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Birthday for a missing girl

  July 17, 2015 Iraq Assyrians, Christina Abada, Islamic State, Kidnapping, Kurds

July 18 is Christina Khader Abada’s birthday. She’s 4. Her family won’t have a party for her. A soldier of the Islamic State took Christina from the arms of her mother nearly a year ago, and nothing has been heard about the girl since. “My biggest joy would be when . . . Read More

Are Nigeria’s ‘Middle Belt’ Christians victims of ethnic cleansing?

  July 13, 2015 Nigeria Berom, Boko Haram, Fulani herdsmen, Nigeria, West Africa

It has been a deadly July in Nigeria. More than 200 people have been killed since June 30 in attacks that have come almost daily in the country's northern and northeastern regions, stronghold of the militant Islamic sect Boko Haram.

Are Nigeria’s ‘Middle Belt’ Christians victims of ethnic cleansing?

  July 12, 2015 Nigeria Berom, Boko Haram, Fulani herdsmen, West Africa

March 2014 attacks in Kaduna state, in central Nigeria, left more than 114 people dead and many houses burned.World Watch Monitor   It has been a deadly July in Nigeria. More than 200 people have been killed since June 30 in attacks that have come almost daily in the country’s . . . Read More

How does a man kill ‘in God’s name’? asks former UK Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks

  July 8, 2015 Islamic extremism, London, Terrorism

A vital text in winning the peace’ – Sacks’ new bookHodder & Stoughton Ten years on from the 7/7 London bombings, in which 52 people were killed and hundreds were injured by four separate suicide bombers, the world is still looking for an answer as to why religious people kill . . . Read More

Boko Haram victim ‘left for dead’ in 2012 loses sister and her two children in church bomb

  July 7, 2015 Nigeria Boko Haram, Borno, Chibok girls, Churches, Jigawa, Jos, Muhammadu Buhari, Nigeria, Potiskum, Sabon Gari, Yobe, Zaria

The sister of a man whose miraculous survival from a shot in the head by Boko Haram took him to testify to the US Congress, has been killed with two of her children. Tabita Adamu, 44, her 18-year-old daughter, Haske, and 11-year-old son, Nuhu died in the July 5 bomb . . . Read More

Police rescue Pakistani Christian from ‘mob justice’ over blasphemy

  July 3, 2015 Pakistan Blasphemy, Faisalabad, Farooqabad, Lahore, Quran, Seventh-day Adventists

Rukhsana and other family members were beaten and had their faces blackened by an angry mob, June 2015World Watch Monitor   A Christian father of four was beaten, had his head shaved, his face blackened, and was dragged through his Pakistan village before he was rescued by police June 30. . . . Read More

S Sudan pastors will face trial, judge rules

  July 2, 2015 Sudan Bahri, Peter Yen, Sharia, Yat Michael

A Sudanese judge has decided enough evidence exists to require two South Sudanese Presbyterian pastors to face trial on espionage and other charges that could carry the death penalty, according to a US-based religious-freedom group. The American Center for Law & Justice reported late Thursday that the judge made the . . . Read More

Egyptian solider, the only Christian in his unit, found dead

  July 1, 2015 Egypt Conscripts, Copts, Egypt, Suez

The facts are these: Bahaa Gamal Mikhail Silvanus, 23 and a conscript in the Egyptian Army, was found dead June 24 in a chair in the office of the military base where he was stationed. There were two bullet wounds in his chest, and a gun at his feet. One . . . Read More

Modi’s UN Yoga Day latest example of co-incidence with Christian ‘high days and holidays’

  June 29, 2015 India BJP, Good Governance Day, Himachal Pradesh, Mizoram, Narendra Modi, Shimla, UN

Thousands in India celebrated the first International Day of Yoga, 21 JuneFB/Narendra Modi   As you may have seen, June 21 was the first-ever International Yoga Day, observed from New Delhi to New York. In yoga’s birthplace, India Prime Minister Narendra Modi himself led a yoga session attended by 37,000 . . . Read More

Case of the disappearing Christian CDs: 7 years on, Malaysian court orders their return

  June 24, 2015 Malaysia 'Allah', Borneo, Catholics, Hudud, Jill Ireland, Kelantan, Kuala Lumpur, Lawrence Andrew, Malaysia, Petaling Jaya, Sabah, Sarawak

After a seven-year battle through the courts, yesterday (23 June) Jill Ireland, a Malaysian Christian finally won the right to re-gain her CDs of worship songs which include the word ‘Allah’. The Malaysian Court of Appeal ordered its Government to return the spiritual material to Ms Ireland. Her appeal had . . . Read More