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Pakistan court bans Valentine’s Day celebrations

February 13, 2017 Pakistan Islamabad, Islamic extremism, Pakistan

Pakistan’s Islamabad High Court has prohibited St Valentine’s Day celebrations in public spaces and government offices across the country “with immediate effect,” reports Dawn. Print and electronic media have also been warned to stop Valentine’s Day promotions. The orders came after a petition was submitted by Abdul Waheed, a member . . . Read More

Video: Christians begin Qaraqosh clean-up

February 13, 2017 Iraq Iraq, Islamic State, Nineveh Plains, Qaraqosh

Now that their city has been liberated from Islamic State (IS) fighters, Christian families have begun cleaning up Qaraqosh in a bid to reclaim their lives in northern Iraq. One of the first jobs is removing IS graffiti, reports Al Jazeera English. “The writing on the wall is just superficial. It . . . Read More

UN says 600,000 in need of food aid in S. Kordofan

February 10, 2017 Sudan Barack Obama, Blue Nile, Petr Jašek, Sanctions, South Kordofan, SPLM-N, Sudan, USA

A political impasse is delaying the delivery of aid to 600,000 people in need in Sudan’s war-torn South Kordofan region, writes Nuba Reports in the Huffington Post. Sudan has been bombing rebel groups based there, as well as destroying farmland and crops. Hope came from an agreed six-month ceasefire extension . . . Read More

Myanmar pastors charged with ‘aiding rebels’

February 10, 2017 Myanmar Baptists, Kachin, Myanmar, Shan

Two Kachin Baptist Convention (KBC) pastors have been charged with aiding rebels in Myanmar’s eastern Shan State, reports Crux. Dom Dawng Nawng Lat, 65, and La Jaw Gam Hseng, 35, are accused of being “informers and spreading false news on behalf of the armed insurgents”, according to Myanmar’s state news . . . Read More

Pakistan law amendments help protect Christians

February 9, 2017 Pakistan Children, Marriage, Minorities, Pakistan, Terrorism

Forced conversions, mob violence and sectarianism will no longer go unpunished after Pakistan’s National Assembly passed a bill on 6 February amending some of its criminal laws. The amended law on forced marriage for minority religious groups now applies to minors as well as women, with the punishment more severe . . . Read More

Niger: Christians and Muslims fighting radicalism

February 9, 2017 Niger Charlie Hebdo, Islamic extremism, Maradi, Niger, Nigeria, Zinder

January 2015 saw a murderous attack on the offices of French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris, which killed 12 journalists. In Niger, as in much of the Muslim world, protests against the work of Charlie Hebdo, which was claimed to have insulted Islam’s prophet, became violent, as more than . . . Read More

Kaduna deaths – Nigeria army complicit?

February 9, 2017 Nigeria Fulani herdsmen, Islamic extremism, Kaduna, Kafanchan, Middle Belt, Nigeria

Does anyone hear? Does anyone care? The UK ‘Spectator’ reporter Douglas Murray is dismayed after visiting northern and Middle Belt Nigeria, where he found communities torn apart by a conflict that has been allowed alternately to simmer and rage, for years, without intervention. In the last couple of months the . . . Read More

DRC – more reports allege ‘caliphate’ in N. Kivu

February 9, 2017 Democratic Republic of the Congo ADF, Beni, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Islamic extremism, North Kivu, Sharia

The International Business Times UK writes about the apparent Islamic agenda of the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) operating in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. World Watch Monitor recently highlighted a UN report stating the same concern. Three decades since its start in Uganda in the 1990s, “the mysterious rebel . . . Read More

New arrest of Vietnamese Christian rights activist

February 8, 2017 Vietnam Communism, Nguyen Van Oai, Religion Law, Vietnam

Vietnamese Christian rights activist Nguyen Van Oai was arrested last month for “resisting officials on duty” and violating his probation. Police arrested Van Oai on 19 January and accused him of breaking his probation terms when he left his locality for a fishing trip, according to the website of the . . . Read More

Photographer tells stories of ‘Boko Haram girls’

February 7, 2017 Nigeria Boko Haram, Nigeria, Women, Yola

A photographer given access to some of the most vulnerable victims of Boko Haram has produced a set of striking images to help tell their story. Chris de Bode, who specialises in covering humanitarian stories, visited Yola in north-eastern Nigeria for the Dutch Relief Alliance, a coalition of 14 Dutch . . . Read More

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Catching Our Eye

Catching Our Eye

Pakistan court bans Valentine’s Day celebrations

Video: Christians begin Qaraqosh clean-up

UN says 600,000 in need of food aid in S. Kordofan

Myanmar pastors charged with ‘aiding rebels’

Pakistan law amendments help protect Christians

Niger: Christians and Muslims fighting radicalism

Kaduna deaths – Nigeria army complicit?

DRC – more reports allege ‘caliphate’ in N. Kivu

New arrest of Vietnamese Christian rights activist

Photographer tells stories of ‘Boko Haram girls’

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