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N. Nigerian church attacked for ‘Friday’ services

July 18, 2016 Nigeria Blasphemy, Islamic extremism, Niger, Nigeria, Prophet Muhammad

A Catholic church in Niger State, northern Nigeria, was attacked by Muslim youths on Friday (15 July). Eyewitnesses told the Daily Post that people who had gone to the church to pray were attacked by Muslims claiming that Friday was their day of prayer and that Christians only had the . . . Read More

Assault at Egypt priest’s home kills 1, injures 3

July 18, 2016 Egypt Alexandria, Copts, Egypt, Minya

One Christian was killed and three others were injured in an assault at a Coptic priest’s family home, said a statement by the Diocese of Minya, 240km south of Cairo. “The family of two priests of Minya were subject to assault involving clubs and knives,” said the statement about the . . . Read More

14 million affected by Nigeria conflict

July 14, 2016 Nigeria Adamawa, Boko Haram, Borno, IDPs, Nigeria, Yobe

Boko Haram’s insurgency has created a severe humanitarian crisis in Nigeria’s north-eastern States of Borno, Yobe and Adamawa, says ACAPS, a Swiss-based research group, in its July . Over 14 million people are affected by conflict in these states and more than 10 million are in need, it says. Recent . . . Read More

Repeal of Indian law banning ‘extremists’ in government

July 13, 2016 India BJP, Hindu nationalism, India, Islamic extremism, Jamaat-e-Islami, Narendra Modi, RSS

Catholic leaders in India are calling for a over an that prevents central government employees belonging to specific Hindu and Muslim groups. The faith-based law, dating back to 1966, bans membership of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and Jamaat-e-Islami. Membership of , Narendra Modi, was not permitted for employees in central . . . Read More

US ‘indifferent’ to oppressed Christians

July 12, 2016 Genocide, Iraq, Islamic State, Syria, USA, Yazidis

The United States government is afraid to work directly with persecuted Christians in places like Iraq and Syria lest it be deemed a “crusader army”, according to a leading American religious rights advocate. Up until the day before the U.S. State Department declared the atrocities of the so-called Islamic State . . . Read More

Sudan charges 5 Christians over church dispute

July 11, 2016 Sudan Bahri, Blue Nile, Gadaref, Hassan Taour, Kuwa Shamal, Nuba Mountains, Omdurman, South Kordofan, Sudan

A Sudanese court has charged five Christians over their attempt to stop an illegal acquisition of church property, according to a Christian advocacy group. On 10 July, 14 members of the Evangelical Church in Bahri were charged before the Bahri Criminal Court. All were fined between 300 and 500 Sudanese . . . Read More

Motive unclear in attack on Copt priest’s daughter

July 8, 2016 Egypt Copts, Egypt, Sohag, Tanta

The reason why a 44-year-old government employee stabbed a local priest’s daughter outside a church in southern Egypt “remains unknown”, according to police sources. Lucia Murad, 14, survived a stab in the neck last weekend by a man identified by Watani only as “Muhammad T.E” in the bishopric of Sohag, 460km south . . . Read More

U.S. pins N Korea atrocities on Kim

July 6, 2016 North Korea Censorship, Kim Jong-Un, North Korea, USA

The U.S. government has, for the first time, officially pinned North Korea’s “serious human-rights abuses” upon Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un personally, as well as upon 14 high-ranking officials in the country’s military, security and party agencies. In a in Washington, D.C., the State Department laid at Kim’s feet the responsibility . . . Read More

Unprecedented Muslim prayer call at Haghia Sophia

July 5, 2016 Turkey Haghia Sophia, Islamic extremism, Istanbul, Turkey

In what called an “international incident,” a Turkish muezzin has for the first time in 85 years sounded the morning Muslim call to prayer from inside Istanbul’s historic Haghia Sophia. It was the first official Islamic use of the former cathedral and mosque since the ancient building was designated a . . . Read More

Kenyan pastor killed after running peace workshop

July 5, 2016 Kenya Al-Shabaab, Garissa, Islamic extremism, Kenya, Mandera, Nairobi, Somalia

A pastor was among the six people killed when gunmen attacked two buses on Friday in Kenya’s north-eastern region of Mandera, near the Somalia border. Pastor John Njaramba Kiruga, was returning home from facilitating a training on pursuing peace between Christian and Muslims in Garissa and Mandera, a volatile region where . . . Read More

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N. Nigerian church attacked for ‘Friday’ services

Assault at Egypt priest’s home kills 1, injures 3

14 million affected by Nigeria conflict

Repeal of Indian law banning ‘extremists’ in government

US ‘indifferent’ to oppressed Christians

Sudan charges 5 Christians over church dispute

Motive unclear in attack on Copt priest’s daughter

U.S. pins N Korea atrocities on Kim

Unprecedented Muslim prayer call at Haghia Sophia

Kenyan pastor killed after running peace workshop

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