Tag: Sharia

Priests released amid wave of abductions in Sudan

February 15, 2012 Sudan Episcopal Church of Sudan, Khartoum, Omar al-Bashir, Sharia, South Kordofan, South Sudan, Sudan

Two Catholic priests abducted at gunpoint in Rabak, Sudan last month have been released amid a wave of forcible conscriptions into rebel southern militias. Their captors – South Sudanese militiamen loyal to (north) Sudan’s Islamic government – accused the Rev. Joseph Makwey and the Rev. Sylvester Mogga of ties to . . . Read More

Two Catholic priests kidnapped in Sudan

January 25, 2012 Sudan Darfur, Khartoum, Kosti, Omar al-Bashir, Sharia, South Sudan, Sudan

Sudanese militia loyal to Sudan’s Islamic government have kidnapped two Catholic priests in Rabak, Christian sources said. A large truck smashed through the gates of the St. Josephine Bakhita’s Catholic Church compound in Rabak, 260 kilometers (162 miles) south of Khartoum, on Jan. 15 at 10 p.m., and the assailants broke . . . Read More

Police beat, arrest evangelist in Sudan

January 20, 2012 Sudan Khartoum, Sharia, South Sudan, Sudan, Sudan Presbyterian Evangelical Church

Police this week beat and arrested a church leader in Khartoum, sources told World Watch Monitor. James Kat of the Evangelical Church of Sudan was arrested on Tuesday morning (Jan. 17), with officers beating him as they took him to a North Division police station, the sources said. He was . . . Read More

Tensions rise in Kashmir after ‘guilty verdict,’ fatwa

January 20, 2012 India Baptism, Converts, India, Jammu and Kashmir, Sharia

Christian workers are fleeing India’s Kashmir Valley after a sharia (Islamic law) court issued a “guilty verdict” against three Christian leaders, issued a fatwa against Christian schools and allegedly launched a door-to-door campaign to bring converts back to Islam. The court, which has no legal authority, found the Rev. Chander . . . Read More

Sudan threatens to arrest church leaders

January 18, 2012 Sudan Darfur, Khartoum, Kosti, Nuba Mountains, Omar al-Bashir, Sharia, South Kordofan, South Sudan, Sudan, Sudan Presbyterian Evangelical Church, Sudanese Church of Christ

Sudan’s Ministry of Guidance and Religious Endowments has threatened to arrest church leaders if they carry out evangelistic activities and do not comply with an order for churches to provide their names and contact information, Christian sources said. The warning in a Jan. 3 letter to church leaders of the . . . Read More

Muslim extremists in Uganda throw acid on bishop

December 28, 2011 Uganda Acid attacks, East Africa, Jinja, Kadhi courts, Kampala, Sharia, Uganda

Islamic extremists threw acid on a church leader on Christmas Eve shortly after a seven-day revival at his church, leaving him with severe burns that have blinded one eye and threaten sight in the other. Bishop Umar Mulinde, 37, a sheikh (Islamic teacher) before his conversion to Christianity, was attacked . . . Read More

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