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Islam to overtake Christianity as world’s largest religion by 2070?

March 17, 2017 Asia-Pacific, India, Indonesia, Islamic extremism, Middle East, North Africa, RSS, Vishva Hindu Parishad

Islam is the world’s second-largest religion, after Christianity, but this could change if current demographic trends continue, as Islam would overtake Christianity by 2070, reports the BBC. New reporting from the US-based Pew Research Center shows that Islam is the fastest growing major religion. The reason, it says, is simply . . . Read More

South Korean pastors arrested for helping North Korean defectors

March 16, 2017 South Korea China, North Korea, Seoul, South Korea, USA

North Korean soldiers patrol the Yalu River on the Chinese-North Korean border

Two South Korean pastors have been arrested by Chinese police for giving protection to North Korean defectors in China, reports the South Korean news agency, Yonhap. The anti-North Korean campaign group, Justice for North Korea, said that the two pastors were helping defectors at risk of being repatriated. The pastors . . . Read More

Bangladesh church stabbing ‘not’ Islamic extremism

March 16, 2017 Bangladesh Bangladesh, Islamic extremism

St. Rita’s Catholic Church of Mothurapur, 2014
Photo: ucanews

Police have brushed aside accusations that Islamic extremism is behind the stabbing of a church security guard in northern Bangladesh, saying the guard had a “personal feud” with his attackers, reports UCANews. Local Catholics, however, have refused to accept the police’s explanation for the incident at St Rita’s church in Mothurapur, . . . Read More

Copts still homeless months after homes burnt down

March 16, 2017 Egypt Copts, Egypt, El-Arish, Kom El-Loufy, Minya, Sinai

Makeshift church in Minya burned down by extremists
Photo: Wataninet

In July last year, four Coptic homes were set on fire in a village 230km south of Cairo, following rumours the Copts planned to turn one of the houses into a church. Eight months later, the Copts – two brothers, Ashraf and Ibrahim Khalaf, and their families – are still . . . Read More

360° view of forgotten war in Sudan’s Nuba Mountains

March 16, 2017 Sudan Abdulmonem Abdumawla, Hassan Taour, Nuba Mountains, Petr Jašek, Religious freedom, Sharia, South Kordofan, Sudan, Trauma

News agency IRIN has produced a video that offers a 360° view of the situation of the people of the Nuba Mountains in South Kordofan, a state in southern Sudan. (To experience a 360° view, play video, then “move” view by hovering your mouse.) The Nuba people, living on the border with . . . Read More

Sunni Arabs ‘helped drive out’ Middle East Christians

March 13, 2017 Iraq, Islamic State, Middle East, Mosul, Nineveh Plains, Rape, Sunni, Syria

Amid the push by Iraqi government forces to retake Mosul from Islamic State (IS), some former inhabitants of Christian villages in the Nineveh Plains and northern Syria are refusing to go back because they believe their former Sunni Muslim neighbours were complicit in driving them out, says Middle East analyst . . . Read More

‘Freedom of religion or belief must be protected’

March 10, 2017

Countries around the world are urged to act now to promote and protect the right to freedom of religion or belief by a UN expert. The Special Rapporteur, Ahmed Shaheed, made his appeal at the Human Rights Council in Geneva, as he set out his priorities for the mandate of . . . Read More

Iraq urged to allow UN investigation into genocide

March 10, 2017 Iraq Genocide, Iraq, Islamic State, Jizya, Middle East, Rape, Torture, UN, Yazidis

International human rights lawyer Amal Clooney has called upon the Iraqi government to allow a UN investigation into the treatment of Yazidis by the so-called Islamic State (IS), reports Reuters. A year ago, the UK Parliament joined US Secretary of State John Kerry, the US House of Representatives, the EU . . . Read More

Iranian mother and son Christian converts arrested

March 9, 2017 Iran Converts, Iran

An Iranian mother and son who converted to Christianity have been arrested in the north-western province of West Azerbaijan. Anousheh Reza-Bakhsh (known as Veronika) and her son Soheil (known as Augustine) were arrested on 20 February at their home in Urmia, the provincial capital. Mohabat News reports that it is . . . Read More

Pope: ‘persecutors don’t care about denominations’

March 8, 2017

Pope Francis has urged all Christians to pray for fellow believers who are persecuted for their faith, saying that “those who persecute them make no distinction between the religious communities to which they belong”. “How many people are being persecuted because of their faith, forced to abandon their homes, their . . . Read More

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Catching Our Eye

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Islam to overtake Christianity as world’s largest religion by 2070?

South Korean pastors arrested for helping North Korean defectors

Bangladesh church stabbing ‘not’ Islamic extremism

Copts still homeless months after homes burnt down

360° view of forgotten war in Sudan’s Nuba Mountains

Sunni Arabs ‘helped drive out’ Middle East Christians

‘Freedom of religion or belief must be protected’

Iraq urged to allow UN investigation into genocide

Iranian mother and son Christian converts arrested

Pope: ‘persecutors don’t care about denominations’

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