Tag: Sharia

Targeting of Egypt’s Copts condemned

September 17, 2013 Egypt Egypt, Islamic extremism, Sharia, Upper Egypt

Egypt’s National Council for Human Rights has condemned attacks on Christians in Upper Egypt, reports Ahram. The council said attacks on Christians, their homes and places and worship have proved that Christians are targeted because of their beliefs. Meanwhile, a spokesperson for the drafting committee responsible for the country’s new . . . Read More

Afghan MP wants converts executed

September 9, 2013 Afghanistan Afghanistan, Apostasy, Converts, Islamic extremism, Quran, Sharia

An Afghan MP has said that any Afghan who converts to Christianity should be executed, reports Mohabat News. MP Nazir Ahmad Hanafi said many Afghans have left the country to convert, with a particularly high number fleeing to India. “Afghan citizens continue to convert to Christianity in India,” he said. . . . Read More

Former Nigerian Governor allows ‘under-age’ marriage loophole into Constitution

July 23, 2013 Nigeria Christian Association of Nigeria, Constitution, Gombe, Lagos, Sharia, Zamfara

The first Governor to introduce sharia law into a Nigerian State (Zamfara, in 2000), now a Senator, has succeeded in stopping the removal of a clause from Nigeria’s Constitution, which critics say remains a loophole through which marriage of under-age girls remains possible under sharia law. It happened during the . . . Read More

Gender-based violence ‘wielded mercilessly’ in Muslim countries

June 13, 2013 Angela Merkel, Egypt, Iran, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Sharia

Jeddah, Saudi ArabiaWorld Watch Monitor The conclusion of a new report by the US Hudson Institute researcher Lela Gilbert is clear and unequivocal: gender-based violence plays a key strategic role in the plans of those who wish to eradicate Christians and Christian belief from Muslim lands. Gender-Based Violence as . . . Read More

Sudan President’s amnesty releases Christian woman

April 12, 2013 Sudan African Union, Darfur, Nyala, Omar al-Bashir, Port Sudan, Sharia

It has been a little more than a week since Salwa Fahmi Suleiman Gireis, a 64-year old Sudanese accountant has been released from prison on Tues 2nd April. She was detained without charge for 7 weeks by the Sudanese security services, following arrest from her home in Khartoum. Amnesty International . . . Read More

Widest church grouping raises funds for Boko Haram’s almost 800 victims during 2012

March 8, 2013 Nigeria Abuja, Bauchi, Boko Haram, Borno, Christian Association of Nigeria, Goodluck Jonathan, Jos, Kaduna, Kano, Maiduguri, Nigeria, Pentecostals, Sharia, West Africa, Yobe

The most dangerous country for a Christian to live during 2012 was, arguably, Nigeria. That’s what research for the 2013 edition of the World Watch List shows up: it’s produced by the global Christian organisation Open Doors, whose researchers monitor the persecution of Christians worldwide. “Between November 2011 and October . . . Read More

Hope in Mali rises with international military intervention

January 15, 2013 Mali Bamako, Burkina Faso, France, Gao, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Sharia, Timbuktu, Tuareg, West Africa

French troops have launched a military operation in Mali, aiming at stopping the advance of Islamists from their bases in the north to the South. The French intervention started on Friday, Jan. 11 with air strikes, and had enabled the Malian troops to regain control of the cental town of . . . Read More

Africa rises on World Watch List of worst persecutors

January 8, 2013 Global News -- No Particular Country Africa, Al-Qaeda, Arab Spring, Bashar al-Assad, Boko Haram, Egypt, Eritrea, Hindu nationalism, Islamic extremism, Kenya, Mali, Mao Zedong, Niger, Nigeria, Sharia, Somalia, Syria, Tanzania, Uganda

Africa, where Christianity spread fastest during the past century, now is the region where oppression of Christians is spreading fastest, a new report says. The two-year-old Arab Spring has toppled autocrats across Northern Africa, but it also has energized militant Islamist movements that have killed hundreds of Christians and endanger . . . Read More

Sudan border dispute brings destitution to thousands

November 19, 2012 Sudan Abyei, African Union, Dinka, Episcopal Church of Sudan, IDPs, Khartoum, Sharia, South Sudan, Sudan, Trauma

As politicians wrangle ahead of an early December deadline over the still-disputed status of the oil-rich region of Abyei, straddling the border of Sudan and South Sudan, local church leaders appeal for help in the face of a potential humanitarian crisis. Both governments have been asked to approve an African . . . Read More

Nigerian Christians on frontline vow to stay despite 40 ‘barbaric’ student deaths

October 17, 2012 Nigeria Adamawa, Boko Haram, Christian Association of Nigeria, Goodluck Jonathan, Nigeria, Sharia, Yola

President Goodluck Jonathan’s commiseration visit to relatives on Oct 15th, two weeks after the murder of about 40 students from three higher education institutions in Mubi, in Adamawa state, northern Nigeria, has failed to elucidate further the motive behind the deaths. What has become clear, however, is that the perpetrators . . . Read More

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