chibok girls

Indonesia: ‘Saudi influence behind rise in Islamic extremism’, as churches continue to be closed

Filipino priest Teresito Suganob free after 4 months as hostage

Call for Eritrea’s ‘black Tuesday’ to be day of prayer

EU urged to make religious freedom envoy permanent

Saudi schoolbooks ‘teach students to hate those of other faiths’

Women in Tunisia now free to marry spouse of choice

India: senior Church leaders call on Modi to help ‘control ideological hatred’ in Jharkhand

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