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Prosecutor in Youhanabad lynching case found guilty of trying to convert 42 Christians

May 31, 2017 Pakistan Lahore, Punjab, Youhanabad

Location where a mob burnt alive two men in angry reaction to twin church suicide bomb attacks in Youhanabad, March 2015. (Photo: World Watch Monitor)

The Pakistani prosecutor who allegedly offered to release Christians in the Youhanabad lynching trial if they converted to Islam has been found guilty of proselytising, reports Dawn. Syed Anees Shah, the deputy district public prosecutor (DDPP), was suspended when the allegation came to light during a hearing in March 2017, . . . Read More

Muslims clean up Mosul monastery desecrated by IS

May 31, 2017 Iraq Islamic State, Mosul

A church in an Iraqi district once terrorised by the Islamic State group has been restored with the help of local Muslims. Residents were horrified after reports claimed Christians were facing abuse even after IS had been chased out of their part of the city. Volunteers said they wanted to . . . Read More

Al-Shabaab sex-slave programme to ‘breed next generation of fighters’

May 31, 2017 Kenya Al-Shabaab, Garissa, Mombasa, Somalia, Women

A Kenyan woman searching for her two brothers, suspected of joining the Al-Qaeda-affiliated militants Al-Shabaab, has discovered that women are being seized and trafficked by the group as sex slaves. Her findings are revealed in the BBC report, The sex slaves of al-Shabab. During her search, Salama Ali uncovered stories . . . Read More

North Korea’s ‘Christian university’ in balancing act with regime

May 30, 2017 North Korea Hyeon Soo Lim, Kim Dong Chul, Kim Hak Song, Kim Jong-Un, Otto Warmbier, Pyongyang University of Science and Technology, Tony Kim

At a time when North Korea is flexing its military muscles and clamping down on anything that could threaten the rule of leader Kim Jong-un – including religion – the only private university in the country is run by evangelical Christians, explains the New York Times. Pyongyang University of Science and Technology . . . Read More

Bomb found outside Cairo church

May 30, 2017 Egypt Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, Cairo, Copts, El-Arish, Helwan, Islamic State, Minya, Port Said

A bomb was found outside an Egyptian church just south of the capital, Cairo, yesterday (29 May), according to Coptic news site Watani. A guard reportedly found the bomb inside a paper box by the gate to the Anba-Barsoum al-Erian Monastery, in the Greater Cairo city of Helwan, and “quickly . . . Read More

Trump calls on Arab, Muslim leaders to end ‘slaughter of Christians’

May 22, 2017 Saudi Arabia Donald Trump, Islamic extremism, Middle East, Riyadh

U.S. President Donald Trump addressed the Arab Islamic American Summit in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on Sunday, 21 May. He mentioned the situation for Christians in the Middle East twice during his remarks: “Numerous Arab and Islamic scholars have eloquently argued that protecting equality strengthens Arab and Muslim communities. For many centuries, . . . Read More

Chibok escapee ‘not one of 276’, exactly a year after first girl found. 113 still missing

May 19, 2017 Nigeria Boko Haram, Chibok girls, Nigeria

A lone schoolgirl abducted from Chibok in north-eastern Nigeria by the militant Islamist group Boko Haram has managed to escape, and has been found by Nigeria’s government troops earlier this week, reports the BBC. However, although from the same school as the 276 kidnapped in one night April 14, 2014, she was . . . Read More

‘We have failed to protect non-Muslims’ – Pakistan government spokesman

May 18, 2017 Pakistan Islamic extremism, Punjab

An official from Pakistan’s Punjab province has acknowledged that the authorities have failed to protect Christians and other non-Muslims from Islamic extremists. “The intolerance, anger on religious matters and culture of lynching disturbs us,” Punjab government spokesman Malik Muhammad Ahmad Khan told journalists and activists at a 12 May discussion in . . . Read More

Trump presses Turkish president to release jailed US pastor

May 17, 2017 Turkey Andrew Brunson, Ankara, Coup, Donald Trump, Fethullah Gülen, Izmir, Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Andrew Brunson in a photo provided by his family.

US President Donald Trump has raised the issue of a US pastor imprisoned in Turkey during his first face-to-face meeting with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in Washington DC, reports CNN. According to the American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ), both President Trump and Vice President Mike Pence spoke . . . Read More

India: rise in vigilantism threatens minorities

May 16, 2017 India Beef, BJP, Hindu nationalism, Hindu Yuva Vahini, Uttar Pradesh

A marked rise in vigilante incidents against couples in inter-faith relationships is a cause for concern in Uttar Pradesh, the northern Indian state where the ruling Hindu nationalist BJP recently enjoyed massive electoral success, reports the Woolf Institute, a UK-based interfaith research unit. It says incidents like the lynching on 2 May . . . Read More

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Prosecutor in Youhanabad lynching case found guilty of trying to convert 42 Christians

Muslims clean up Mosul monastery desecrated by IS

Al-Shabaab sex-slave programme to ‘breed next generation of fighters’

North Korea’s ‘Christian university’ in balancing act with regime

Bomb found outside Cairo church

Trump calls on Arab, Muslim leaders to end ‘slaughter of Christians’

Chibok escapee ‘not one of 276’, exactly a year after first girl found. 113 still missing

‘We have failed to protect non-Muslims’ – Pakistan government spokesman

Trump presses Turkish president to release jailed US pastor

India: rise in vigilantism threatens minorities

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