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IS blows up Assyrian church near Mosul

October 10, 2016 Iraq Assyrians, Iraq, Islamic State, Karamles, Mosul, Nineveh Plains

An Assyrian church in Iraq’s north-eastern Nineveh Plains was on Sunday (9 October) the latest to be destroyed by “the Islamic State” (IS), as the jihadist group continues to face losses on the ground. St. Barbara Fouq Attal (on-the-Hill) was blown up when IS fighters “detonated a number of explosive . . . Read More

Muslim ‘had to kill sister’ for marrying Christian

October 7, 2016 Pakistan Islamic extremism, Lahore, Marriage, Pakistan, Women

A young Pakistani Muslim who killed his sister for marrying a Christian – even though her new husband had converted to Islam “out of love” – has said he had “no choice”. Mubeen Rajhu, 24, from Lahore, is the subject of the . He killed his sister, Tasleem, who was . . . Read More

Erdogan: ‘Only Sunni Muslims should live in Mosul’

October 7, 2016 Al-Qaeda, Ankawa, Arabs, Assyrians, Erbil, IDPs, Iraq, Islamic State, Mosul, Qatar, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Saudi Arabia, Sunni, Turkey

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has declared that only Sunni Muslims should be allowed to live in the second largest Iraqi city of Mosul once it has been liberated from Islamic State control. Interviewed by Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi on the Saudi Arabia-based TV station Rotana Khalejia on 2 Oct., . . . Read More

India: gang murder man in church

October 6, 2016 India Chennai, India, Pentecostals

Police have arrested eight members of a gang in connection with the killing on 2 October of a man hacked to death inside a church near Chennai, . G. Dhanasekaran, a Pentecostal Christian involved in local politics and who ran a real estate business, was at a service at Devasabha Church on the day . . . Read More

Pakistan bishop praises reward for Muslim guards

October 6, 2016 Pakistan Pakistan, Peshawar, Taliban

A Pakistani bishop has thanked the army chief for rewarding two Muslim security guards who helped foil a Taliban attack on a Christian colony in Peshawar last month. A Christian cleaner, Samuel Masih, was killed, but two security guards helped fight off four suicide bombers, before the army arrived. General . . . Read More

Four Copts, including child, abducted for ransom

October 5, 2016 Egypt Asyut, Children, Copts, Egypt, Kidnapping, Qena

Four Christians, including a child, on Sunday (2 Oct.) became the latest of hundreds of Egypt’s Copts to fall victim to kidnapping and extortion. Brothers Emad and Ramy Lamei, both day labourers, together with their relative Marzouq Ashamallah and his nine-year-old son Amir, were lured with the promise of a . . . Read More

‘Apocalyptic’ battle for Dabiq, Syria ‘imminent’

October 4, 2016 Syria Al-Qaeda, Dabiq, Islamic extremism, Islamic State, Prophet Muhammad, Syria

US-backed Syrian rebels are reported to be closing in on the northern Syrian town of Dabiq, which holds major significance for ISIS as the location of a prophesied battle it believes will lead to the end of the world. It’s about 40km (25 miles) north-east of Aleppo and 10km (6.2km) . . . Read More

Women in Boko Haram fighting, not just cooking

October 4, 2016 Nigeria Boko Haram, Nigeria, Women

Female members of the radical Islamic group Boko Haram are almost as likely as men to be deployed as fighters in northeast Nigeria, challenging a widespread perception that these women are mainly used as cooks, sex slaves and suicide bombers, shows a new study published on 3 Oct. While men . . . Read More

Kurdish YPG ‘occupy’ Assyrian villages in northeast Syria

October 4, 2016 Syria Assyrians, Chaldeans, Hasakah, Islamic State, Khabur, Kurds, Syria

As fighting intensifies to retake areas of north-eastern Syria from the so-called Islamic State (IS), the media spotlight shows the complexity of the military picture. The Khabur River region in Syria’s Hasakah province was attacked by IS in February 2015. Thirty-five Assyrian villages were emptied; days later IS kidnapped and . . . Read More

Church split as Colombians reject FARC deal

October 3, 2016 Colombia Colombia, FARC

The saga rolls on. After four years of peace talks and more than half a century of armed conflict, the Colombian people have rejected the government’s negotiated truce with the country’s largest rebel group, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). Since its inception in 1964, the FARC has – . . . Read More

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IS blows up Assyrian church near Mosul

Muslim ‘had to kill sister’ for marrying Christian

Erdogan: ‘Only Sunni Muslims should live in Mosul’

India: gang murder man in church

Pakistan bishop praises reward for Muslim guards

Four Copts, including child, abducted for ransom

‘Apocalyptic’ battle for Dabiq, Syria ‘imminent’

Women in Boko Haram fighting, not just cooking

Kurdish YPG ‘occupy’ Assyrian villages in northeast Syria

Church split as Colombians reject FARC deal

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