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Protests as Mumbai officials remove cross from ‘private land’

May 4, 2017 India Crosses, India, Mumbai

A local authority in Mumbai is being taken to the High Court over the removal of a 122-year-old cross that is reported to have stood on private land, reports New Delhi Television. The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) removed the cross in Bandra, a wealthy Mumbai suburb, on 29 April in . . . Read More

How Saudi Arabia promotes extremist Islam

May 2, 2017 Saudi Arabia Arabian Peninsula, Islamic extremism, Quran, Saudi Arabia, Wahhabism

Bangladesh approved the construction on its territory of 560 mosques on Wednesday, April 26. The project, financed by the Saudi government to the tune of over a billion dollars, worries advocates of secularism and representatives of various religious minorities. According to La Croix International, they fear these mosques might become . . . Read More

Nigeria: Bishop accuses authorities of inaction in face of ‘wave of terror’

May 2, 2017 Nigeria Boko Haram, Fulani herdsmen, Islamic extremism, Kaduna, Kafanchan, Nigeria, Terrorism

Bishop Joseph Danlami Bagobiri from Kafanchan in Nigeria visiting ACN International office in Königstein, 19th April 2016.

A Catholic Bishop has accused the authorities in Nigeria of the suspected supply of arms to an Islamist terrorist network, which he claims has infiltrated federal and state governments. Bishop Joseph Bagobiri of Kafanchan, Kaduna state, said he believed that the government has done little or nothing to stem “a . . . Read More

Four years on still no news of kidnapped Syrian bishops

April 28, 2017 Syria Boulos Yazigi, Greek Orthodox, Kidnapping, Syria, Yohanna Ibrahim

Four years on and no-one knows where kidnapped Greek Orthodox Bishop Boulos Yazigi is, as well as his colleague. Photo: Getty Images

At the fourth anniversary of their disappearance the whereabouts of two Syrian bishops is still unknown. Syriac Orthodox Mar Gregorios Yohanna Ibrahim and Greek Orthodox Boulos Yazigi were abducted on 22 April 2013. Several attempts to locate them have been so far unsuccessful. According to Asia News, Mgr Daniel Kourie, Syriac . . . Read More

500 children taken by Boko Haram from one northern Nigeria city

April 28, 2017 Nigeria Boko Haram, Borno, Chibok girls, Damasak, Kidnapping, Muhammadu Buhari, Nigeria, Refugees, Women

As thousands of refugees return home to northern Nigeria, they are discovering with dismay the scale of devastation left by Boko Haram. In Damasak (Borno State), a city once occupied by the Islamist extremists, hundreds of children are missing. Most of them were seized by Boko Haram in autumn 2014. . . . Read More

India: Kerala criticised for ‘disrespectful’ cross demolition

April 26, 2017 India Crosses, Kerala

The Catholic bishops in the Indian state of Kerala have condemned the demolition of a large hilltop cross erected in an area that has experienced large numbers of land grabs. “The demolition of the cross has pained the entire Christian community,” Varghese Vallikkat, deputy secretary general of the Kerala Catholic . . . Read More

Religious intolerance increasing, says Pew annual report

April 25, 2017 Global News -- No Particular Country China, Egypt, Europe, India, Nigeria, Pakistan, Religious freedom, Russia, Saudi Arabia

Europe is seeing an increase in government's engaging in harassment and use of force against religious groups. This is partly caused by a surge in migration.

A report released earlier this month by the Pew Research Center shows an increased intolerance towards religion by governments and societies alike in 2015. According to Pew’s annual report, restrictions on religious activities increased in 2015, as did harassment relating to religion. The global study, which included 198 countries, found . . . Read More

Copt’s forgiveness of husband’s killer stuns broadcaster

April 25, 2017 Egypt Alexandria, Copts, Palm Sunday

A woman whose husband died intercepting one of the suicide bombers who attacked churches in Egypt on Palm Sunday has told Egyptian TV she completely forgives his killer, causing the news anchor to exclaim that Copts “are made from a different substance”. Naseem Faheem, the guard at St. Mark’s Cathedral . . . Read More

Egypt: Sinai monastery attacker wore suicide belt

April 25, 2017 Egypt Copts, Islamic State, Sinai

One of the gunmen involved in the 18 April attack at a checkpoint close to St Catherine’s monastery, Mount Sinai, was wearing a belt of explosives that failed to detonate, reports Coptic news site Watani. The man – named by Egypt’s Interior Ministry as Abu-Faris al-Maghrabi – was shot dead . . . Read More

Government silence on IS’s genocide ’empowers oppressors’

April 24, 2017 Global News -- No Particular Country Genocide, Islamic State, UK

Desecrated church I in Qaraqosh, Iraq. (Photo: World Watch Monitor)

A British Member of Parliament has criticised the UK government for failing to declare the actions of Islamic State against Christians, Yazidis and others “genocide”, suggesting that this omission enables oppressors to act with impunity. Conservative MP Fiona Bruce, who proposed a motion in parliament exactly one year ago that . . . Read More

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Protests as Mumbai officials remove cross from ‘private land’

How Saudi Arabia promotes extremist Islam

Nigeria: Bishop accuses authorities of inaction in face of ‘wave of terror’

Four years on still no news of kidnapped Syrian bishops

500 children taken by Boko Haram from one northern Nigeria city

India: Kerala criticised for ‘disrespectful’ cross demolition

Religious intolerance increasing, says Pew annual report

Copt’s forgiveness of husband’s killer stuns broadcaster

Egypt: Sinai monastery attacker wore suicide belt

Government silence on IS’s genocide ’empowers oppressors’

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